''The Pre-Fix for Death'' is the third

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, released on September 21, 2004 by Psycho+Logical-Records. Unlike his previous albums, ''The Pre-Fix for Death'' sees Necro fusing

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into several of the album's tracks. It is also the first album to feature live instrumentation by Necro himself. The album contains 17 studio tracks, one remix, five skits, an intro and an outro. Featured guest vocalists on the album include Jenny Krenwinkle, Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed,

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(albeit a

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), John Tardy of

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, Necro's brother Ill Bill, Goretex, Mr. Hyde, Sabac, Danny Diablo of Crown of Thornz, and Jenny Cassabian. Featured guest instrumentalists on the album include

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of Voivod, Sean Martin of Hatebreed, Trevor Peres of

, Dan Lilker of Nuclear Assault, and Sid Wilson of Slipknot.

Track listing

*All songs are produced by

# "Intro" – 0:43 # "Beautiful Music for You to Die to" – 3:22 # "The Dispensation of Life and Death" – 3:22 # "Kill That Shit" – 3:09 # "Pre-Fix" (skit) (featuring Jenny Krenwinkle) – 0:51 # "The Pre-Fix for Death" (featuring

) – 3:49 # "Push It to the Limit" (featuring Jamey Jasta) – 3:32 # "Reflection of Children Coming Up in the Grave" (featuring

) – 4:24 # "It" (skit) – 1:08 # "Insaneology" (featuring Sean Martin, John Tardy and Dan Lilker) – 4:49 # "Nirvana" (performed by Circle of Tyrants) – 3:32 # "86 Measures of Game" – 5:17 # "Empowered" (featuring Sid Wilson, Trevor Peres, John Tardy, Away and Dan Lilker) – 3:37 # "Kid Joe" (skit) – 1:21 # "Human Consumption" – 3:52 # "Evil Shit" – 3:30 # "You Did it" – 3:17 # "Rogue" (skit) – 0:24 # "Death Rap" (featuring Sabac Red) – 3:14 # "Watch Your Back" (featuring Danny Diablo) – 3:03 # "Food for Thought" – 3:43 # "Important Statistics" (skit) – 0:38 # "Senseless Violence" (featuring Jenny Cassabian) – 3:11 # "Push it to the Limit" (NYHC Mix) (featuring Jamey Jasta) – 3:32 # "Outro" – 0:10

''The Pre-Fix for Death Instrumentals''

''The Pre-Fix for Death Instrumentals'' is the instrumental version of

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, released on June 20, 2005 by Psycho+Logical-Records. It features instrumental versions of all 18 actual songs from ''The Pre-Fix for Death'', excluding the seven skits.

Track listing

# "Beautiful Music for You to Die to" – 3:24 # "The Dispensation of Life and Death" – 3:24 # "Kill That Shit" – 3:12 # "The Pre-Fix for Death" – 3:51 # "Push it to the Limit" – 3:31 # "Reflection of Children Coming Up in the Grave" – 4:25 # "Insaneology" – 4:49 # "Nirvana" – 3:36 # "86 Measures of Game" – 4:53 # "Empowered" – 3:31 # "Human Consumption" – 3:25 # "Evil Shit" – 3:33 # "You Did it" – 3:08 # "Death Rap" – 3:16 # "Watch Your Back" – 3:08 # "Food for Thought" – 3:42 # "Senseless Violence" – 3:16 # "Push it to the Limit" (NYHC Mix) – 3:29

Trivia

* "Death Rap", in addition to being the title of the nineteenth track on the album, is also the title of Necro's fifth studio album. * The beat used in "Evil Shit" was taken from the 1976

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'' Blood Sucking Freaks'', which Necro has admitted being a fan of on numerous occasions. The chorus of the song was taken from a line in a Necro song, " Bury You with Satan", released three years prior on his second studio album ''

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''. * "The Dispensation of Life and Death" uses samples from the song "Apoteosi del mistero" performed and arranged by swedish progressive rock band Morte Macabre, featured in Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead, originally composed by

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. * The track "You Did It" samples the audio from Budd Dwyer's 1987 suicide. * The track "Push it to the Limit" uses lyrics from "

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", a song from the 1983 gangster

'' Scarface'', in its chorus. The beat was also sampled from the 1981 kung-fu flick called " The Guy with the Secret Kung Fu."

Personnel

– vocals, guitar,

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, arranging, composing, writing, production, mixing * Elliot Thomas – engineering, mixing * Charles De Monterello – mastering * Elliot Thomas – mixing * Jenny Krenwinkle – guest vocals *

– guest

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, songwriting * Jamey Jasta – guest vocals *

– guest vocals * Dan Lilker – guest bass, songwriting * Sean Martin – guest guitar, songwriting * John Tardy – guest vocals, songwriting * Goretex – guest vocals, songwriting * Ill Bill – guest vocals, songwriting * Mr. Hyde – guest vocals, songwriting * Trevor Peres – guest guitar, songwriting * Sid Wilson – guest scratches, songwriting * The Kid Joe – guest vocals * Sabac – guest vocals, songwriting * Danny Diablo – guest vocals, songwriting * Jenny Cassabian – guest vocals *

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– cover art

References

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