"When we were playing like 100 capacity rooms, as soon as it kicked in, people were in danger, like people could die." How Knocked Loose wrote Counting Worms as a terrifying set interlude and scored a viral hit

Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose performs at Avondale Brewing on June 15, 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Counting Worms began life as a simple interlude during Knocked Loose’s early, violent sets.

This 71-second song is not about a basic technique for measuring soil health, but rather slang for being quite deceased. It’s not a happy song by any stretch of the imagination, but when it was released in 2016 on their debut album Laugh Tracks, it became something of a viral hit.