What does it mean to redefine oneself, to evolve beyond a troubled past in pursuit of the person you were always meant to be? Carnage The Executioner, the Minnesota-based artist, now also known as TERRELL X, tackles these questions in his 13th studio album: TRANSFORMATION TO TERRELL X.

The multi-angular Ravenous theme runs the gamut from hungry rap metaphors to a more literal dietary epiphany. The bar-heavy braggadocio is thick from the start, but this is not the same Carnage we’ve heard before.

Enters Minneapolis-based Improvisational Jazz Beat Boxer/Hip-Hop Emcee and Artist, Carnage The Executioner: machine, technician, and professor bearing all qualifications needed for task completion. He’s fully powered up with the design of saving the live show programmed into his mainframe.

There exists quite a few adjectives that apply to Carnage The Executioner when speaking of his brand of live performance. Some descriptors, such as intense, abnormal & immodest lead to differing opinions. Despite whatever arguments come about, some that’ll never come up are: lazy, lackluster, and unoriginal.

Carnage The Executioner challenges the overall truth surrounding the locally-popular term with his raw, honest & undeniably boom-bap album, “The MN Mean Movement.” If being Minnesota Nice is likened to being insincere, Minnesota Mean would equate to being real.

Carnage The Executioner can bring together all of what traditional Hip-Hop enthusiasts long for with THE ULTIMATUM. This 8-song release shows off The Executioner’s unyielding ability to grow with each venture.

Carnage The Executioner’s Respect The Name album has the 40+ year-old beast sounding like a 19-year-old starving artist on a hunger strike.

Worth The Wait is where Carnage The Executioner, gives the listener a piece of THE PERSON he is and not just the ARTIST he has become. Tales of his wretched childhood upbringing, brutal honesty, and dark imagery pilot this album.

“Carnage always seems willing to share the focus, so it’s not much of a shock that it’s taken him almost a decade to drop a disc with his name as the most prominent one—and even then, producer Booka B’s name is still the same size on the spine.”

In 2014, Carnage The Executioner released Carnage The Executioner’s Carnology Volume II: Sinner Takes All, continuing the Carnology series where it had left off in 2004. This release marks the 10-year anniversary of his Hecatomb label. The special digi-mix, “Slashed & Mashed” by DJ X-Caliber, blended manipulated Carnage The Executioner tracks, rarities, and obscure bangers previously unknown to many listeners.