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Czarface Meets Metal Face

2018 studio album by Czarface and MF Doom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ48817448 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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".

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Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

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“Czarface Meets Metal Face” enters the record as 2018 studio album by Czarface and MF Doom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Czarface, Meets and Metal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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