Louder Than Love
Occupation
- Chris Cornell - Vocals
- Hiro Yamamoto - Bass
- Kim Thayil - Guitar
- Matt Cameron - drums
Louder Than Love is the second studio album by the American band Soundgarden. It was released by A & M Records in September 1989.
Style
At times of Louder Than Love, as it did not exist the grunge concept, Soundgarden were often compared to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, so a mixture of heavy metal and hard rock, terms like heavy rock or street metal were with the grunge brought precursors in conjunction. About himself told the band that it was " enough for anyone into speed metal, but we're heavy Neo -metal rock ... maybe. " Further influences were British bands like Killing Joke or Bauhaus. The band was already using unorthodox clock schemes on the album. So Get on the Snake was played in a 9/4-Takt, I Awake includes 4/4-, 6/4-, 9/8-, 11/8- and 14/8-Takte on.
Genesis
After the debut of Ultra Mega OK had been published on the smaller label SST Records, the major label had some interested repelled. A & M Records, however, found the idea good to bring out the debut in this way and took the band then under contract. The album was from December 1988 - recorded in January 1989 in Seattle.
Reception
Wrote Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, the plate was one of the most innovative hard rock records since Master of Puppets: "Even Soundgarden 's hardest, loudest workouts have a subtle, sensual underpinning, to unlikely mix did makes Louder Than Love one of the most innovative hard rock records to come down the pike since skateboarding Metallica 's Master of Puppets ( Elektra ) in 1986. "Steve Huey of Allmusic awarded three stars out of five. He called the album a step in the direction of the metal mainstream. "It's worthwhile to sift through Louder Than Love, but do not expect consistency. "