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Prodigy’s classic rave style is once again revitalized through the making of their new and official live album, World’s On Fire. The album features a showcase of their songs performed at Warrior’s Dance Festival last summer. With a mammoth audience of 65,000 keen Prodigy fans, the band rightly poured their blood, sweat and tears into the performance of their material.
To ignite the first sparks of Prodigy’s presence on stage, the band pump up the already animated audience as they address Milton Keynes. The audience undoubtedly answers with great dynamism, as abrupt guitar strikes intersperse the roar of sound from the fans. This hardcore intro is followed by some Prodigy classics, including ‘Omen’. The aggressive vocals and massive drum lines add to the overall menacing atmosphere that is created through this song. The addition of Keith Flint’s chants, ‘bring it on’ and ‘let me hear yah’ further boosts the crowds’ liveliness.
Despite being a more recent song, there is no less craving for the performance of ‘Warrior’s Dance’. The heavy bass line pounds out as the band chants for a circle of ‘warriors’. The dynamic increase within the song leads to a full-blown climax where the full potential of this powerful rave tune is exposed. ‘Firestarter’ strikes suddenly with a hard-hitting vocal line and an experimental guitar riff. The energy within the audience continues to mushroom.
Another classic, ‘Voodoo People’, establishes its timeless assertive and rhythmic bass line, creating a rupture of electronic power. The constantly changing tempo means you have no idean when the peak will hit. Possibly the anthem of Prodigy’s work, ‘Invaders Must Die’, follows this catalogue of exhausting songs. The rush of instrumental build up goes hand in hand with the vocal insistence expressed as the band sings ‘die, die, die’. At one point, the audience echoes the band vocals, creating an extra dimension of sound. For those abiding Prodigy fans out there, this album is definitely a winner. It is fair to say they will have snapped up some extra fans with the making of this album.
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