Chuck D, DJ Spooky & Lombardo do album

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Chuck D. DJ Spooky & Slayer's Dave Lombardo Team For 'Drums Of Death'

By Roman Wolfe

Date: 5/9/2005 2:00 PM

Chuck D., Dave Lombardo and DJ Spooky have teamed up to create a new heavy metal meets Hip-Hop album, called Drums of Death.

According to Spooky, the album blurs the lines of various genres of music.

“Right now it seems much more like everything has become so compartmentalized,” Spooky told Wired Magazine. “I want to make a genre that's a blur -- where your iPod is malfunctioning, and next thing you know your hip-hop is in the rock section of your playlist, and your rock has gone over to your dub section, and your reggae section is mixed into your jazz and your classical music is sprinkled over everything.”

Spooky said that Chuck D. raps in a style more that will remind the discerning listener of Public Enemy’s first two albums, Yo! Bum Rush The Show and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Additionally, Slayer’s Lombardo was the only portion of the album that was recorded live. Spooky said Chuck sent his files in for the album.

Slayer’s sound should be familiar to fans of the group, as Public Enemy sampled the group’s song Angel of Death on the hard rock tinged – “She Watch Channel Zero,” taken from 1989’s It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us back album.

While Flavor Flav is absent from the project for creative reasons, Spooky created a synthetic voice for the album.

“We ended up making a synthetic voice to replace Flav that kind of evoked the same kind of call and response,” Spooky said. “So Chuck D does his thing and instead of going back and forth (with Flava Flav), it goes to the computer.”

Drums of Death hit stores on April 26th.

Source: AllHipHop.com

That's ...interesting, to say the least. I want to hear something from this album.

[Hellfire]

It sounds interesting to say the least, I'll give it a listen or two at least.

[Colly]

Flava Flav is absent through creative reasons? Well if talking to Keith Harris and Orville is creative these days I must be some kind of artist extraordinaire. I could make millions!

[prime time]

Could be interesting, I just wish that Flava Flav had been included.

[Jukeboksi]

Sounds very interesting, especially the part about DJ Spooky being one of the mainorganizers. I think I'll get this CD...

[tristy]

Flava Flav isn't on this?

THERE IS A GOD!