Mud Under Nails

90s grunge with heavy half-time drums and sludgy downpicked guitars; verse rides tense low-end grind, pre-chorus opens into a ragged climb, chorus pulls back to quiet guitars and raw vocal strain, bridge drops the bass hard then surges back with full-band impact. Close-mic male vocals, doubled on the biggest lines, cracked ad-libs in the margins, tape hiss swells and feedback squeals between sections. Gritty, dark, and punchy in the mix., grunge