This Day In Music History: October 8th, 1991 – Soundgarden explodes with the metallic ‘Badmotorfinger’

By late 1991, Soundgarden had become a hotly-tipped name in alternative and metal circles. The band, who were always lumped in with their grunge contemporaries, hadn’t quite broken through yet – though their sophomore full-length (1989’s Louder Than Love) saw the band sign with a major label, the first grunge band in the scene to…

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Soundgarden’s classic 1994 grunge masterpiece, ‘Superunknown’, has been certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA

Along with Nirvana’s Nevermind, Pearl Jam’s Ten + VS., and Alice In Chains’ Dirt (just to name a handful), Soundgarden’s Superunknown is one of the most commercially successful albums of the grunge era. Grunge was a pretty big cash cow in the early ’90s, with Nirvana’s success prompting a wave of labels to sign bands…

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Sevendust returns with a cover of Soundgarden’s classic “The Day I Tried To Live” – listen

Sevendust have unveiled a new lyric video for their cover of the Soundgarden classic “The Day I Tried To Live”, released in 1994 off the band’s defining album, Superunknown. A song that’s fitting for the times we’re living in right now, it’s also an interesting coincidence considering Sevendust themselves were formed in 1994 – with…

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