Artist Profile

Necro Deathmort

Label: Distraction Records/Unsigned
Agent: Mark Lewis

Matthew Rozeik and AJ Cookson raise their ignoble heads on 'This Beat Is
Necrotronic'- Doom's answer to 'Entroducing'.

Despite the funny album title and funny band name and funny song titles, it isn’t a funny album at all. It’s heavy and deep and moody. The beats—yes, there are beats—are, um, fat. Fat in that deep dub/cavernous John Bonham kinda way. No, I’m not calling John Bonham fat. The doom riffs are likewise hefty and spacious. The mixing of electronics, beats and doom metal is also entirely successful. Maybe it makes sense that this duo come from the U.K., where some new dubstep releases are deeper, darker and more fucked up than a lot of recent U.K. metal.  This stuff sounds organic, you dig? All future experimental dub metal artists should look to this duo (and also Justin Broadrick’s Bug, Ice, Godflesh and Techno Animal) to see how to get it done.

—Scott Seward

"[the duo] blend low-level hip-hop beats with Scorn-esque bass and elonated guitar riffs to remarkable effect. . . it's that awesome. . . the music is superb, the artwork and packaging equally good. . . warped shuffling genius. 300% necro, foo'!" - Zero Tolerance

"Weedy attempts at Iommian riffage" - Rocksound

"This has me foxed...one minute it's Sunn O))), the next it's Squarepusher." - Vice magazine

"No word of a lie, Necro Deathmort will be in my top ten at the end of the year. Their album "This Beat Is Necrotronic" is a triumph... the most original record I've heard in what seems like an aeon... the kind that'd give Stephen O'Malley a ten tonne stonk-on, with a rumbling subwoofer molesting bass attack that'd induce pant shitting for miles around." - Chronicles Of Chaos 

"Heavy, deep and moody... the mixing of electronics, beats and doom metal is entirely sucessful. I wish this album were longer. All future experimental dub metal artists should look to this album to see how to get ’er done." - Decibel Magazine

"[an] album that every death metal idiot was too clunky, too loud and too lumpen to make, this is the album that Nick Cave should play at home" - Unpeeled

"For fans of acts such as Earth, Growing and Jesu, This Beat is Necrotronic is likely to be a hugely enjoyable purchase. . . a splendid debut turned all the way up to eleven, and one which deserves your attention." - Bearded magazine

"All in all, the album is made up of dark, twisted brilliance. (4/5)" - NARC magazine

"This Beat is Necrotronic is a wonderful album. This music is as hard as nails and as deep as it is loud." - Buzzin' Music

"If you're looking for an aural definition of the word "uncompromising" then this is it." - The Crack