Drenge – Eoin and Rory Loveless – are hardly the types to worry about selling out gigs, with a heads-down, no-nonsense take on stagecraft they would probably be recreating in a cellar had they never escaped their suburban tedium.

Yet the Green Door Store was utterly packed, with shifting space at a premium and the entry boarded by silhouettes witnessing a brutal form of angst-rock which has caused talk of a grunge revival.

In truth, the brothers’ guitar and drums knockabout is only the most currently noticed tip of an underground scene in which heavier bands reside, their songs laying a relentless emphasis on blood, guts and despair via titles such as I Want to Break You In Half and new single Bloodsports.

If that makes these whippet-thin malcontents sound wearingly teenage, their approach – vicious guitars, strangled gutterals, a tendency to give the impression of men playing their last performance before a firing range – proved tersely thrilling, never sounding like a note was wasted, even when they blasted and bludgeoned their way through extended rock-outs.

Their music makes clear the convincing case for less posturing and more menace.