Exciting Soundgarden news isn’t quite as exciting as first thought
By Asher Kenton
Type of Article: Music News
A new song by recently reformed grunge legends entitled ‘Black Rain’ was debuted on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show this week. Zane of course got very excited, however, the song is not actually new, but rather an unused take from the Badmotorfinger sessions. This is unsurprising though, as Zane is the most positive man on this planet and seemingly loves every artist to have ever existed (or to have got radio 1 exposure).
The song, although it sounds pretty good, is nothing mind-blowing. The riff sounds very Alice in Chains which is a good thing, but ultimately the song doesn’t carry you anywhere that special, the vocals are typical Chris Cornell, which is great to hear, but are perhaps a little low in the mix, and are a little repetitive. It’s also nice to hear Kim Thayil solo-ing again but ultimately this is an out-take which has been cut, and isn’t worth getting too carry away with. Of course it’s nice to hear news from the Soundgarden camp, and perhaps new compilation release ‘Telephantism’ will actually be good but it’s not the news we’ve all been waiting for: a Soundgarden Europe tour, now that would be something to get excited about!
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