King Animal
Occupation
- Chris Cornell - vocals, rhythm guitar
- Ben Shepherd - bass, backing vocals
- Kim Thayil - Lead Guitar
- Matt Cameron - drums, backing vocals
Animal King is the sixth studio album by the grunge band Soundgarden. It was released in November 2012 in Seven Four Entertainment / Republic Records. It is the first regular studio album since Down on the Upside 1996.
Formation and style
In 2010, Soundgarden reunited and first published the compilation Telephantasm and the live album Live on I- fifth King Animal is their first studio album after the reunion. It was, as her last Output Down on the Upside, by Adam Kasper produced and recorded at the last members of the band in time from February 2011 to August 2012.
Reception
The Music Express wrote: " Soundgarden sound with their familiar, influenced by heavy metal alternative rock, as if they had never been away, and sometimes even as they still had big goals. " Page awarded 3.5 out of 5 stars.
According to Josef Gasteiger from the Internet magazine Laut.de " manages the quartet released its Trade Marks without restraint as a band that her past is aware, but can not depress it." He particularly stressed, Animal King was " a record that grows with every listen. [ ... ] After a few runs the sprawling arrangements add together the melodies going on in the ear and one wonders why the hell is this cool bass line or that Bridge has noticed for the first time only at the fifth time. " For the album he missed 4 out of 5 possible points.
For time online stated Jan arrested Friday that King Animal " at the end something break down [ like ], as the late forties would have had to torture a little, in order to achieve full album strength." However, he underlined that " it probably never before had a reunion, so little by financial difficulties and withdrawal symptoms sounded like forever past successes, with 21 million records " and certified the album sounded " refreshing after a fresh start without self-correction, without the pressure of modernization and false profile neuroses. "
The mission culture time on 3sat welcomed the return of grunge veterans, though not uncritical: Been Away For Too Long " Unfortunately, the current single is " King Animal " can be found quite a " musically and lyrically abundant banal fall But on the album. " few riffs that build on the level of old songs. "