10 Hard Rock Bands Who Made 3 Great Albums In A Row
2. Soundgarden
Nobody sounds quite like Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and nobody ever will. When they released Louder Than Love in 1989 and followed up with 1991s Badmotorfinger and 1994s Superunkown, they played their part in a grunge scene that seemed to master excellent music.
Louder than Love was their confident major label debut, full of finesse and gnarliness, it’s intense and rocks hard. Chris Cornell uses his voice to rip a hole through the record and the band conjure up so much raw energy by combining Black Sabbath with Led Zeppelin, but no matter how good it is, it was inevitably going to be swallowed up by Badmotorfinger. Their next record was legendary, massive and the sound of all four members at their absolute best. It was far bolder than its grunge contemporaries and audaciously daring, and it made their most commercially successful album, Superunkown, incredibly anticipated.
Superunkown is the kind of hard rock that lovers of AC/DC, Led Zepellin and Black Sabbath had been waiting for, for decades. It was fist pumping, heavy, epic and catchy, it gave it all and came out triumphant. Nevermind may be grunge’s most commercial success but Superunkown is the incredible radio-rock anthem it’s contemporaries could never make.