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For press inquiries, please contact info gladiatormanagement. Festival to perform cuts from their new album, Blade of the Ronin , as well as all of the classics. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, so head over to PopMontreal. The group is set to perform at this legendary festival on Saturday evening. For tickets and more info, please click here. Purchase Blade of the Ronin on iTunes Now. Vast Aire and Vordul Mega reflect on their creative process, their inspirations in making the new album and Saturday morning cartoons.

Staying in-tune with the original, Skylab graces the track with pounding percussions, while adding a unique touch of airy synths and strings to mix. A bit of autobiographical perspective: Back then, I was a Rawkus-steeped real hip-hop Nas partisan who thankfully temporarily rejected every pop-friendly move Jay-Z and Mystikal were making. And it was the dissolution of that latter group that acted as one of the most important catalysts. The transition from Co Flow to that next phase was captured on one of the first-ever releases on the label that would grow to define underground hip-hop in the aughts.

These tracks were diabolical, alternately hard-to-penetrate and brutally direct, seizing immediate attention only to burrow in the brain even deeper with each listen. El-P had rented a cheap pre-gentrification apartment where he and his rapper friends could live, hang out, and record — a sort of flophouse where artists could cohabitate, decompress, and focus on their work.

El singled out Vast and Vordul as two Atoms Fam members who stood out in particular: the former, a deliberate, measured, almost hectoring presence on the mic who rapped like he kept the caps lock button glued down; the latter a word-hemmorhaging poet with a flow that would deke you out of your Timbs. The rest followed like it was easy, and maybe it was — The Cold Vein was written in a relaxed but concentrated environment of friendship, rapport, jokes, and commiseration, letting their individual styles become indelible as a pair of compatible contrasts.

Their voices were what got attention; their words were what kept it. If Vast was the booming extrovert making damn sure you catch every nuance, Vordul was the more allusive and elusive introvert who rapped like he was unloading all his ideas on the first person he spoke to in weeks. We all felt kind of vulnerable, and it made us get real focused. Vast laughs. We just pay attention to the city around us, and learn and strive every day to do better.

They have accumulated a lot of these stories since the last Cannibal Ox album. Blade: The Art of Ox, Gotham, Harlem Knights and Iron Rose paint a picture of lives underscored by ambition, sadness, struggle and ultimately transcendence — even if these earnest subjects are leavened with a fair helping of martial arts, comic books and weed. It is, says Vast with his usual mix of goofiness and portentuousness, just the Cannibal Ox way.

Superman has felt weak, at certain times.