Steel Year

Slow heavy metal with a sludgy 6/8 pulse, down-tuned riffing, tom-heavy verse grooves, and a crushing halftime chorus; verses ride tense palm-muted chugs, pre-chorus opens into ringing chords and rising bends, chorus hits with stacked gang shouts and sustained guitar wails, bridge drops to a lone bass pulse and picked clean guitar before the final riff returns. Rough male vocals with doubles on key lines, snarled ad-libs, and a few shouted responses; scrape swells, feedback blooms, and a drum fill into each drop; thick, dark, and wide in the mix., slow, metal