Necropanther Put The Book of Change Online a Day Early

Robin Aalto · November 12, 2026

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Photo: Decibel Magazine

Necropanther have put The Book of Change online in full through Decibel, a day before the record arrives on CD and digitally. We wrote about it when the album was dated and explained; this is the whole thing.

Ten songs, the fifth album, and no label on any of it. The Denver four piece has released a record roughly every two years for a decade without signing to anybody, which is the part worth sitting with: the album was produced by the band, engineered by Felipe Patino at Green Door Recordings in Denver, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity in Salem and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side. Two of those names turn up on records with budgets behind them.

Paul Anop plays guitar and sings, Marcus Corich plays bass and sings, Joe Johnson plays guitar and Adam Frost drums. Johnson says the record works through metamorphosis as it appears in The Tempest, The Thing, The Fly, Faust and the arcade game Rampage, which is a list that explains the music better than a genre would.