10 Most Underrated Grunge Albums

For those of you who weren't there, the fallout of grunge did end up getting downright ugly by the end. After Kurt Cobain was found dead in his house in April of 1994, the thought of something labelled as grunge always came with a certain conviction that you needed to have in the music. Though a lot of post-grunge gets labelled as a corporate cash in of Seattle's legacy, Days of the New remains one of the few shining lights in the genre.

Being still in his teens when he wrote this record, vocalist Travis Meeks is already every bit the grunge superstar that you could have hoped for, fitting somewhere between the vocals of Chris Cornell and the yarl of Eddie Vedder. Though that combination sounds like the inner ramblings of a record exec, Meeks is one of the few who manages to make it work, with his baritone register giving way to some savage vocal explosions across some of the beefier cuts on here.

It's also unique that this album primarily favors the acoustic guitar for most of its runtime, giving each song a mystical sort of atmosphere as they play out. For as much as people lament about the graverobbing going on in the world of post grunge, Days of the New's first outing remains one of the few exceptions to the rule.