One acoustic guitar, alone and close, picking through a repeating figure.

A second guitar folds in underneath, harmonizing the same figure.

Long electric swells rise behind the picking, sustained tone against all that attack.

Cymbals shimmer in at the far edge — the kit's first touch.

The electric guitars step forward and take the melody; a band is gathering around the theme.

It pulls back — guitars sustaining and fading, cymbals left ringing in the space.

A voice arrives, clean and mid-register, sitting right on top of the pocket.

The voice works close and level while the band stays low behind it, rolling without pushing.

The floor firms up now — heavier guitars, driving drums — and the voice lifts to ride it.

The voice pushes into its belting register, over a wall of cymbals and riff.

One more line threads high across the grinding wall.

Still at full height, and leaning in harder with every pass.

The drums break into a sprint, the riffs snapping behind them.

Double-kick hammers low while a harmonized lead sings above it.

The voice cuts back in over the chug.

The low end digs in, and the floor of the groove firms up.

For the close, the voice climbs once more, pressed against everything the band puts behind it.

And there it lets go, all at once.