Tara, Edge Music Dept
3/27/2012
A 22-second snippet of the first new Soundgarden song in almost 16 years has appeared online, according to Blabbermouth. Called "Live To Rise," the track will appear on the soundtrack of The Avengers, the superhero team-up movie coming out on May 4th. The soundtrack itself arrives on May 1st. The song is also presumably from the sessions from Soundgarden's first album of all-new material since 1996's Down On The Upside, which the band began recording last March.
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell told Australia's Triple M radio station that the new material "sounds like Soundgarden," adding, "But we've always kind of progressed from album to album. So it's definitely not a throwback. It's not us getting back to our roots -- it's not that -- it's just kind of a natural progression."
Cornell told us not long ago that Soundgarden's songwriting style has always made the band unique and hard to imitate: "It's made us a very eclectic band musically, and a band that's really hard to distill. We were never an easy band to mimic. There's a lot of bands influenced by us, but I don't think you could sit down and point to three or four bands over the history of the last 20 years that really just tried to cop what we did and then came out. 'Cause it wasn't possible."
Soundgarden officially reunited in early 2010 after disbanding in 1997. Since then, the group has played one full-length North American tour, a batch of festival and club gigs, and some overseas shows.
The group also released a career retrospective called Telephantasm as well as a concert album titled Live On I5, which was recorded on its last tour before breaking up.
A release date and title for the new Soundgarden album have yet to be announced.
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