Superunknown
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Superunknown
Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records. It is the band's second album with bassist Ben Shepherd, and features new producer Michael Beinhorn. Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Badmotorfinger (1991). Superunknown captured the heaviness of the band's earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Superunknown remains the very definition of no-qualifiers-required rock—a tombstone for a once-dominant aesthetic, perhaps, but also a solid, immovable mass that endures no matter how dramatically its surroundings have changed.
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All Music
Soundgarden's finest hour, Superunknown is a sprawling, 70-minute magnum opus that pushes beyond any previous boundaries.
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Sputnik Music
Soundgarden’s masterpiece “Superunknown” is truly a powerful journey, and one of the most emotionally draining albums of all-time.
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Classic Rock Review
Although it was the group’s fourth overall release, Superunknown was the real breakthrough album for Soundgarden in 1994.
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COS
Superunknown proves that a grunge record can endure without the romance of a dead singer.
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Rolling Stone
On the whole, though, Superunknown not only hits more often than it misses, but it demonstrates far greater range than many bands manage in an entire career.
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Classic Rock
Soundgarden may have been a little slower to hit the mainstream than Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but Superunknown catapulted them into the big time
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Wisconsin Public Radio
Soundgarden's 'Superunknown' Rerelease Expands '90s Masterpiece
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Renowned for Sound
The album has helped define a genre for 20 years, and nothing seems to be changing that anytime soon.
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Eric Mack Attacks
I’m a big fan of this album — I ranked it #24 on my favorite albums list.
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Mostly Retro
Superunknown remains as great an album as ever, with its one-of-a-kind combination of heavy metal, grunge rock and even psychedelia sounding just as fresh and unique now as it did 20 years ago.
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The Line of Best Fit
The band had finally found a cohesive sound on their previous outing, 1991’s Badmotorfinger, and were rewarded for strong (pop) songwriting when Superunknown came out three years later.
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Ultimate Guitar
This album gets you hooked from the opening riff in Let Me Drown all the way to Chris finishes singing "Just like suicide."
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Pure Grain Audio
when a record still sounds fresh and has remained relevant for a quarter century — now, that’s a true classic. And that defines Superunknown perfectly.
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The Ace Black Blog
Superunknown contains some of the best artifacts from the dying days of the short-lived Grunge epoch, but it vastly overstays its welcome and with a dreadfully poor back end hangs around to prove why the movement burned itself out .
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