England's Skeletal Family, considered part of the mid-'80s "positive punk" movement, wasn't a particularly grungy band. But they have moments in many tracks when they're almost hard to tell apart from the later American band Babes in Toyland, particularly due to vocalist Anne-Marie Hurst's confident yelps and willingness to sound a little crazy and spooky at every turn. "Ritual," from their debut album Burning Oil in 1984, is a great example of this. Also, the guitar is a little more forward and aggressive in this song compared to the majority of their songs. With this second song on their first album, they certainly introduced themselves to the world as a grunge goth band.
Nirvana didn't have a lot of tracks that sounded gothy, but there were a few. "Big Long Now," from 1992's Incesticide , was one of their darkest sounding tracks. The lyrics were pretty obscure, but the sound is a combination of mopey and angry. Endless climb, I am blind Why can't I leave? Color blind
This was a fantastic three-piece gloom punk band from Washington, active in the mid-2010s, now no more. Song after song is just perfect grunge goth, with genius lyrics. Wish they were still doing it. This track is from their 2016 EP, Drag the Well , which came between their first and final EPs. They had no full-length albums and released 16 tracks altogether, that I know of. All are on Bandcamp, and probably most on YouTube as well. Embrace this crushing gloom Repeating cycle, test how deep this hole can get
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