Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Alternative Metal Active: 80's, 90's Formed: 1984 in Seattle, WA
Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, The Ohio Players, The Ramones, Gene Simmons, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Spinal Tap, Jimi Hendrix, The Stooges, Metallica, Meat Puppets, Bad Brains, The Beatles, Black Flag, Alice Cooper, Funkadelic, Kiss Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Seven Mary Three, My Sister's Machine, Bush, Nickelback, Candlebox, Kyuss, Jeff Buckley, Clutch, Jerry Cantrell, Page & Plant, Everclear, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones Candlebox, L7, Eleven, Stone Temple Pilots, Boneclub, Alice in Chains, Black Stone Cherry, Peach, Sunburn, Grammatrain, Seven Mary Three, Wallop, Vision of Disorder, U.P.O., Nickelback, Sugartooth, Wolfgang, Godsmack, Queens of the Stone Age |  |
Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock. Their fellow Seattle rockers Green River may have spearheaded the grunge sound, but they relied on noise rock in the vein of the Stooges. Similarly, Jane's Addiction were too fascinated with prog rock and performance art to appeal to a wide array of metal fans. Soundgarden, however, developed directly out of the grandiose blues-rock of Led Zeppelin and the sludgy, slow riffs of Black Sabbath. Which isn't to say they were a straight-ahead metal band. Soundgarden borrowed the D.I.Y. aesthetics of punk, melding their guitar-driven sound with an intelligence and ironic sense of humor that was indebted to the American underground of the mid-'80s.
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Release: March 25, 2008
Label: Universal Japan
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Release: November 4, 1997
Label: A&M
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