There Existed an Addiction to Blood

Released

It’s almost some cosmic joke on the intersection of mainstream culture and the avant-garde that one of noise-rap’s most abrasive groups is fronted by a man who’s halfway to an EGOT because of his part in Hamilton. But give this to Daveed Diggs: put some morbid, hissing synthesizers and snares that sound like sudden-onset chills beneath him, and his scenarios start sounding a lot more like John Carpenter’s than Lin-Manuel Miranda’s. There Existed an Addiction to Blood follows in the traditions of Gravediggaz and Three 6 Mafia in making the trappings of horror fit so naturalistically into hip-hop’s familiar themes, where the grotesque is highlighted in every corner of the game from police violence to mafioso cruelty to racist bloodlust.

Nate Patrin

Suggestions
20 Jazz Funk Greats cover

20 Jazz Funk Greats

Throbbing Gristle
Totem cover

Totem

White Suns
The Fragile cover

The Fragile

Nine Inch Nails
Dogsbody cover

Dogsbody

Model/Actriz
MB III cover

MB III

Moodie Black
LP cover

LP

Container
Shadow of Fear cover

Shadow of Fear

Cabaret Voltaire