A pioneer of ultra-extreme hip-hop (he calls his style acid-rap), Esham is a Detroit legend who's been cranking out his brand of super-hardcore music for more than two decades now. His 1989 debut, Boomin' Words from Hell, dropped when he was just 13. He's been at it ever since, releasing a dozen more albums, influencing acts like Eminem, Insane Clown Posse, Necro, and the short-lived horrorcore movement. Though his style is way too intense to make much of an impact on Billboard or SoundScan, he has a large and devoted cult following that eagerly awaits each new release. The follow-up to 2010's DMT Sessions, Venus Flytrap is supposedly his last studio album. It characteristically pulls no punches, with a mind-boggling 31 tracks and absolutely zero guest appearances. Ominously freaked-out beats and hatched-in-hell lyricism dominate, with vivid stories about zombies, mutants, housing projects, scandalous hoochies, Satan, Michael Jackson, and psychoactive chemicals galore.