Czarface Meets Metal Face
by Czarface/MF Doom
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 39
  3. Negative: 3 out of 39
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  1. Whiskeyclone
    Apr 12, 2018
    8
    To call this Doom's best album in over a decade may be a bit generous - not because it doesn't smoke every full release he's been in on since before the '09 self-titled album (oh, how it does!), but because Czarface does the heaviest lifting here as far as MC-ing goes. But it nails what a Doom album should sound like, he still is in more or less late-period form, and both Czarface and 7LTo call this Doom's best album in over a decade may be a bit generous - not because it doesn't smoke every full release he's been in on since before the '09 self-titled album (oh, how it does!), but because Czarface does the heaviest lifting here as far as MC-ing goes. But it nails what a Doom album should sound like, he still is in more or less late-period form, and both Czarface and 7L are on absolute fire throughout. The album is non-stop funny and clever, not to mention just fun. Should it end after "MF Czar"? Sure, but what a run it is before those last two filler tracks.… Expand
  2. childofthe90s
    Apr 1, 2018
    10
    This album is fire from start to finish. there's not a single that i didn't like at all. Czarface and Doom is the antidote. i could listen to this project from front to back.
  3. cholland134
    Apr 7, 2018
    9
    This another great MF Doom project. I havent listened to Czarface before but will have to go check them out now. Overall Esoteric, Inspectah Deck, and MF rip these tracks with tightly constructed flows and bars. The production is also pretty great but not as good as it could have been. Still a great listen for anyone who loves top line lyricism and character play.
  4. Thefish45
    Apr 3, 2018
    10
    Doom fans, Wu Tang fans, and Czarface followers rejoice! This album is fire from start to finish. Conscious and creative.
  5. gwtl
    Apr 5, 2018
    10
    You know if this is for you. Excellent boom bap production, colorful samples, tight lyrics and cadences. Support this type of hip hop - it's getting more and more rare!

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. The Wire
    Jul 12, 2018
    80
    This is music strapped for battle, the beats tooled up and live-sounding, the loops and details kept to a brute minimum by Doom so that the lines, and guest spots from Vinnie Paz and Open Mike Eagle, can really punch through. [May 2018, p.63]
  2. RapReviews.com
    Jul 3, 2018
    85
    Yes true believers these villains are definitely up to no good, but they're just the anti-heroes you've been looking for. With beats and rhymes more punishing than Frank Castle, Czarface Meets Metal Face is the hip-hop for everyone who's had it up to here with mumble mouthed singing emcees.
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  3. The 405
    Apr 4, 2018
    65
    While the group’s mutual wit and sense of lyrical structure could elevate the flattest of records, the kineticism and gleeful weirdness of their individual work is bafflingly absent. Czarface Meets Metal Face is polished but never makes good on the thrills promised by their teasing enterprise ‘Ka-Bang’ off Czarface’s 2015 record Every Hero Needs A Villain.
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