Bringing A unique mixture of Rap, Industrial, Metal since 2005, New Orleans based entertainer SickTanicK has been a staple of the underground hip-hop genre “Horrorcore” originally hailing from Albuquerque New Mexico & Aurora Colorado, he is the founder of SKR – Serial Killin Records, what was one of the most prominent and popular labels in the Hip-Hop Sub-Genre. Accumulating a “Cult” like following and coining the term for his own style called “Occult Rap”. SickTanicK has been an instrumental figure in shaping the genre as a whole by being one of the most prominent and sought after producers by some of the most elite and popular names in it.
Early in 2017, Serial Killin Records was officially dismantled as a multi-artist record label and now only features SickTanicK as it’s a primary and facilitating artist. In 2018 he released what has become his most popular and highest-selling record to date, “Oculus Omnia” released to multiple positive reviews including one two years after its official release from the Legendary Alternative Press Magazine alongside artists like $uicide Boy$, Tyler The Creator, Twiztid & Many More (including albums he had production and engineering features on), saying about the album; “SickTanicK takes you to places horrorcore rarely, if ever, goes.”.
In late 2018, after the release of the highly controversial music video for “American Satan” SickTanicK was diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer and other serious health issues that forced him to take a prolonged hiatus from music, then in 2022 SickTanicK returned to release the singles “The Bad Guy”, “Monster” then, in 2023 “666”, all of which will be on his next full length album “Underground Pariah” that is estimated to finally release in early to mid 2025.
In 2024 SickTanicK teamed up with the independent Canadian True Crime podcast “The Minds Of Madness” to release “Who Killed Jennifer” a chilling look into the traumatic, and still unsolved Murder of his mother Jennifer Lynn Shirm in 1985, accompanying the 4 part podcast episodes was the heart wrenching new song, “Who Killed Jennifer” that discusses the case and his childhood growing up as a survivor of Homicide.
Management:
staff@liquidsoundagency.com
Press:
2010 Maxim Magazine article “The Horror of Horrorcore”
https://fxowen.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/the-horror-of-horrorcore-maxim-july-2010/
2014 Investigation Discovery TV Show “Web Of Lies” season 1, Episode 6 “Farmville Horror”
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/web-of-lies-investigation-discovery/farmville-horror
2014 (Music Production Credit) Soundtrack for “Behaving Badly” ft Selena Gomez, Gary Busey & Mary Louise Parker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaving_Badly_(film)
2020 Alternative Press Magazine Article “20 Horrorcore Albums that are better than your Favorite Scary Movie”
https://www.altpress.com/tags/sicktanick/
2024 Discovery Channel TV Show “Alien Encounters” TV Show season 1, episode 4 “Abduction In The Desert”
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/alien_encounters_fact_or_fiction/s01/e04
2024 The San Francisco Standard Newspaper, article “Alien Hunters Invade The Bay”
https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/01/alien-conferences-seti-sol-foundation/
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