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ByBrian Boone

Soundgarden was one of the biggest bands in the world in the early 1990s.

After earning their keep and building a profile on the burgeoning Seattle scene in the 1980s, the group was in the right place at the right time as the Pacific Northwest's grunge movement became the biggest thing in music and rewrote the history of rock.

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Alongside Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains, Soundgarden ruled MTV and the alternative rock airwaves, although it was a bit more of a traditional metal band than their arena rock and punk-leaning peers. Soundgarden also had what nobody else had: the shredding and relentlessly thundering guitar work of Kim Thayil and the soaring, upper-register vocals of lead singer Chris Cornell.

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The band often sang of sadness, misery, and despondence, topics the group's members knew all too well from their tumultuous personal lives.

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