Ever since the release of MF Doom’s Operation Doomsday, former KMD frontman Zev Luv X has created a legion of fans that worship the Temple Of Doom and just about every release he’s attached his name to. Latest out the gate is the debut album from King Geedorah, a new manifestation of MF Doom that comes in the form of a three-headed monster, based on the Godzilla movie character of the same name.

Written, performed, produced, arranged, and mixed by MF Doom, Take Me To Your Leader meets somewhere in between Operation Doomsday and Escape From Monster Island. At best, Doom has his moments where he’s rocking the mic solo, such as on the opener “Fazers”, where he shows off trademark sound, robbing a cinematic soundtrack sample and haphazardly looping it with a simple hard-hitting drum break, spitting Ghostface Killah-like rhetoric that sounds incredibly dope no matter how nonsensical it sounds. The same can be said for the ridiculous outro “The Fine Print”, where Doom spits more riddling rhymes over another incredible horn loop layered with a bare bones beat box drum. While he teases us with a short one verse stanza on “The Final Hour”, its transformation into the largely instrumental based “Monster Zero” still hold the listener’s attention, as he manipulates a number of eerie instrumental and vocal samples from various b-movies.

Meanwhile, Doom splits up much of the rest of the album sharing the mics with other emcees, and in all truth he steals the show virtually every time. While Mr. Fantastik holds his own next Doom on melodic “Anti-Matter”, and Rodan shines with his varying tempos over the super-experimental “No Snakes Alive”, many of the other emcees leave much to be desired, struggling to outshine Doom’s excellent and eccentric production. Not to mention, considering that many of these beats have been previously released on the Special Herbs instrumental albums, it’s a little harder to appreciate them a second time around. And let’s not even bring Nastradoomus into the equation, because once you’ve heard Nas spit “Life We Chose” over the same beat used for “Next Levels” the other emcees don’t hold a candle (all due respect, but it’s Nas).

But whether Doom is spitting alone or alongside friends, he is the master of the abstract style. It’s one that isn’t too abstract to the point that it is unlistenable, but he instead takes a different, non-traditional approaching to making beats; one that is at surface value is sloppily thrown together, but also has the care of classic 80′s hip-hop.

While Take Me To Your Leader isn’t exactly the follow-up to Operation Doomsday that heads may be drooling for, it’s still a hearty enough helping of Metal Face madness to hold heads over at least until Doom’s other three projects drop this year.