Sentence:  On the Warlocks' early records, for all that the music was grim and dark and <WSD>guttery</WSD>, there was a lightness and a sense of fun in the totally over-the-top playing, each repetitive, maddening, Chinese-water-torture ching-ching-ching drawn out so far past the point of absurdity you could imagine strobe lights flashing off the band's shit-eating grins. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Dark and brooding.