Czarmageddon!, the eighth album from the hip hop supergroup Czarface (comprised of Boston-based duo 7L and Estoeric and the Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck), finds our hosts deep within their wheelhouse. Having grown more than comfortable with the comic book-inspired alien superbeing named Czarface becoming the face for the group, Deck and (especially) Esoteric allow their respective freak flags to fly, talking mad shit behind the microphone while dropping in numerous pop culture references for many different types of media, all atop boom bap-informed, sample-heavy soundscapes provided by the Czar-Keys, a production duo made up of DJ 7L and Spada4.
Czarmageddon!, which also continues the group's tendency to run with the most awful puns they can come up with that replace rhyming words with "czar", comes after album-length collaborations with Ghostface Killah and the late MF DOOM, both like-minded artists with similar memory palaces and a love of comic book imagery. While guests were also invited to contribute here,
Czarmageddon! is primarily the Eso and Deck hour, allowing room for both rappers to shine.
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-Max
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