Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long (Later...with Jools Holland 6-11-2012)

This video is for anyone who missed or who were just left wanting more of Soundgarden's amazing live performance on Later...with Jools Holland, which was broadcast on 6th Nov 2012.

Soundgarden perform Been Away Too Long, which is the first single from their long awaited 6th studio album King Animal. Its been 16 years since the big-riffed Seattle band last released a studio album and if this is the benchmark, then it can only signal a superb comeback.

Soundgarden were formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's full-time drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990.

Soundgarden were one of the seminal bands during the creation of grunge, a style of alternative rock that developed in Seattle, and was one of a number of grunge bands signed to the record label Sub Pop. Soundgarden was the first grunge band to sign to a major label (A&M Records, in 1988), though the band did not achieve commercial success until they popularized the genre in the early 1990s with Seattle contemporaries Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam.

Soundgarden achieved its biggest success with the 1994 album Superunknown, which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and yielded the Grammy Award-winning singles Black Hole Sun and Spoonman. In 1997, the band broke up due to internal strife over its creative direction. After several years working on projects and other bands, Soundgarden reunited in 2010.

As of 2012, Soundgarden had sold over 10.5 million records in the United States, and an estimated 22.5 million worldwide.

To find out more about Soundgarden and a list of tour dates check out the following links:

http://www.soundgardenworld.com/
http://en-gb.facebook.com/Soundgarden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundgarden

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