Cleansing
Cleansing is the fourth studio album by Prong, the American heavy metal band, and it came out in 1994 on Epic. It followed Prove You Wrong, and it marked a change behind the desk: Terry Date took over production from Mark Dodson, who had overseen the previous two records. The line-up also gained two former Killing Joke members, Paul Raven on bass and John Bechdel on keyboards and programming.
Their presence fits the sound, which leans into industrial textures while keeping Prong's groove-heavy edge. The lead single, "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck", got heavy rotation on MTV and turned up on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head. The band then toured as openers for Sepultura on the Chaos A.D. tour and for Pantera on Far Beyond Driven. It's a good place to hear Prong at their most mechanical and muscular.
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Cleansing: tracklist and credits
12 tracks · 57:55Tracklist
- 1Another Worldly DeviceTed Parsons and Tommy Victor3:24
- 2Whose Fist Is This Anyway?Ted Parsons and Tommy Victor4:41
- 3Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your NeckTed Parsons and Tommy Victor4:12
- 4Cut-RateParsons, Raven, Victor4:52
- 5Broken PeaceTed Parsons and Tommy Victor6:12
- 6One OutnumberedTed Parsons and Tommy Victor4:58
- 7Out of This MiseryParsons, Raven, Victor4:26
- 8No QuestionTed Parsons and Tommy Victor4:18
- 9Not of This EarthTed Parsons and Tommy Victor6:24
- 10Home RuleParsons, Raven, Victor3:58
- 11SublimeTed Parsons and Tommy Victor3:52
- 12TestTed Parsons and Tommy Victor6:40
- Produced by
- Terry Date, Prong
- Recorded at
- Bad Animals Studio, Electric Lady Studios, The Magic Shop
- Recorded
- 1993
- Mixed at
- Electric Lady Studios
- Engineered by
- Terry Date
- Mastered by
- Ted Jensen
- Label
- Epic
- Length
- 57:55
Line-up
- John Bechdel · keyboard
- Ted Parsons · drums (drum set)
- Paul Raven · bass guitar
- Tommy Victor · guitar, vocals
Singles
- “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck” · 10 January 1994
- “Whose Fist Is This Anyway?” · 1994
- “Broken Peace” · 1994
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date sources disagree on the year (1993, 1994)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 1994 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 25 January 1994 | |
| Wikidata | 1993 | |
| US release | 1994 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 1994 | earliest UK or European date |
8 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | US | Epic | 886972333328 | original |
| 1994 | XE | Epic | 5099747479625 | original |
| 1994 | CA | Epic | 074645301921 | original |
| 1994 | XE | Epic | 5099747479694 | original |
| 1994 | XE | Epic | 5099747479618 | original |
| 8 March 1996 | JP | Epic | 4988010591328 | other |
| 2012 | GB | Southworld Recordings | 803341365865 | other |
| 8 July 2013 | XE | Music on Vinyl | 8718469532773 | remaster |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 599×567 | rejected |