It’s wise to take most things you read on social media with a grain of salt. With that in mind, when the Straight reaches Tanner Petulla at home in Los Angeles, a little clarification is in order.

On December 14, Petulla, known for the bass-bombed EDM tracks he produces under the name Getter, announced on Facebook that among his planned projects for 2017 are a pair of releases exploring very different genres: rap and heavy metal.

It turns out he wasn’t kidding.

“I’m about six tracks deep right now on the hip-hop one,” Petulla reveals. “It’s just me rapping with my friends over my beats. And I’ve been writing metal for a couple of years, but I found recently that you can do it all by yourself with MIDI instruments, so I’m basically producing the drums and the guitar, and then I’m doing vocals over it. By the time everything’s ready there’s going to be two EDM EPs, and then a metal album and a rap album. So there’ll be, like, 30 tracks.”

Petulla clearly has no interest in being classified as a single-genre artist. Even though most of his output falls under the EDM umbrella generally and that of bass music more specifically, it isn’t always easy to categorize.

Getter’s two most recent releases for Skrillex’s OWSLA label—the EPs Radical Dude! and Wat the Frick—showcase the work of a man who gleefully blurs the lines between robot-rumble dubstep, woofer-blasting trap, and bomb-squad hip-hop. You can call Getter’s music whatever you like, or you can follow the producer’s lead and refuse to call it anything.

“I just describe it as music,” Petulla says. “I feel like people are too scared to do what they want, because they don’t want to upset their brand or some shit. But at the end of the day, with where music is now, the music is maybe 20 percent of what actually matters now. And it sucks, but I feel like you need to make that 20 percent count as much as you can, because it’s the only real thing musicians do nowadays.”

Given his determination to keep pushing boundaries, it’s not surprising that Petulla prefers to present forward-looking sets when he plays out. He says that he will still spin the classics that fans want to hear (and “classic” is a relative concept when you consider Getter has only been releasing music since 2011), but Petulla is notoriously dismissive of his older material.

“I mean, I’m proud of it, but I don’t really like it,” he admits. “So I just want to make everybody stoked on my new stuff rather than just chilling in the past.”

Here’s hoping Getter’s fans are stoked on hearing his take on headbangers-ball rock.

Getter plays BC Place as part of the Contact Winter Music Festival, taking place Monday and Tuesday (December 26 and 27).