Necro bombs Sounds of the Underground

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Every rock festival and/or tour needs its token rappers, and the Hot Topic-sponsored Sounds of the Underground junket is no different. But only a sick and twisted individual would choose gore proponent Necro to represent the hip-hop generation to the suburban ‘tweens and mallrats.

Then again, perhaps Necro fits right in amongst Gwar and Every Time I Die. “Metal has shown me a lot of love as a rapper. I don?t get nearly the same love from the hip-hop community,” he writes on the Headbangers Ball blog. “In hip-hop, it seems everyone is out to stab each other in the back. Metal is more about music and musicians and the love for riffs and creativity. I have met most of the hip-hop legends and they don?t compare to the coolness of metal legends. But I have always considered myself both metal and hip-hop. I don?t see why there is a separation when both art forms started out super underground, rebellious, and original, and most of the world hated both.”

The Brooklyn backpack thug doesn’t have a new album out, but he has a track (characteristically titled “The Pre-Fix for Death”) on the 2007 Sounds of the Underground compilation. The two-disc/DVD set, limited to 10,000 copies, is available at Hot Topic stores nationwide.

Here are the tour dates:

  • 7/06: Palladium Ballroom, Dallas, TX
  • 7/07: Concrete St. Amphitheatre, Corpus Christi, TX
  • 7/08: Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
  • 7/10: UCF Arena, Orlando, FL
  • 7/11: House of Blues, N. Myrtle Beach, SC
  • 7/13: The Palladium, Worcester, MA
  • 7/14: Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ
  • 7/15: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
  • 7/16: Millennium Center, Winston-Salem, NC
  • 7/18: Kool Haus, Toronto, ON
  • 7/19: State Theatre, Detroit, MI
  • 7/20: Eagles Complex, Milwaukee, WI
  • 7/21: Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre, Cleveland, OH
  • 7/22: Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus, OH
  • 7/23: Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL
  • 7/24: Myth, St. Paul, MN
  • 7/27: Macewan Hall Ballroom, Calgary, AB
  • 7/28: Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton, AB
  • 7/30: Expo Center, Portland, OR
  • 8/01: The Great Salt Air, Salt Lake City, UT
  • 8/03: Events Center, San Jose, CA
  • 8/04: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA
  • 8/05: Mesa Amphitheatre, Mesa, AZ
  • 8/06: House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
  • 8/08: Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
  • 8/10: Pop’s, Sauget, IL
  • 8/11: Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, KY

7/06-8/11: w/Gwar, Shadows Fall, Chimaira, Every Time I Die, Job for a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Amon Amarth, the Acacia Strain, the Devil Wears Prada, Heavy Heavy Low Low, the Number Twelve Looks Like You, Goatwhore, This is Hell, 2 Cents

7/14: w/All That Remains, Testament
7/21-7/24: w/Mushroomhead
8/03-8/03: w/Suicidal Tendencies
8/11: w/Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Behemoth

www.necrohiphop.com
www.myspace.com/necro
www.soundsoftheundergroundtour.com

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