Necro’s new album, Death Rap, is poised to reinvent hip-hop and aggressive metal music as we know it. Not many other artists have managed to strike a balance between the two styles of music without watering down one or the other. Death Rap pushes both genres to their extremes, far surpassing anything Necro or anyone else has done in the past.

While Necro is an underground hip-hop legend, his first musical project was playing guitar in a death metal band. However, his love of rap music soon set him on the path of writing, recording, and releasing albums on his own label Psycho+Logical-Records. Necro created a cult following, based on word of mouth and clever street promotion. His first two albums: I Need Drugs and Gory Days each sold over 30,000 copies and are highly regarded in the underground hip-hop community. Necro started to show his metal roots with 2004’s Prefix for Death, an album that featured collaborations with members of Hatebreed, Slipknot, Obituary, S.O.D. and was even more successful than anything he had done before. His past successes have enabled Necro to build up a strong online following with over 130,000 friends on MySpace and a massive YouTube presence.

Now in 2007, Necro is concentrating on his career, rigorously touring the world for the first time and releasing his most ambitious album to date. Death Rap features more of what fans love about Necro: raw lyrical skill, dirty hip-hop beats and an array of guest stars of the current and classic metal scene. Guest appearances include Mark Morton of Lamb of God, Brian Fair of Shadows Fall, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Steve DiGiorgio of Death, and Adam Jackson from Twelve Tribes. Death Rap is truly going to be a genre defining record for hip-hop and metal fans everywhere.

Track Listing
1. Creepy Crawl
2. No Remorse
3. Some Get Back (Revenge)
4. Belligerent Gangsters feat. Harley Flanagan of The Cro-Mags
5. Suffocated To Death By God's Shadow feat. Brian Fair of Shadows Fall, Mark Morton of Lamb of God, Mike Smith of Suffocation, & Steve DiGiorgio of Death/Sadus
6. Mutilate The Beat
7. Keep On Driving
8. Technician Of Execution
9. Keeping It Real feat Adam Jackson of Twelve Tribes
10. Exploitation feat. Mr. Hyde
11. As Deadly As Can Be feat. ILL Bill
12. Evil Rules feat. Scott Ian of Anthrax, Dave Ellefson formerly of Megadeth & Ray Alder of Fates Warning
13. Forensic Pathology
14. Portrait Of A Death Rapper

Necro Performance Review Philadelphia, PA
By: Kristyn

I recently had the opportunity to check out rap artist Necro's show in Philadelphia. The majority of the songs in Necro's set were from his latest album "Death Rap". If you can ignore some of Necro's misogynistic musings and hard-core messages about violence and drug use that overlay most of his rhymes, then he put on a pretty solid performance. Necro was extremely talented a working the crowd, almost to a frenzy, and having them eat up every word that was spitting from his mouth. I am not sure how I feel about the other members of Necro's crew, as they had no introductions, and were basically just hopping around the stage the entire time. Necro's gruff vocals carried the performance from start to finish and his live performance was much more on cue than on any of the CD's I had heard prior to the show.

There were a few stand-out songs from Necro's set, "Creepy Crawl" which is almost homage to serial killer Charles Manson, and "No Remorse" which started a small, but vicious mosh pit in the venue. My favorite song of the night was "Push it to the Limit" which seemed to be the most 'on' and carried the most energy, you should have seen the mosh pit double in size for that one. My only real complaint for the evening was the totally unchoreographed call for females from the crowd for "Whose Your Daddy". Although the cover of "Time of the Season" by The Zombies was hilarious, the girls bouncing around the stage was totally unnecessary, but I am sure it made the men in the crowd quite happy! All and all Necro, definitely ignited the energy in the room to beef them up for the evening main act Insane Clown Posse and somehow he manages to connect with fans in his own way, and that is what is most important.