THE BEAST

Prodigium - Self Titled LP - Reviewed By World Of Metal ! Check it out here at this link: https://worldofmetalmag.com/wom-reviews-black-foxxes-killer-be-killed-four-stroke-baron-dislaze-prodigium-steve-hughes-eternum-scream-at-the-sky-tommy-lee/

With the references being Pantera and Machine Head, I didn't expect something so symphonic. And the references are not even very wrong. We have the groove of these two bands, although this groove does not go far beyond a rhythmic simplicity that would quickly become uninteresting - were it not for the orchestral melodies and the vocal power, with a guttural reminiscent of the late Gorefest. This mixture of elements that at first sound little cohesive with each other gives a result that even manages to convince minimally. At least a good starting point for something even better in the near future.

7/10
Fernando Ferreira

Prodigium is a libertarian two piece groove metal band from Jackson , MS . Formed in 2010 when cousins Lloyd Bourne and Robert Van Zandt started writing metal music together. The songs they wrote over the following two years would languish as demos until the 2020 quarantine where they were rerecorded and re-imagined. That work culminated in their debut self-titled album Prodigium . Inspired by Pantera , Machine Head and the greater early 90’s groove metal scene, Prodigium’s debut album is political, melodic and most of all brutal. The opener of the album Heathen tells the story of the cost of war on the human soul and features a guitar solo from Cameron Losch of Born of Osiris . The U.S.S.A . is a searing 7 minute attack on the American regime followed by the album's single Warhorse , a biting critique on the overreaching American government. Broken follows Warhorse in the track listing and it is both the story of leaving where you were raised to start a new life as well as leaving to fight oppression . The second to last track on the album is Unchained a bombastic song about finding freedom . The final and longest song on the album is The Tempest Will Rise a sprawling 9 minute song about taking the fight to your enemy. Download it for free on Bandcamp or stream it on all your favorite streaming services. 

https://open.spotify.com/album/6PskTIKWtZFwNIlOqvgajs?si=F7dHnrq5QNSzRpVxNY7u4Q

https://music.apple.com/us/album/prodigium/1522574867

https://prodigium.bandcamp.com/releases