Lovingly pinched from Sea of Tranquility: Set the Dial by US sludgesters Black Tusk belongs to the category of more uptempo sludge metal releases, where the hardcore punk influences which undeniably are an integral part of sludge metal, are given more prominence than the stoner and doom influences, which are normally the most salient aspects of the genre.
The sound itself is very sludgy with heavy and gritty, fuzzy guitars and an overall more organic production, but the heavy beats that characterize the sludge metal genre are, with some exceptions, almost non-present on the album. As mentioned above Set the Dial is generally uptempo, and, while some tracks ar eon the verge of thrash metal tempo, most of them are kept at a solidly forward-going hardrocking pace, and the abrasive yelled vocals are a direct link from Set the Dial to hardcore punk.
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