New Additions: The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane album by Necropolis

For a period of time in the 2000s, Columbus Discount Records became the most proficient label around town, putting out challenging, artistic work from a variety of bands, including Necropolis. It helped that two of three operators of CDR were also members of the band, who mostly put out 7" singles, but did manage the 2006 album The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane, which I picked up via trip not to long ago to one of the local record stores (I forgot which one, sorry!). Though a bit more experimental and noise oriented then my usual preferences, what is interesting is hearing the lineage of sounds that recall the works of Jim Shepard or Mike "Rep" Hummel from thirty years earlier.