The period of time where your place is tidy enough to make a good impression on house guests.
Guests will be sailing through the door any moment so we need to bring the house up to high tide. It’ll ebb back down to its natural state of chaos in low tide as soon as they’re gone, which is fine, but I can’t even swing a cat in here right now.
The late Chuck Schuldiner (former frontman of one of the death metal pioneers Death) was known for usually using high-pitched growling in some of Death's music (this can be heard on Death's final album The Sound of Perseverance, especially on their cover of Judas Priest's Painkiller).