Video: Necropolis at Bernie's in Columbus, OH August 2004

Treblezine: Transatlantic Underground - Summer 2007

San Diego music zine Treble checked out the lone Necropolis album back in their "Transatlantic Underground: Summer 2007" album reviews, check it out:

Stateside, Columbus band Necropolis have made a name for themselves with imaginative pseudonyms and suffixes (sample: “Mat Bizzarro-…Sea Monster nerd”). Recent long player The Hackled Ruff and Shoulder Mane contains admirable psychedelic, screaming Post punk. “Colors and #’s” creates the mental image of a Germs record heard over particularly bad radio reception while Night of the Living Dead occurs outside. “Innerspace” is almost lounge music as played by the Cramps and Husker Du, and David Thomas would be proud of “To the Bar.” The record is becoming a regular on my speakers, and several non-album tracks on Myspace exhibit great snotty intelligence.

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.

Know Yer Band: Necropolis

Band: Necropolis

Members
Adam Smith
Benjamin Holesapple
Bo Davis
Emily Davis
Kyle Heiberger
Mat Bisaro

Releases
2005 - Stalking Mark E. Smith Around NYC 7" single (Columbus Discount Records)
2006 - The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane album (Columbus Discount Records)
2007 - Song For A Working Man / Cocksuckerbastardmotherfucker 7" single (Columbus Discount Records)
2007 - Stumpf b/w Van V. Art 7" single (Columbus Discount Records)
2009 - Love Theme From Necropolis 7" single (Columbus Discount Records)