Pegging Necro as a one trick pony belies his skills as a producer. New York’s hyper intense lord of gore has shown his proclivity behind the boards on releases for a shady cabal of rappers such as Sabac, Goretex, Mr Hyde and his fleet-tongued brother Ill Bill, mangling movie samples with deep bass figures, scything strings and a seamless grasp of hip-hop beat science. While those skills were sharply focused on both sides of his fourth single, the low pianos and crying horns of ‘Empty The Clip’ just edge it over ‘Morbid’, despite the A-side’s killer hook. Referencing alleged axe murderer Lizzie Borden, 90s TV anthology Tales from the Crypt and Klaus Mann’s Mephisto along the way in his brutal dead-eyed Brooklyn monotone, Necro’s dispassionately clipped tone made razored raps like “Be quiet like bodies dead at morgues/Or be tortured and fed to dogs” sound even more creepy. It pointed the way towards 2004’s The Pre-Fix For Death, a morbidly obese set of violent hymns for a disturbed world that housed career high ‘Beautiful Music For You To Die To’ plus a glut of metal-infused horrorcore only suitable for those with strong guts.