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Village Voice review of CMJ's "Rocks Off" Boat Cruise
by Katherine Turman
October 22, 2012
Read the killer Village Voice review of Prong's live show on the CMJ "Rocks Off" Boat Cruise!
Tommy Victor interview in REVOLVER
by Tom Bryant
May 10, 2012
REVOLVER interviews Prong Frontman Tommy Victor on New Album, Carved into Stone, "electro metal," and Knotfest. Plus enter to win an autographed Tommy Victor Schecter guitar! Click here to check it out!
UK's Q Magazine gives "Carved Into Stone" four stars!
by Tom Bryant
May 10, 2012
Metal Forces Magazine
May 5, 2012
Check out the Tommy Victor feature interview with Anthony Morgan from Metal Forces Magazine!
Metal Buzz
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by Gregory Burkart
May 1, 2012
"Every album has at least one or two songs that could have or should have been left off, right? But not here. Seriously, there is not even one sub-par song on this record. They are all great. Every guitar chord played, every drum beat blasted, every slaggy bass string plucked makes sense. Prong blaze through several styles of metal, from thrash, with anthems like the opener 'Eternal Heat', 'Ammunition' and 'List Of Grievances', to sludgy riff fueled chuggers like 'Path of Least Resistance'. There is even a taste of the classic, industrial groove induced Prong on songs like the sarcastic 'Revenge… Best Served Cold' and the albums closer, 'Reinvestigate'."
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FearNET
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by Gregory Burkart
April 30, 2012
"If I had just two words to categorize the "classic" Prong sound, I'd describe it as "coldly aggressive"... which is probably how doctors refer to a highly unstable mental patient with a history of violence. Victor's riffs are intricately machined and smooth as hell, with some of metal's tightest transitions to link them together, but there's also a dark undercurrent of madness beneath. "Revenge... Best Served Cold," which is also the latest single...could easily have been a lost track from Cleansing, because it captures everything that killed on that record."
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Terrorizer Magazine Album Review and Feature Spread 
by Pete Woods and Kevin Stewart-Panko
April 29, 2012
Check out the album review and feature spread in the April 2012 issue of Terrorizer Magazine where Tommy Victor talks about how "Beg To Differ" happened and their upcoming UK tour where they will play the album in it's entirety.
PopBlerd!
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by Jesse
April 20, 2012
"Calling Prong's latest album, Carved Into Stone, the definitive Prong album (And possibly their best) would be an understatement. Their first in almost five years, Carved Into Stone manages to encapsulate everything that Prong has ever been into a neat package and still look to the future with open arms. There's hints of Rude Awakening industrial, the grind of Prove You Wrong, the perfection of Cleansing, some nods to thrash and some just plain old good metal"
Grade: A
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Blistering
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by Matt Coe
April 20, 2012
"Prong push the thrash angle to the hilt on opener "Eternal Heat" and the double-bass frenzy "List of Grievances," done in that often imitated but never quite duplicated East Coast way, including the call-and-response gang background vocals. This release appears comfortable - the band isn't chasing any trendy brass ring, preferring to just release 11 songs that live up to their early, successful major label heyday."
Rating: 8 out of 10
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The Rockfather
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone"
April 14, 2012
"By the fourth track of the album, it is made perfectly clear that CARVED INTO STONE is the album that PRONG fans have been eagerly awaiting since 1996's RUDE AWAKENING. Under the guidance of producer Steve Evetts, PRONG has created a true companion to CLEANSING and 'AWAKENING. The unmistakable tone has returned, and the groove that was largely missing from SCORPIO RISING and POWER OF THE DAMAGER has been restored. While the latter was a step in returning to the thrashy beginnings of pre-CLEANSING PRONG, the new album really does, as Victor said himself, have "every strand of PRONG's DNA."
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars
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Metal Riot
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by morganyevans
April 13, 2012
"Wow. What just happened? Talk about an album handing your ass to you and leaving you with two black eyes to boot. Prong is back with Carved Into Stone, an album that is almost like Prong's version of Slayer. Hard charge and no bullshit from "Eternal Heat" all the way through to the caveman power stomp of "Reinvestigate", this one is a must have. Power Of The Damager was an amazing release for Prong, really setting the band back on its' feet, but Carved Into Stone is an even more serious blessing for fans. If this is the last Prong album ever (hopefully not, but…) it would be a capstone that distills Prong to the raw essence, inarguably showing all the skill Victor wields as a guitarist and aggressive songwriter."
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The New Review
Album Review: Prong – "Carved Into Stone" by Rob Truesdale
April 12, 2012
"One of the best things I can say about Carved Into Stone is that this is without a doubt the finest Prong has ever sounded on an album...The effects going on within Carved Into Stone are minimal, which signals a welcome return to the primal roots of Prong and an overall representation of the spirit of this record. The old saying "less is more" encapsulates its essence. What additives are there serve a purpose and they don't hinder or mask the arrangement as each element of the band is allowed to come through in the final mix. There's no sense of competition amongst the ingredients, in other words, just a finished product that is catchy and satisfying."
Rating: 4 out of 5
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