Rude Awakening (Prong album)

Rude Awakening is the fifth studio album by American metal band Prong. It is an enhanced CD but was also released as a special limited edition on 12" red vinyl. The album was reissued in 2008 as a digipak version, featuring four remixes of the "Rude Awakening" single and a new booklet.[1]

Rude Awakening
Studio album by
Prong
ReleasedMay 14, 1996
Recorded1995
Genre
Length45:50
LabelEpic
ProducerTerry Date, Tommy Victor
Prong chronology
Cleansing
(1994)		 Rude Awakening
(1996)		 100% Live
(2002)

Rude Awakening entered the Billboard charts at No. 107[2] and sold 10,000 units in the United States in its first week.[3] It is the last Prong album to feature Ted Parsons and Paul Raven, as well as the band's last album on Epic Records.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

Reviewing the title track, Billboard wrote that the single's "assaulting, deviant style" shows why Prong is popular.[5] Jenni Glenn of CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album is heavier and angrier than Cleansing, blending thrash metal and industrial music.[6]

Track listing

All tracks written by Prong except "Controller" (Prong and Scott Albert) and "Slicing" (Prong and Joe Bishara Kebbe).[7]

  1. "Controller" – 3:39
  2. "Caprice" – 2:47
  3. "Rude Awakening" – 4:18
  4. "Unfortunately" – 3:08
  5. "Face Value" – 4:09
  6. "Avenue of the Finest" – 3:37
  7. "Slicing" – 3:29
  8. "Without Hope" – 3:13
  9. "Mansruin" – 3:29
  10. "Innocence Gone" – 3:11
  11. "Dark Signs" – 3:22
  12. "Close the Door" – 4:05
  13. "Proud Division" – 5:46

Personnel

Additional personnel

Chart positions
Chart (1996) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[2] 107

References
  1. "SPV/Steamhammer Reissues METAL CHURCH, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, PRONG, BONHAM Titles In Europe". Blabbermouth.net. November 12, 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  2. "Prong". Billboard. Archived from the original on July 18, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  3. "Interview with Tommy Victor of Prong | The Midlands Rocks". themidlandsrocks.com. April 22, 2014. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  4. "Rude Awakening - Prong". AllMusic.
  5. "Reviews & Previews: Singles: Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 20. May 18, 1996. p. 70.
  6. Glenn, Jenni (April 1996). "Metal: Prong, Rude Awakening". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 32. p. 28.
  7. "Images for Prong - Rude Awakening". Discogs.
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