{"id":23764,"date":"2026-11-03T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=23764"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:50:22","slug":"prong-shares-new-single-new-commission-from-upcoming-self-titled-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=23764","title":{"rendered":"PRONG Shares New Single ‘New Commission’ From Upcoming Self-Titled Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York’s alternative metal legends PRONG<\/strong> have released “New Commission”<\/strong>, the latest single from their upcoming self-titled album, due on November 6 via Napalm Records<\/strong>. Built upon machine-gun kicks, discordant riffage, and frontman Tommy Victor<\/strong>‘s venomous barks, the cataclysmic thrash rager is bound to kick pitgoers back a few reading levels once it hits the stage. With their boundary-pushing fusion of classic New York hardcore, infectious grooves, and industrial textures, PRONG<\/strong> reaffirms why they are not just the model, but still the standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About “No Commission”<\/strong>, Tommy<\/strong> states: ”This is a barn burner, banger thrasher of a song with a huge hook and a ferocious breakdown. It’s got it all!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its nearly four decades of domination, PRONG<\/strong> has remained a respected force in the scene, gigging doggedly around the world \u2014 becoming mainstays at seminal festivals like Wacken Open Air<\/strong>, Alcatraz<\/strong> and Brutal Assault<\/strong> \u2014 and unleashing a steady stream of classic albums dominating TV, radio, and streaming throughout their tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honoring the band’s legacy, “Prong”<\/strong> packs 11 galvanizing haymakers, encompassing elements of industrial, thrash, alternative rock, and, of course, New York hardcore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor<\/strong> previously said about the upcoming LP: “This could be the best PRONG<\/strong> album to date. It’s definitely the best-sounding PRONG<\/strong> album ever, with the incredible Andy Sneap<\/strong> mixing and mastering it! This record represents a new lease on life for PRONG<\/strong> with a new label, a fresh attitude with faster and heavier songs, bigger hooks and top-notch sound quality. That’s why it’s self-titled; it’s a redefining episode for PRONG<\/strong>!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the plethora of legends born from the primordial ooze bubbling at New York’s most iconic punk club, CBGBs, there is only one PRONG<\/strong>. Forming during the venue’s late 1980s renaissance period alongside hardcore legends like GORILLA BISCUITS<\/strong>, MADBALL<\/strong>, SICK OF IT ALL<\/strong> and BIOHAZARD<\/strong>, PRONG<\/strong> set themselves apart with melodic sensibility on formative records like “Beg To Differ”<\/strong> (1990) and “Cleansing”<\/strong> (1994),becoming mainstays on the iconic MTV<\/strong>‘s “Headbangers Ball”<\/strong>. With their boundary pushing fusion of classic New York hardcore, infectious grooves, and industrial textures PRONG<\/strong> laid the foundation for numerous styles of post-hardcore like groove metal, industrial metal, and crossover thrash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the band’s mission statement, “Prong”<\/strong> incorporates the well of styles their legacy is built on. Blistering thrash sections, open into lush choruses on opening anthem “The Banner”<\/strong>, before somehow pushing the intensity even further on “New Commission”<\/strong>. “The Uprising”<\/strong> reintroduces the band’s industrial edge, weaponizing textured synths over a pulsating two-step, before “Uncertain Truth”<\/strong> flexes its melodic chops, offering a transcendently sweet hook. Immediately the band dropkicks listeners in the chest with the pummeling “Fear The Sun”<\/strong> inciting classic New York hardcore pit violence. Iconic vocalist and guitarist Tommy Victor<\/strong>‘s chops come out in full swing on “Proportionate Response”<\/strong>, a smoldering incitement of retaliatory justice, before the blistering kicks of “Simulated Drowning”<\/strong> propel us forward. Album closer “Our Continuance”<\/strong> brings things to a cataclysmic close with its menacingly methodical pulse and pummeling discordant breakdowns, tied together with a lush chorus amplified with swelling synth textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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