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Styles of Beyond brings “Rocket Surgery” to Projekt Revolution tour

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Rap-friendly metal band Linkin Park is preparing to release its third full-length album, Minutes to Midnight, and has already announced an itinerary for its summer-long Projekt Revolution. Amidst a horde of emo bands is Styles of Beyond. "We’re the only rap group on this sucka, so feel free to break out the Running Man, Roger Rabbit, or the Chicken Noodle Soup while we’re rockin’!!" wrote the band in a May 10 MySpace post.

That’s all fine and good, you might say, but what’s up with the f***in album? According to an April 10 post on SOB’s MySpace page, the group has finished their forthcoming album on Linkin Park rapper/producer Mike Shinoda’s Warner Bros.-distributed imprint, Machine Shop Recordings.

"We are just about done with the album and we’ve finally picked a title (drum roll please…) ROCKET SURGERY. Cause hip-hop ain’t brain science," writes Ryoji Shinozaki, who manages SOB member DJ Cheapshot’s boutique label Spy Tech Records. He goes on to write that Rocket Surgery will come out in June/July, but an official release date is still pending.

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Styles of Beyond cracking on new album

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It’s been almost four long-ass years since Styles of Beyond dropped their last album, the slightly disappointing Megadef. Some of you new jacks — and is it me, or does it seem like every major indie rapper is over 30? — may not remember that, back in the late 90s, the L.A. group was supposed to be one of the groups that blew up, thanks to the underground classic 2000 Fold.

But after all the crappy record deals and almost nearly breaking up, Styles found fortune with Mike Shinoda, the rap guy from Linkin Park. Shinoda featured them heavily on his solo bow as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied, took them on tour, and signed them to his boutique label, Machine Shop/Warner Bros. Styles have been "in the studio" for a while now, but it finally seems as if their trials and tribulations will come to fruition. A third Styles album is tentatively scheduled to drop in July, according to a Warner Bros. rep.

Ryu, who shares the group with Takbir, producer Vin Skully and DJ Cheapshot, posted an update on Styles’ MySpace page. He mentioned collabos with hyphy production dynamo Rick Rock from Federation, J-Dilla (R.I.P.), Apathy, Divine Styler, Celph Titled and the RZA.

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