The Prodigy came out of the early-'90s British rave scene, formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer and keyboardist Liam Howlett, with Keith Flint and MC Maxim out front. Experience, the 1992 debut, reached No. 12 on the UK albums chart. Music for the Jilted Generation entered at No. 1 two years later.
Then they broke out of that world entirely. "Firestarter" spent three weeks at No. 1 in the UK in 1996, with Flint, who until then had been a dancer, now snarling the vocal. "Breathe" followed it to the top. The Fat of the Land, released in 1997, topped the UK chart and debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
Flint died on March 4, 2019. Howlett told Mixmag it was at least two years before he and Maxim even talked about the band again, and that they only figured out whether they could carry on by booking a small tour in 2022 and seeing how it felt. It worked. They've since gone back to Australia, the U.S. and Japan for the first time in five, seven and ten years respectively.
The 2026 UK and Ireland arena run sold out faster than anything they'd booked before, and Howlett promised the first new Prodigy music since 2018's No Tourists. Sonic Temple bills their Saturday set as the band's first Ohio show in 20 years.