Band: Soundgarden

Soundgarden played heavy, sludgy metal and were usually considered a grunge band due to their prominence on the Seattle scene during the early 90s. Soundgarden's sound was always more significantly derived from metal however, perfecting a Sabbath-like sludge style on "Badmotorfinger" before moving into a more commercial alternative rock direction on "Superunknown". By 1997 Soundgarden felt it had progressed as far creatively as possible and disbanded.