“It was Michael Jackson’s label. The people that worked there mostly thought that alternative, heavy music was garbage”: How cult fixtures Prong found their brief mainstream moment

Tommy Victor of Prong onstage in 2015.

Children of New York’s hardcore underground, Prong finally found chart success with 1994 single Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck. However, an apathetic record label prevented them from capitalising on their big break. In 2023, singer/guitarist Tommy Victor told Hammer the story behind the song.