''Anghellic'' is the third studio album by American rapper
Tech N9ne
Aaron Dontez Yates (born November 8, 1971), better known by his stage name Tech N9ne (pronounced "tech nine"), is an American rapper. In 1999, he and business partner Travis O'Guin founded the record label Strange Music. He has sold over two ...
from
Kansas City, Missouri. It was released on August 28, 2001 via Universal Music Group imprint
JCOR Entertainment
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, and was re-released as ''Anghellic: Reparation'' in 2003 via
Strange Music
Strange Music is an American independent record label specializing in hip hop music and founded by Tech N9ne and Travis O'Guin in 1999.
History
In 2009 Skatterman & Snug Brim fulfilled their commitment to Strange Music and left the label.
In ...
after conflicts with JCOR Entertainment during its original release. The album peaked at number 59 on the
''Billboard'' 200.
In 2001, the song "Tormented" appeared in a scene of the television series ''
Dark Angel'', playing for nearly two minutes in the background of a bar scene contained in the season two episode "Two". In 2009, ''
Fangoria
''Fangoria'' is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. It is published four times a year by Fangoria Publishing, LLC and is edited by Phil Nobile Jr.
The magazine was originally released i ...
'' named it as an iconic
horrorcore
Horrorcore, also called horror hip hop, horror rap, death hip hop, or death rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed and often darkly transgressive lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from certain hardcore hip ho ...
album.
Track listing
Notes
* signifies a co-
producer
Track listing
;Sample credits
Hellevator
* Clips from ''
Hellraiser
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''
Sinister Tech
* Uses the roar of Gabara in the film ''
Godzilla's Revenge
is a 1969 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film, which was produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, is the tenth film in the ''Godzilla'' series, and featur ...
''
Psycho Messages / Psycho Bitch
*"
Halloween theme" by
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
Here I Come
*"
Für Elise
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" by
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
Twisted
*"
I Want to Be Your Man" by
Zapp & Roger
Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band, Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, United States, in 1977. Particularly influential in the electro subgenre of funk, Zapp were known for their trademark use of the talk- ...
*"
Computer Love" by
Zapp & Roger
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Einstein
*"Einstein" by
Bobby Orlando
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released as The Beat Box Boys (1984) features the voice and music of Bobby Orlando.
PR 2K1- sampled from Drag Rap by the showboys
Charts
References
External links
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2001 albums
G-funk albums
Tech N9ne albums
Horrorcore albums
Strange Music albums