Following on from the release of a video teaser for their new album, grunge veterans Soundgarden, one of the latest groups to reform after a split, have announced more details for their new album King Animal, the band’s first collection of new material in 15 years.
After headlining London’s Hard Rock Calling Festival earlier this year, the band will be releasing a brand new single ‘Been Away Too Long’ – the album’s lead track – on September 27.
The four members, who reunited fifteen years after their split in 1997, have since amended their considerable differences, “it was just like we’d been on a short break,” lead singer Chris Cornell enthused to NME, “after all this time, we can still do what we do so effortlessly.”
While slagging off on pop culture earlier in the year Cornell also payed respect to grunge pioneers Nirvana, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains & Pearl Jam, also surprisingly mentioning Adele stating “the one bright spot was Adele having the biggest-selling record of last year. They’re actually songs and she can really sing.”
In the same interview, Cornell spoke about the long overdue Soundgarden album. Calling the new material, “ground-breaking” and commenting that it “is every bit as vital as anything we’ve ever done… it’s not in any way nostalgic, it’s not a throwback.”
The new video trailer for King Animal portrays the band underneath snow on top a mountain, as the clip glides on you see the band members appear face by face, ending with a still that has been announced as the album’s front cover.
King Animal is set for release on November 13 and you can view the full tracklisting below:
- Been Away Too Long
- Non-State Actor
- By Crooked Steps
- A Thousand Days Before
- Blood On The Valley Floor
- Bones of Birds
- Taree
- Attrition
- Black Saturday
- Halfway There
- Worse Dreams
- Eyelid’s Mouth
- Rowing
