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THE REVIEW
It's 1989, after two EPs and the first true album "Ultramega Ok," "Louder Than Love" is released. These are still the early Soundgarden, the angry ones, even angrier than "Badmotorfinger." The lineup features singer Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Hiro Yammamoto, and drummer Matt Cameron.
It's no secret the great influence that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have had on this band, and if you are a fan of the later, softer Soundgarden, this album might make you raise an eyebrow. Cornell's high notes are amazing, perhaps the young frontman exaggerates, but his qualities are indisputable. Tahyil's guitar has literally gone crazy, managing to create impenetrable walls of riffs. The album ranges from almost metal blasts like Gun, Get On The Snake, Full on Kevin's Mum, and the mocking Big Dumb to others with a more complex structure like the opener Ugly Truth, Hands All Over, and Loud Love. But even if the rhythm changes, the mood is always the same, dark, gloomy, suspended in a twilight atmosphere.
Even though we don't yet have the mature and more original band of subsequent masterpieces like "Badmotorfinger" and "Superunknown," "Louder Than Love" still remains a very good album, definitely a must-have.
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Released in 1989, Louder Than Love captures Soundgarden in their raw, angrier early phase. The album showcases Chris Cornell's notable vocals and Kim Thayil's intense guitar work, blending metal and grunge influences. Despite lacking the maturity of later masterpieces, it remains a strong and essential release.
Soundgarden
American rock band formed in Seattle in 1984, central to the 1990s grunge scene; best-known for albums such as Superunknown and Badmotorfinger and for Chris Cornell's distinctive voice.31 Reviews
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By gate
This album is simply a bombshell, as it should have been.
Imagine the satisfaction of seeing friends stare at each other’s stunned eyes while you pump 'Get on the Snake' into their sickly eardrums?
By claudio carpentieri
'Louder Than Love' is a marble and edgy album enough, where any further artificial polishing would have risked losing the polish that still distinguishes it today.
With 'Louder Than Love' the baptism by fire occurs with 'Ugly Truth,' introduced by Cameron’s drumsticks that open to a fresh rhythmic compactness.
