This new trailer for Soundgarden's upcoming album King Animal proves they're just as weird as ever. That's one of the things I always loved about them. In even their most accessible music there is a dark weirdness weaving it's way through the layers of sound. Most of which I attribute to Guitarist Kim Thayill. He is never one to play it straight. Always making his guitar sound like it's a broadcast coming from another world or a person screaming trapped in a crawl space.
Last week I was lucky enough to get a good listen to a new song called "Been Way To Long". It had that chugging groove to it similar to stuff on Badmotorfinger like "Rusty Cage" or "Drawing Flies". But it had a big chorus with a touch of Queen-like voice layering. Plus a spooky vault door slamming in a long hallway sound and what I thought was a shovel digging in dirt. Yeah, keeping it weird.
Here's the Track List for King Animal:
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”
