The new video from reanimated Seattle legends Soundgarden has arrived, and it’s a weird one. As long as you enjoy astronauts looking confused as the universe explodes around them, with odd pictures of the band members floating through space.
The single comes off King Animal, the first offering of all-new material in 16 years from Soundgarden. The band is no longer in a landscape of sound they were central to creating, but rather than cower in nostalgia or pander to the bandwagons, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron have returned with a progressively demanding, wide-reaching power play of reestablishment. The framework is unfiltered and undeniably Soundgarden – moody, thick with riffs and vortexes of rhythm – but with the kind of evolution mandated by the progressive state of Rock today.
