10 Perfect Post Grunge Albums In Rock Music History

Part of the appeal behind grunge in the early days was hearing the sounds of guitars blasting you out of your seat from the moment you heard them. Long before Nirvana was even a thing, you had people like the Melvins priding themselves on how sludgy they could make their guitars, picking up on the style that Black Sabbath started back in the day. If you have some real darkness in your soul though, you don't need any distortion to hit a nerve.

Coming out right at the tail end of the original grunge movement, Days of the New stepped up to the plate with some of the moodiest songs of the decade, and mostly on acoustic instruments no less. While we had people like Alice in Chains dabbling in some acoustic affair every now and again, this was the kind of rock that had the rootsier side engrained in their bones on this debut, with Travis Meeks sounding more and more tortured as the record plays out.

This is by no means a folk record though. Going through the track listing, you can hear the band taking the basic skeleton of rock and roll and trying to take it to a different place, like on the back end of something like Whimsical, where it almost sounds like they are letting the music carry them to some other place. Out of all the later grunge rock outfits, this is the one record that could almost pass for meditation music with how subtle it is.