{"id":108417,"date":"2021-05-28T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=108417"},"modified":"2021-05-28T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:50:31","slug":"flush-it-friday-cross-genre-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/flush-it-friday-cross-genre-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Flush It Friday: Cross-Genre Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On good music from genres you dislike <\/p>\n

Listening to the new Yautja<\/strong> album<\/a>, I came to the conclusion that, while it totally rips, I don’t care much for the guitar tone. It’s fine for what they’re doing musically, but it sounds just a bit too muted or muffled, lacking something somewhere that I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s also the same type of tone you’ll hear from something about 99.9% of stoner bands out there, which got me thinking about\u00a0that<\/em> genre, which made\u00a0Horseburner<\/strong> pop into my head.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the point of all these tangents is that while I generally don’t care for stoner doom, Horseburner are an exception, perhaps\u00a0the<\/em> exception. This band goes so far above and beyond the “what if\u00a0Black Sabbath<\/strong> but slower and with worse vocals and shit guitar tone” trappings of the style that they may as well just be their own thing entirely. Their 2019 album,\u00a0The Thief<\/em>, showcases some wonderful instrumental work, replete with dueling guitars, a good grasp of dynamics, all kinds of changes in texture through smart production… it’s just great. As someone who feels stoner metal is anathema, I wholeheartedly recommend it. You owe it to yourself to check this out.<\/p>\n