King Animal

One of my favorite bands has always been Soundgarden. I have a hard time deciding on a favorite album from them. It is too hard to consistently get Badmotorfinger, Superunknown or Down on the Upside to take the lead in my eyes because they are all amazing. I was kind of glad that Soundgarden split when they did, in a “go out on top” kind of way, after I saw how monotonous the later works of groups like Pearl Jam have become. The post rebuilding Alice in Chains album is pretty good but feels more like another Jerry Cantrell solo album rather than an Alice in Chains album. And most other bands just seem to lose it as time progresses. That brings me to what I have heard from King Animal the new post-reunion work from Soundgarden.

I had extreme doubts after much of the solo work by Chris Cornell, but the snippets I have heard have got my interest piqued and my hopes up. there is this promotional video:

Then there’s the first single:

And here another video explaining a song:

So far I haven’t heard any of the old style epic stuff they used to make, but I have heard something weird, which I love, and three which could have been energetic tunes from Superunknown or Down on the Upside. Fingers Crossed.

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