….so, who else is hype for this album? I know I am. I only found out about it through the banner on the mainpage. I don’t do social media, so to find out about anything going on with LSP I really need to dig or I find out about it by accident. 

I always found Geno to be the stronger musical element to Dark Half, similar to how Liquid Assassin was the superior MC in Grave Plott. To see these two obviously talented forces come together for a (for me, at least) unexpected collaboration album has me more excited for it than for anything coming out on Psy, MNE or Strange this year and that’s real.

Last year’s ‘A Beautiful Curse’ surprised me in the best way. I purchased it almost out of a sense of respectful duty- I was honestly only a casual fan of Dark Half, but felt as though Geno Cultshit’s swan song deserved due diligence because I respected the impact they’ve made in the game even before Geno’s passing. Thing is, there’s a lot of legitimately good music on that album. Paint by numbers horrorcore is the standard for groups on Dark Half’s level, but Geno’s album accomplished something more by introducing flavors of blues and circa-2000’s hard rock (a sound which I typically despise) into his vocal melodies. This hints to a level of musical understanding and competency which underscores the tragedy of his death since we as an audience will never get to hear it develop. 

This is made more poignant by the album’s frequent ruminations on death and the suggestion of its immediate inevitability. It’s genuinely chilling when put into full context, and those mournful roots ground the music as, what I consider to be, a certifiable work of art.

Geno’s story is sort of the inverse of Sam McCroskey in that regard, in that this is another person whom the music and the reality of death are axiomatically connected in the legacy of their work. The difference being that one’s legacy will be celebrated, and its architect will be missed. A destroyed creator versus a creator who destroyed. Both distinct identities in this culture of horrorcore. It would be wise to remember that this is, fundamentally, a culture of entertainment. But it is also a culture rooted in the reality of death, and these two will by the latter’s savagely impassable nature intersect at odd points in history.

Sorry for the rant, fellas. I legit just wanted to talk about how hype I am for the album but these thoughts just hit me all at once. What do y’all think about it all?