2LP -Black Vinyl. Reissue of the album from 1998 that started it all forDlek, this time with six bonus tracks. Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes byJohn Morrisonand new art from Mikel Elam & Paul Romano. When Dleks debut, Negro Necro Nekros arrived in the Fall of 1998, hip-hops aesthetic and commercial conventions were in a state of upheaval. While mainstream rap had more or less completed the process of full integration into mainstream pop culture, underground hip-hop had mounted an aggressive opposition movement in response. Forged in the fires of the East Coast underground music scene in the 90s, experimental Hip Hop pioneers Dlek has spent decades carving out a unique niche fusing hardcore Hip Hop, noise and a radical approach to sound. From the very beginning, Dlek came out the gate, following in the footsteps of their predecessors Public Enemy while drawing from influences as varied as My Bloody Valentine and German experimentalists Faust, Dlek have succeeded in adding completely new textural and structural dimensions to rap music. Since 1998, theyve released seven studio albums and countless EPs, singles and collaborations. Tracklist: 1. Swollen Tongue Bums2. Three Rocks Blessed3. Images of .44 Casings4. The Untraveled Road5. Praise Be the Man6. And Hell is Coming with Us7. Pelt Is to End (Demo Instrumental)8. Gates of Dawn (Instrumental)9. Praise Be the Man (Remix)10. Cement (Demo Instrumental)11. Sweetwood Sound Session 404