Reunited grunge legends
SOUNDGARDEN will release their first collection of all-new material in 16 years, and first since the group reunited in 2010,
"King Animal", on November 13 via
Tom Whalley's new record label, a partnership between his
Seven Four Entertainment and
Republic Records.
Deluxe versions of
"King Animal" include a box set, a deluxe CD,
iTunes deluxe and 180-gram double vinyl. Many of the deluxe editions include album track demos recorded in singer
Chris Cornell's home studio.
For details of the
"King Animal" deluxe versions, visit
SoundgardenWorld.com.
"King Animal" track listing:
01.
Been Away Too Long02.
Non-State Actor03.
By Crooked Steps04.
A Thousand Days Before05.
Blood On The Valley Floor06.
Bones Of Birds07.
Taree08.
Attrition09.
Black Saturday10.
Halfway There11.
Worse Dreams12.
Eyelid's Mouth13.
Rowing Drummer
Matt Cameron told
The Pulse Of Radio two things that he thinks made
SOUNDGARDEN special then and now: "In our scene up here in the Northwest in the '80s and '90s, we were sometimes considered to be the
RUSH of Seattle, just because we could sort of play our instruments maybe better than most bands. [
laughs] We never really tried to flaunt any musical chops, but we always had pretty diverse tastes. We had a lot of really cool influences amongst ourselves that we tried to infuse in the music."
The first single from the disc is called
"Been Away Too Long".
Cornell told
OnstageWeb that the track is literally about the band's reunion, explaining, "It means that a group, in this case personified by
SOUNDGARDEN, has been away and the length of that away time has suddenly become maybe overextended. So been away too long, like thank God we're back now. It seems like it might have been a little bit too long for us to be gone."
The vocalist added that he was surprised that
SOUNDGARDEN seems poised to once again fill a void for "real" rock music, saying, "I always expected that after we broke up or even maybe before we broke up that there should be or would be some very vital scene, numerous interesting rock bands that are kind of taking the history of rock music and making it their own."




