Soundgarden reunites after 12-year hiatus

[I am not Spock]

Good news!

Inevitably, bands always reform. It might take a long time, but it always happens, if only for a one-off reunion. (Look at how long Waters and Gilmour hated each other until they played at Live 8 in 2005)

Soundgarden and AIC are more hard rock/metal than grunge, I agree. They got lumped in with the grunge scene. Soundgarden said once that they were 'too punk for the metalheads, too metal for the punks', so they got pigeonholed as grunge.

I hope they tour and do a new record, as Alice in Chains have done. The new AIC is very impressive to me. I was sceptical but damn, what a good album. You can almost still hear Layne's spirit there.

 

[I am not Spock]

Duvall is very good I think, a very good fit indeed, and I think AIC handled the whole thing with a lot of dignity and a very respectful approach. I just wish they would unleash Duvall as a proper frontman instead of making him share the spotlight with Jerry Cantrell so much.

Yeah, he's a very fine vocalist. A good choice for AIC. He does have to share the limelight with Cantrell singing on a lot of the new disc, true.

 

[Balrog]

Soundgarden was on a 12 year hiatus?

 

[Timby]

Soundgarden was on a 12 year hiatus?

Broke up in '97, Cornell did Euphoria Morning and then Rage Against the Soundgarden, followed by one good and one horrific solo effort, so ... yep.