BACKXWASH
“I THINK GENRE lines are blurring all the time,” says Montreal-based rapper Backxwash. “Experimentation is crucial for every genre these days. I think back to someone like Screaming Jay Hawkins and wonder what it would be like to see a modern equivalent of that now and try and make it happen. He was melding all genres, never apologising for it, and scaring people at the same time.”
The conversation about what defines ‘metal’ has raged on since it was invented back at the start of the 1970s. Is metal just defined by a sound? Or
