Somewhere in the annals of alternative music, it was decreed anything that makes a statement, that turns a head or furrows a brow, must certainly fall into the realm of quote-unquote punk. It's been a long-held understanding that subversive lyrics paired with anything nearing guttural vocals or dark imagery be classified as such. And forthwith placed in a world one step outside of our construct of convention, in its own time and place and out of sight for those uninterested in disrupting the status quo.