The band Slaughterhouse debuted in 2002 with their album, “Slaughterhouse Music.” The band is not as well-known as their new executive producer, Eminem, but it has the potential to be so.

Their new album, “Welcome to: OUR HOUSE,” has already spiked great interest in the music community. Part of the success of this brand new album is from the various featured artists within the album itself. Eminem and Skylar Grey perform in the songs “Our House,” “Rescue Me,” and “Asylum,” and CeeLo Green sings with Slaughterhouse in the album’s most popular track so far, “My Life.”

The participation of influential characters in the music business is not the only thing giving this album a boost into the upper echelons of hiphop music. It is also because the news songs have a similar style to Eminem’s.  The trends and popularity of this album, in comparison to their older works, may have something to do with this change in their style. The band went from an older rap style and beat to a newer, more modern and trending style.

Slaughterhouse’s album is rated explicit and for good reason. Using vulgar terms and ideas, they definitely get their point across.  Along with the vulgarity, the songs have a more aggressive beat, with hard bass. Like Eminem, their lyrics, or raps, are cleverly written with the rhythm patterns of the music and use more off beats and rests than the typical rap style.

Overall, their newest album is an evolved version of Slaughterhouse, which was just released on August twenty-eighth of this year. In the first week of sales, they sold fifty-two thousand copies of their Shady Records debut album and came in #2 on the Billboard charts that same week. I recommend “Welcome to: OUR HOUSE” to anyone who likes Eminem’s style, but would like to hear music with some different, distinctive characteristics.