Horrorcore feels like a very complicated way to make hip-hop music. First you got to have a concept behind the performer. Then you have to have a concept behind each album, because a lot of horrorcore albums that are most compelling are concept albums. It's understandable why rappers end up doing this, because if you start out just trying to rap, you might just end up striking out, and a lot of horrorcore rappers are guys that tried to make it as gangsta rappers but didn't. So there's a
Friday the 13th theme to this album's art and the main character described in "Inbred Evil" appears to be the evil product of incest doomed to vicious cruelty by the product of his sibling coupling birth, but how does the album
sound? Well, there's a country/hip-hop fusion on tracks like "Heathen", "Straight Out the Crops" and "Outlaw", and this is one side of Boondox's influences that I feel should've been explored more, since ironically, for a performer who's not at all focused on country rap and one of the genre's most extreme outliers, Boondox ends up being one of the genre's more compelling performers, since country rap is a fusion that unfortunately more often than not is a better idea on paper than it is in execution, and taking a horrorcore approach to the genre reminds you that country used to have more murder ballads and edge to it before being homogenized by Music Row.
