Soundgarden dropped a new single — "Storm" — Sunday night, Oct. 26, and nobody knew it was coming. Riding high off an appearance with Pearl Jam over the weekend to reprise Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike," Chris Cornell and the boys surprised fans with a throwback cut that will sacrifice radio play for its old-school, Badmotorfinger feel.
Check out the jam:
The tune came along with eery artwork, posted on the band's Facebook page.
Cornell talked to Rolling Stone about new music in May, and discussed the history of grunge rock.
"We're clearly pioneers of that genre," he said. "So imagining that we weren't part of it, if we were from somewhere else, when that story is told we would not have been part of it. That comparison could be Jane's Addiction or Smashing Pumpkins, who won't necessarily get mentioned when some new rock fan is researching these dramatic pivotal moments. So for that reason I feel whatever we had to put up with over the years, all the Seattle questions, it's worth it."
When can we expect more new cuts, homes?
"Literally, in the last couple days, I started coming up with ideas for songs for a new album. I can't describe the direction it's taking, though. There's no album we've ever made where I would have been able to describe a direction it was taking while making it. Like Superunknown, I understood what it was near the end. King Animal [Soundgarden's most recent album] was that way, too. I really didn't understand the personality of the record until it was almost finished. Then I thought, 'Oh, it's this. Awesome.'"
