Eminem has surprised his fans with the release of an unannounced new album.
With no warning, the rapper dropped Music to be Murdered By overnight (find our verdict here).
It his eleventh studio record overall and the first since he released Kamikaze in 2018.
The album, which runs for over an hour, features collaborations with Anderson .paak, Skylar Grey and the late rapper Juice Wrld, who died aged 21 in December 2019.
Its cover depicts Slim Shady wearing a suit as he holds a spade.
He shared an alternative cover on Twitter, which shows him holding an axe and a gun to his head. He told his followers it was inspired by a famous photo of Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock, whom he called “the master, Uncle Alfred.”
Eminem also released a music video for one of the album’s tracks, “Darkness”.
Kamikaze was also dropped unannounced in 2018 and swiftly hit number one on the Billboard 200 in the US. Listen to Music to be Murdered By below.
Eminem released his first ever album, Infinite, in 1996, which he followed up with the hugely successful Slim Shady LP in 1999.
