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Ruining Lives
'' Ruining Lives ''is the ninth studio album by American metal band Prong. Released on April 23, 2014, the album was produced by Tommy Victor and Steve Evetts. On April 29, 2014, a lyric video was released for the song "Turnover". Track listing All lyrics written by Tommy Victor. # "Turnover" (Tommy Victor, Chris Collier) # "The Barriers" (Victor, Collier) # "Windows Shut" (Victor, Collier) # "Remove, Separate Self" (Victor, Collier) # "Ruining Lives" (Victor, Jason Christopher, Alexei Rodrigues) # "Absence of Light" (Victor, Collier) # "The Book of Change" (Victor, Collier) # "Self Will Run Riot" (Victor, Collier) # "Come to Realize" (Victor, Collier) # "Chamber of Thought" (Victor, Collier, Justin Manning) # "Limitations and Validations" (Victor, Collier) # "Retreat" (bonus track on digipak and double-vinyl releases) (Victor, Collier) Personnel *Tommy Victor Thomas M. Victor (born 1961/1962) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known a ...
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Prong (band)
Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in New York City in 1986. The band is fronted by guitarist/vocalist Tommy Victor, Prong's sole constant member. To date, they have released 12 studio albums (including a covers album), one live album, four EPs, one DVD and one remix album. Prong had two independent releases, '' Primitive Origins'' (1987) and '' Force Fed'' (1989), which attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the band in 1989. Their first two albums on Epic, '' Beg to Differ'' (1990) and '' Prove You Wrong'' (1991), were released to critical acclaim and garnered attention on MTV's '' Headbangers Ball''. The band's 1994 album '' Cleansing'' was also successful, and included one of their well-known songs "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck". After releasing one more album ('' Rude Awakening'' in 1996), Prong disbanded in 1997, but reformed in 2002 and has continued to tour and record since then. History Early days (1986–1989) The band was founded in 1986 ...
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Groove Metal
Groove metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that began in the early 1990s. The genre achieved success in the 1990s and continued having success in the 2000s. Inspired by thrash metal and traditional heavy metal, groove metal features raspy singing and screaming, down-tuned guitars, heavy guitar riffs, and syncopated rhythms. Unlike thrash metal, groove metal is usually slower and also uses elements of traditional heavy metal. Pantera are often considered the pioneers of groove metal, and groove metal expanded in the 1990s with bands like White Zombie, Machine Head, and Sepultura. The genre continued in the 2000s with bands like Lamb of God, DevilDriver, and Five Finger Death Punch. Characteristics Groove metal is heavily influenced by thrash metal, but is focused more on heaviness as opposed to speed, even though fast songs are still common within the genre. Emphasis lies in heavy guitar riffs, often accompanied by syncopated rhythms, and guitar solos are commonpl ...
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Thrash Metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work. The lyrical subject matter often includes criticism of The Establishment and concern over environmental destruction, and at times shares a disdain for Christian dogma with that of black metal. The language is typically direct and denunciatory, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre emerged in the early 1980s as musicians began fusing the double bass drumming and complex guitar stylings of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk. Philosophically, thrash metal developed as a backlash against both the conservatism of the Reagan Era and the much more mo ...
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SPV GmbH
SPV GmbH (short for ''Schallplatten Produktion und Vertrieb GmbH'', "Vinyl Production and Distribution Company") is a German independent record label. Founded on 1 January 1984, it has slowly grown to be one of the largest independent distributors and record labels worldwide. It has several sub-labels that it produces and distributes, including the labels Steamhammer ( heavy metal, hard rock), Long Branch Records ( alternative, indie, progressive rock, progressive metal, metalcore), Oblivion ( darkwave, gothic), SPV Recordings ( pop, rock) and Cash Machine Records ( hip hop). In November 2020, SPV was acquired by Napalm Records. Artists on Steamhammer Steamhammer's most successful artists include Sepultura, Arena, Kreator, Rhapsody of Fire, Sodom, Evildead, Angra, Eric Burdon, Blackmore's Night, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Doro, Helloween, Kamelot, Iced Earth, Moonspell, Anne Clark, Vicious Rumors, Saxon, Sodom, Prong, Pro-Pain, Monster Magnet, Type O Negative, Skinn ...
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Steve Evetts
Steve Evetts is an American record producer who has produced music for Alesana, Poison the Well, A Static Lullaby, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, Symphony X, Saves the Day, Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Hightower, Story of the Year, Every Time I Die, Earth Crisis, Still Remains, Our Last Night, and The Wonder Years. Steve Evetts has been an active producer since 1992, producing mostly metal albums, as well as indie, and emo Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of and hardcore punk from the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered b ... bands.Steve Evetts Complete Discography at Allmusic, Discography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Evetts, Steve Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American record producers ...
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Tommy Victor
Thomas M. Victor (born 1961/1962) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for heavy metal band Prong, which he founded in New York City in 1986, as well as the guitarist for heavy metal band Danzig intermittently since 1996 and full-time since 2008. Biography upright=0.6, left, Victor on the tour bus with Ministry in 2008 In the late 1980s, Victor worked as a sound engineer at the music club CBGB in New York City. After the release of '' Rude Awakening'' in 1996, Prong disbanded and Victor moved to Los Angeles, but later revived the band to release new Prong records. He took a break from Prong during which he worked alongside rock musicians including Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, and Glenn Danzig. Since 2012's '' Carved into Stone'', Prong have been very active again, releasing albums and touring regularly. 2013 saw the band release their ''Official Bootleg – Unleashed in the West'' album ...
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Carved Into Stone
''Carved into Stone'' is the eighth studio album by American metal band Prong. It reached No. 13 at the Top Heatseekers chart. Released on April 24, 2012, via Long Branch Records/SPV, the work was produced by Steve Evetts with cover artwork by Vance Kelly. Reception ''Carved into Stone'' received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 84/100 based on four reviews. Track listing All lyrics by Tommy Victor, except "Ammunition" by Franky DeSmet-VanDamme, Mikey Doling and Victor; "Revenge...Best Served Cold" by Mike Longworth and Tommy Victor; and "Feuer frei!" by Rammstein. # "Eternal Heat" (Tommy Victor, Tony Campos, Alexei Rodriguez) # "Keep On Living in Pain" (Victor, Campos, Rodrigues) # "Ammunition" (Phil Baheux, Tino De Martino, Franky DeSmet-VanDamme, Mikey Doling, Victor) # "Revenge...Best Served Cold" (Mike Longworth, Victor) # "State of Rebellion" (Victor, Campos, Rodrigues) # "Put Myself to Sleep" (Victor, Campos, Rodrigues) # ...
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Songs From The Black Hole (Prong Album)
''Songs from the Black Hole'' is a cover album by American metal band Prong, released on March 31, 2015. According to frontman Tommy Victor, the goal of the cover album was to explore musical roots of the band and "the vast landscape that makes up the band's sound". He stated, it should visualize "the theme of urban decay, desolation, insecurity and ultimate change". The basic tracks were recorded with Peter Funke in Trixx Studios in Berlin, Germany. The album was mixed and mastered by Chris Collier at Mission:Black Studios in Santa Clarita, California, with additional guitars also recorded there. Vocals were recorded by Collier at Lynchbox Studios also in Santa Clarita. Jason Christopher added background vocals on "Give Me the Cure". The cover artwork was created by Mike Lopez. Reception ''Songs from the Black Hole'' received mixed reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 66/100 based on four reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Track li ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Gui ...
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Digipak
Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage. Jewel case A jewel CD case is a compact disc case that has been used since the compact disc was first released in 1982. It is a three-piece plastic case, measuring , a volume of , which usually contains a compact disc along with the liner notes and a back card. Two opposing transparent halves are hinged together to form the casing, the back half holding a media tray that grips the disc by its hole. All three parts are made of injection-moulded polystyrene. The front lid contains two, four, or six tabs to keep any liner notes in place. The liner notes typically will be a booklet, or a single leaf folded in half. In addition, there is usually a back card, , underneath the media tray and visible through the clear back, often listing the track names, ...
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Media Control Charts
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