{"id":69480,"date":"2017-08-07T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=69480"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:11:14","slug":"travel-to-the-doom-side-of-the-moon-with-kyle-schutt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/travel-to-the-doom-side-of-the-moon-with-kyle-schutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel to the Doom Side of the Moon<\/i> with Kyle Shutt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Right now, you’re on a heavy metal blog whose audience tends to dig Pink Floyd<\/strong>. At least I would hope that to be true, as\u00a0many heavy metal bands would certainly cite them as a major influence. And we have always\u00a0known that Kyle Shutt (of The Sword<\/strong> fame) was a serious fan of heavy metal\u00a0— but now it’s clear how much he also appreciates this seminal progressive rock band. Here is his doom-flavored cover of their 1973 masterpiece The<\/em>\u00a0Dark Side of the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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So yeah,\u00a0Kyle Shutt is one talented guitar player and can write some amazing riffs (oh, like, pick any<\/em> song off The Sword’s first two albums). I gladly trusted\u00a0the dude when it was\u00a0announced he would be making a doom-inspired\u00a0cover of DSotM, I believed that he could pull such a thing off\u00a0with the ambition and the skill of a dedicated Floyd fan. Sure enough, we are here to discuss a project that works! Quite well, in fact. (This is a positive review overall, so while I may do a little\u00a0nitpicking here and there, know that it is definitely “a good”.)<\/p>\n

The Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> is arguably Floyd’s best album, but nobody can dispute that it is\u00a0perfect (the band just happened to be capable of topping “perfect” with Animals<\/em>). This is\u00a0one expertly-arranged\u00a0collection of intricately crafted songs. There’s even a dang documentary out there explaining all the work that went into its making. If for some reason you aren’t a Pink Floyd fan, or have never given this whole entire album a proper chance (maybe you’re young, I dunno), do it. Now. {We’ll wait for you.} Kyle’s doom interpretation gets most of the job done, and I use the word “most” because Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> doesn’t always run at a slower, doom appropriate pace. Many of the tracks on there lend themselves beautifully to the doom sub-genre, but a few gain nothing from said\u00a0treatment. What I mean to say is that most tracks, especially “Time” and “Money”, really benefit from the harder-edge distorted guitars; but a couple feel too close to the source material. Here, the whole thing is available on YouTube, give it a listen:<\/p>\n