Soundgarden

In the cauldron of grunge, they were perhaps the most lyrical and intense band. Immense and monstrous, with Thayil being a guitar monster, of extraordinary versatility and imagination, and a Cornell for whom words are not enough. A band often trapped in "grunge," but with a thousand facets, from the dark and obsessive sounds of doom to atmospheric hard rock, from raw hardcore to the vitriol of Thayil's psychedelic digressions, from stoner power to the Orient.