Biography

Although Nirvana and Pearl Jam may have been the most commercially successful bands of the 1990s Seattle movement, Soundgarden was every bit as important and influential. Part Black Sabbath/part Ramones, Soundgarden helped unite both punks and metalheads--one of the first alternative bands to do so. Largely due to vocalist Chris Cornell's signature wail and guitarist Kim Thayil's thunderous riffs, the band gained a huge fanbase by the mid '90s. However, the group called it a day in 1997, with drummer Matt Cameron joining Pearl Jam and Cornell going on to record solo and, with the instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine, as a member of Audioslave.

Top Tracks

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• All Your Lies

• Black Hole Sun

• Blow Up The Outside World

• Burden In My Hand

• Fell On Black Days

• Flower

• Fopp

• Full On Kevin's Mom

• Get On The Snake

• Hands All Over

• Head Injury

• Jesus Christ Pose

• Loud Love

• Mind Riot

• My Wave

• Outshined

• Pretty Noose

• Rusty Cage

• Spoonman

• Swallow My Pride

• Tears To Forget

• The Day I Tried To Live

• Ty Cobb

Discography

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• Down on the Upside

  A&M

  1996

• Superunknown

  A&M

  1994

• Badmotorfinger

  A&M

  1991

• Louder Than Love

  A&M

  1990

• Ultramega OK

  SST

  1988