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Cleansing (album)

Cleansing
Prong cleansing cover.jpg
Studio album by Prong
Released January 25, 1994
Recorded 1993
Genre Groove metal, crossover thrash, industrial metal, alternative metal
Length 58:02
Label Epic
Producer Terry Date
Prong
Prong chronology
Whose Fist Is This Anyway?
(1992)
Cleansing
(1994)
Rude Awakening
(1996)
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Review scores
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AllMusic 4.5/5 stars

Cleansing is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Prong. It was produced by Terry Date, whereas all of Prong's previous albums had been produced by Mark Dodson. It includes ex-Killing Joke members Paul Raven on bass guitar and John Bechdel on keyboards/programming. Cleansing was Prong's only moderate commercial success. It was reissued in 2008 as a digipack version.

The music video to "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. The professional wrestler Justin Credible used the track as his entrance theme in Extreme Championship Wrestling and when performing in the independent promotions.

To promote the album, Prong embarked on the Cleansing Tour which included opening acts Clutch and Drown. They also toured with Sepultura and Pantera as an opener for their Chaos A.D. and Far Beyond Driven tours.

Vision Thing by The Sisters of Mercy was an influence on Cleansing. Tommy Victor said that the band had tired of their earlier thrash metal sound, and he wanted the band to go in a new direction that incorporated dance metal.


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