HenneMusic are reporting that "Been Away Too Long", the first track from the upcoming Soundgarden album "King Animal", is now online. The album is scheduled to be released on November 13th. It is the first record that the band have released since they reformed in 2010. The band’s last full length album, "Down On The Upside", was released in 1996.
The full tracklisting for King Animal is as follows:
01. Been Away Too Long 02. Non-State Actor 03. By Crooked Steps 04. A Thousand Days Before 05. Blood On The Valley Floor 06. Bones of Birds 07. Taree 08. Attrition 09. Black Saturday 10. Halfway There 11. Worse Dreams 12. Eyelid's Mouth 13. Rowing
Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell has described the album as a progression from where the band left off in 1996:
"It sounds like Soundgarden, but I wouldn’t say it’s similar. I think there are parts of it that are gonna remind anybody of us, but we’ve always kind of progressed from album to album. So it’s definitely not a throwback. It’s not us getting back to our roots... it’s just kind of a natural progression."
While the vast majority of people seem to be happy about the return of Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan apparently isn’t so keen, having claimed at a press conference that the band were back for "one more round at the till".
"There are those bands that are essentially coming back only to make money - playing their old albums, and maybe somewhere in the back of their minds they're thinking there might be a future."
"When Soundgarden came back and they just played their old songs, great. I was a fan of Soundgarden, but call it for what it is. They’re just out there to have one more round at the till."
I like the bass in the interlude. The song as a whole reminds me of "No Attention" or "Overfloater". Definitely not a letdown, but I'm also not blown away. A good opener, I think.
I don't know Soundgarden very well, and I dont know any Soundgarden songs really, apart from Black Hole Sun of course, but this doesn't sound very good to me
I think it sounds like a lead single and I expect the rest of the album to have some heavier numbers with maybe a couple more pop psychedelic tunes. Personally my favorite albums are ultramega ok, louder than love, and badmotorfinger but their later stuff is still interesting and vital and this song fits right in the catalog via down on the upside its a promising start compared to everything else out there so I'll count myself as optimistic but to expect these guys to make another badmotorfinger 20 years later means your gonna be disappointed.
I was hoping soundgarden would go back to their roots and come out with a dark, heavy album and songs with different tunings. Thats what their known for. Guess there not 20 years old anymore. This song has grown on me and still looking forward to their new album. I hope their album doesn't sound like a ramped version of backspacer because that was a terrible album.
Let me get this straight. Soundgarden coming back is "wanting to do one more round at the till to grab money" by having their entire line up reuniting. And their music is still awesome.
You having an unsuccessful solo career and that shitty band after Smashing Pumpkins, you decide to have a "reunion" with only one member of the band. And you called it "Smashing Pumpkins" instead of Billy Corgan. The entire band was NOT present during this reunion.
Tell me all about how you did this because you wanted a "smashing pumpkins reunion" and not to fool your fans into purchasing concert tickets/new albums thinking they get the Smashing Pumpkins. You are the best example of someone "taking another round at the till" for money.
I agree RATMfan420, and lets see who"s having another round at the till when soundgarden's whole album comes out, and it turns out to be great, Corgan is just pissed cause he must have lost it as a musician, oshitenia or whatever its called sucks, its just drab slow crapiola, the only rock about that album is the one i used to destroy it.
At first it reminded me a lot of Superunknown, I like it a lot. I doubt the rest of the album is going to sound like this, this is only the opening track on the album after all.
