Czarface Meets Metal Face

Czarface Meets Metal Face is the first collaborative album by American hip hop supergroup Czarface and British-American rapper MF Doom. It was released on March 30, 2018 through Get On Down, a Boston-based record label. The album features guest appearances from Vinnie Paz, Open Mike Eagle, Blacastan and Kendra Morris. It was the last release by MF Doom before his death on October 31, 2020.

Czarface Meets Metal Face
Studio album by Czarface and MF Doom
Released	March 30, 2018 (2018-03-30)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	43:37
Label	Get On Down Silver Age
Producer	7L Jeremy Page Todd Spadafore
Czarface chronology
First Weapon Drawn (2017) Czarface Meets Metal Face (2018) Czarface Meets Ghostface (2019)
MF Doom chronology
The Missing Notebook Rhymes (2017) Czarface Meets Metal Face (2018) Super What? (2021)
Singles from Czarface Meets Metal Face
"Nautical Depth" Released: February 8, 2018 "Bomb Thrown" Released: March 20, 2018

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.6/10[1]
Metacritic	75/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The 405	6.5/10[3]
AllMusic	[4]
The A.V. Club	B−[5]
The Guardian	[6]
HipHopDX	4.3/5[7]
NME	[8]
Pitchfork	6.4/10[9]
RapReviews	8.5/10[10]
Vice (Expert Witness)	[11]

The two previously collaborated on the song "Ka-Bang!" on Czarface's 2015 album Every Hero Needs a Villain, and 2017's First Weapon Drawn.

Reception

Czarface Meets Metal Face received generally favourable reviews upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 75, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Take Your Medicine"	0:52
2.	"Meddle with Metal"	3:26
3.	"Badness of Madness"	2:56
4.	"Close Talker"	0:50
5.	"Forever People"	3:20
6.	"Captain Crunch"	3:57
7.	"Don't Spoil It"	1:39
8.	"Phantoms" (featuring Open Mike Eagle)	4:19
9.	"Bomb Thrown"	4:32
10.	"You Masked for It"	1:22
11.	"Astral Traveling" (featuring Vinnie Paz)	3:50
12.	"Nautical Depth" (featuring Blacastan)	3:31
13.	"Stun Gun"	2:03
14.	"MF Czar"	3:22
15.	"Captain Brunch"	2:29
16.	"Sleeping Dogs"	1:09
Total length:		43:37

All music is composed by The Czar-Keys (George Andrinopoulos, Jeremy Page & Todd Spadafore).

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.^[12]

Musicians

• Inspectah Deck – vocals, composer (all tracks)
• Esoteric – vocals, composer (all tracks)
• MF Doom – vocals, composer (all tracks)
• Blacastan – rude boy vocals (track 12)
• Godforbid – mask specialist (track 10)
• Yuki Kanesaka – interlude keys
• Josh Mac – vocals (track 5)
• Sam Merrick – drums (track 12)
• Kendra Morris – vocals (tracks 8, 9)
• Open Mike Eagle – featured vocals (track 8)
• Vinnie Paz – featured vocals (track 11)
• Morgan Price – flute (track 3), saxophone (track 15)
• Joe Stratton – vocals (track 5)

Production The Czar-Keys[a] – production (all tracks) Caserta – audio mixing (all tracks) 7L – vocal engineering (all tracks) Esoteric – vocal engineering (all tracks) Jason Bitner – vocal engineering (all tracks) Adam J. Brass – vocal engineering (all tracks)

Design L'amour Supreme – cover art Alfredo Rico-Dimas – layout and design

Charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
Scottish Albums (OCC)[13]	76
US Billboard 200[14]	134
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[15]	37
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[16]	18
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[17]	5
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[18]	1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[19]	5

Notes

1. The Czar-Keys consist of 7L, Jeremy Page, and Todd Spadafore.