THE PRODIGY ANNOUNCE INVADERS MUST DIE TOUR THIS MAY US Dates Announced

THE PRODIGY ANNOUNCE INVADERS MUST DIE TOUR THIS MAY US Dates Announced

Liam Howlett: ‘Invaders Must Die is the product of the last 7 turbulent years of the band, we really fought for it, this is about the three of us again, a band record we can take live. The name is a reference to being got at on the last album. People could see a way in, chinks in the armour. They thought ‘This bands is so tight and can’t be infiltrated’ and it was like David and Goliath. The people that tried to get in were the invaders. Everyone else is the enemy. Also on a straight up street level we love the abrasiveness of it, it gets heads thinking ‘What is that?’ The first tune says it all “WE ARE THE PRODIGY!.”

“Nearly 20 years after their first record, The Prodigy’s beats are as hard-hitting as ever, and they remain one of few acts who’ve figured out how to combine electronic, hip-hop, and rock in the right way” – XLR8R April COVER story

This is the sound of the Prodigy mixing up genres, contorting the past and rewiring the future. The Prodigy ramraiding through the tranquility of music’s status quo like a blot on the landscape of England’s dreaming. The Prodigy with a short, sharp and brutal declaration of intent. Still underground after all these years. Still true to the dream.

Invaders Must Die is the fifth album from a band long synonymous with bringing urban disruption to the countryside. Like uninvited guests dirtying up the landscape they’ve long trodden paths supposedly to them.

This is a car crash of all 3 of their personalities and inspirations. Keith Flint’s unhinged vocal, Maxim’s ’91 East London warehouse aural assault and Liam’s bomb squad inspired production. Once again The Prodigy aren’t playing to the script others have written for them.

And indeed “Nobody does The Prodigy like The Prodigy, and it’s a joy to have them back on all cylinders.” – Clash – 8/10, March 2009

“The Prodigy are back to their best.” **** – The Daily Telegraph – 11th December 2008 (Live Review)

While the excitement is heating up, The Prodigy gear up for their triumphant return to NYC later this evening at Roseland and announce their US Tour dates this May. Tickets go on sale now for The Prodigy’s Invaders Must Die Tour.

“Controversial, explosive, unapologetic, and incomparable, the Prodigy own one of the most storied and colorful histories of any band making music over the last two decades, regardless of genre.” – URB Magazine

“Invaders Must Die is a laser-guided smart bomb packed with rave alarms and blunt force beats designed to pound you into submission while you rave ’til dawn. The fusion of rock ‘n’ roll swagger with sophisticated electronic know-how is what Howlett and the Prodigy do best, and Invaders proves that no one can do it better.” – Shockhound

“Invaders Must Die, sees it back in rabid, snarling form. This could be the only show you’ll see in a while that calls for both dancing shoes and riot gear.” – Flavorpill

THE PRODIGY INVADERS MUST DIE TOUR

05/18 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
05/19 – Electric City – Philadelphia, PA
05/20 – House of Blues – Boston, MA
05/22 – The Filmore – Detroit, MI
05/23 – Congress Theater – Chicago, IL
05/26 – The Grove – Anaheim, CA
05/27 – Hollywood Paladium – Los Angeles, CA
05/28 – Warfield Theatre – San Francisco, CA
05/30 – WAMU Theatre – Seattle, WA

Following the success of their critically acclaimed #1 Album, ‘Invaders Must Die,’ the fastest and biggest selling recording in the UK this year, The Prodigy set their sights on America. There’s good reason why The Prodigy have topped the charts in every country they stormed the stage including Europe #1, Australia #3, and Japan #8: It’s The Prodigy experience, live like no other.

In the US, ‘Invaders Must Die’ debuted at #3 on Billboards Independent Album Charts and #1 on the Amazon Chart, only being knocked down to second place by those Irish Lads, U2.

Now It’s time us Americans got our flashback to the band who “can fairly be described as the techno equivalent of U2 or Oasis.” **** – The Independent (Live Review)

‘Invaders Must Die’ has been hailed as a triumphant return to form for The Prodigy. The first band to be praised as rockers and ravers. It’s the sound of The Prodigy mixing up genres, contorting the past and rewiring the future. It’s the sound of The Prodigy ram-raiding through the tranquillity of music’s status quo like a blot on the landscape of England’s dreaming. Still underground after all these years, still true to their vision, the album thunders like the mother of all E-rushes, hairs tingling, spine jumping and lips buzzing. Guitars crack, vocals snap and sweat soaked b-lines attack with adrenalized breakcore attitude while rushing keyboard hooks come on like a future bound arms-in-the-air flashback. But it ain’t no retroactive water-sharing nostalgia trip. This set is fuelled by the saliva-dripping rabid snarl of the here and now.

“Muscular Swaggering breakbeat freakouts..it’s a welcome throwback considering the ferocity, ease and unabashed glee that drive the London trio’s fifth studio album…Saucy.” – USA Today

“It’s the perfect merger of the band’s commercial sensibilities and their expert nostalgic a posteriori headfuckery. All the grinding square-waves distorted to resemble metal guitars (“Run With the Wolves”) and squealing high-pitched video game synths (“Colours”) dance together so harmoniously that you may just delude yourself into believing the band’s capricious back catalogue was a straight arrow in perfect keeping with the futurism of the hardcore continuum.” – Pop Matters

Following their SOLD OUT UK arena tour in April: (Wembley sold out in a fistful of minutes after the dates were announced, the band just recently added another show due to popular demand), The Prodigy will embark on their nationwide US tour this May, unleashing new material from ‘Invaders Must Die’ mixed in with old skool favorites such as ‘Voodoo People’, ‘Everybody in the Place’, ‘Charley Says’, ‘Smack My Bitch Up’, ‘Breath’ and the infamous ‘Firestarter’. From Boston, Detroit and Chicago to SF, and LA, and other major cities during their two week visit, finally The Prodigy are providing the chance for the US to witness a first listen to their new tracks live.

Their first single, the anthemic “OMEN”, their most successful UK radio single to date, having remained on the BBC Radio 1 Play list and what Zane Lowe calls “The hottest Record in the world” will beam you straight into the moshpit from rave central via a contorted fucked up take on the skanking synth hooks of ‘Your Love’, thundering breaks and a one finger salute of a vocal line. It’s a tune The Prodigy love. Expect to hear “RUN WITH THE WOLVES,” where The Prodigy’s self-assured, gang-minded campaign turns into a maniacal, nose bleeding, heads-against-the-wall warzone with body blowing beats courtesy of Dave Grohl set firmly to ultraviolence. And ‘WARRIOR’S DANCE’ a jabbing, adrenalized octave-snarling b-line wraps its coils around alamenting Eastern refrain before erupting into an anthemic, hands in the air, e-rushing epic, and a vocal hook that’s guaranteed to bring a gurning flashback to faces of the rave generation.

Invaders Must Die was released on March 3rd in the US on the bands own Imprint, Take Me To The Hospital/Cooking Vinyl. The Prodigy’s 5th studio album is the unique sound of The Prodigy, still trespassing after all these years, walking the path they’ve created for themselves. And with that free party attitude still breaking and entering where other’s can only dream of following.

The Prodigy return for World domination. “We are The Prodigy … no- one else comes close.” Liam Howlett

“Invaders Must Die is a stirringly workmanlike, if retro, blast of founder/producer Liam Howlett’s anthemic breakbeat spazz. The deft drum programming and piercing synths of “Omen” (with Flint and Maxim back on mic) create the sort of gut-punching delirium that Justice could pull off if they weren’t too busy smoking Gauloises by the infinity pool” **** 4 Stars – Spin Magazine, Charles Aaron

“Invaders Must Die is the sound of a band firing on all cylinders – a potent, often cinematic blend of samples and body-quaking organic instrumentation” – NYLON

“Colours, the best rave dance track you’re ever going to hear. Run with the Wolves, which features Dave Grohl delivering a live drumbeat that rivals any drum ‘n’ bass in terms of tempo.” – Bullzeye

“Best known here as the shock troops of the late ’90s electronica revolution that never was, the Prodigy made their bones five years earlier as the breakout stars of London’s illegal rave scene. If anyone has the right to reboot the manic keyboard riffs and overheated breakbeats of the era, it’s them.” – Blender

“Electro-wiz Liam Howlett applies his prodigious talents to muscular, swaggering breakbeat freakouts that transparently revisit The Prodigy’s rave origins. Synths and machined beats rule, but Howlett makes room for organics: the saucy horn samples in “Stand Up” and Dave Grohl’s galloping drums in “Run With the Wolves.” – USA TODAY

“Remember the mid- to late-90s, when slightly naïve and overexcited journalists were swarming to crown “Big Beat” the Next. Huge! Genre!! and acts like The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim were treated like gods? Those days seem far away now, but The Prodigy, now consisting of Liam Howlett, Keith Flint, and Maxim, continue to release their unique brand of uptempo, hyperactive dance music.” – MetroMix

“This is a fully cohesive collection of turbo-chafed, old-skool rave-inspired anthems that fulfils their obvious mission statement: we ain’t finished yet.” – Zoo, 4/5, 20th February 2009

“Will have everyone feeling young and angry again plus win the band a new generation of fans.” – News of The World, 4/5, 22nd February 2009

“Essex rave-rockers snap back into life. The Prodigy have rained down fire on the moronic nu-rave scene that’s sprung up in their wake.” Kerrang!, 4/5, 21st February 2009
“It’s hard to imagine many better records being release this year.” – London Lite, 5/5, 16th February 2009

“It is, quite simply, the big, brilliant, dumb rave album we have secretly want them to make for the past ten years.” – The Times, 4/5, 20th February 2009

“Seeing as your our generation’s probably never felt more jilted, we need The Prodigy.” – Loud and Quiet, 8/10 February 2009

“There’s still plenty of life left in the UK’s most influential rave beast.” – IDJ 10/10, March 2009

“What Howlett has done is perfect a sort of nostalgic futurism, a prism through which we can access those pleasures we’ve already enjoyed and look forward to those we don’t know about yet.” – Word – March 2009

“It’s great to have them back.” – Mixmag, 4/5, March 2009

“These party monsters and pop annihilators are still havin’ it, then – and making everyone want some too.” – Metro, 23rd February 2009

“A luminous trouser wearing, get off your face rave mash up of a long player.” – Look, 4/5, 23rd February 2009

“The twisted firestarters, red hot and raving again.” – The Observer 22nd February 2009

“You suspect that even Prodigy mainstay Liam Howlett wasn’t expecting his group to make another album as good as this.” – The Times, Playlist, 21st February 2009

“The Prodigy do what The Prodigy do, and have always done best: making stooped dance music to do your nut in.” – NME, 7/10, 21st February 2009

“This is a fully cohesive collection of turbo-chafed, old-skool rave-inspired anthems that fulfils their obvious mission statement: we ain’t finished yet.” – Zoo, 4/5, 20th February 2009

“A suitably lacerating mix for the most pulverising, pummelling and pleasuring rockers in the land.” – Daily Mirror, 4/5, 20th February 2009

“As stupidly cool and relevant as their former glories.” – Mizz, 5/5 19th February 2009

“Will have everyone feeling young and angry again plus win the band a new generation of fans.” – News of The World, 4/5, 22nd February 2009

“Essex rave-rockers snap back into life. The Prodigy have rained down fire on the moronic nu-rave scene that’s sprung up in their wake.” – Kerrang!, 4/5, 21st February 2009

“The Prodge recapture some former hardcore rave glories.” – Record Collector March 2009

“As incendiary as ever.” – Harper’s Bazaar March 2009

“The Prodigy are back and they are here to dig up your dancing soul. Lock up EVERYTHING” – Clash – February 2009

“As devastating as you could hope for” – Mixmag – February 2009

“No other band has the crossover appeal of The Prodigy” – Kerrang – 3rd January 2009

“A fine, beat-blasting return.” – Kerrang! 3rd January 2009

“A frantic mash-up of breaks, rave and rock power all delivered in with the punk attitude that we know and love them for.” – DJ – January 2009

“The Prodigy are back! And boy is it a welcome return.” – IDJ – January 2009

“The Prodigy haven’t changed – they’ve just added enough new cusses to run up a national debt at the swear box.” **** – The Guardian – 16th December 2008 (Live Review)

“Brutal, skilful, faster, harder and more alive than ever before – the prodigal sons returned in style.” – Daily Star – 13th December 2008 (Live Review)

“Savage breakbeats, guitar hooks and plenty of swagger. It sounds like the second coming of the Jilted Generation.” – Metro – 12th December 2008

“The Prodigy can fairly be described as the techno equivalent of U2 or Oasis.” **** – The Independent (Live Review)

“They’re baaack! The masters of the dance-rock hybrid are about to show us who the real daddies of the genre are!” – Kerrang! – 6th December 2009

“11 tracks of rock-infused dance mayhem which might just remove your head cleanly from your shoulders.” Kerrang! – 8th November 2008