Soundgarden have just unveiled their first four tour dates of 2011: Beginning July 2 in Toronto, the tour will then hit Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles.
Guitarist Kim Thayil also told Spinner.com this week that the reunited Soundgarden are at work in Seattle on their first studio album in 15 years. This follows the release last month of their 1996 concert recording, Live on I-5.
“[The new album] is pretty developed in the writing process,” reports Thayil. “We’ve been at it since December, January. We’re still writing, but we have a number of songs that are complete, a number of songs that are close to being completed and a number of songs that look like they just woke up … We probably, after 13, 14 years, have new things to bring to the table. Our interests have gone off in slightly different directions, but at our core we’re still moved by the things that informed Soundgarden’s body of work, which is the sort of dark beauty, heaviness and an aggressiveness without being viscerally old and awkward. There’s gonna be a lot that’s familiar and similar. There’s gonna be stuff that’s definitely different; the stuff that’s different however will be within the context of those elements that are described earlier.”
When asked to estimate a release date for the new album, Thayil said, “We are not going to pressure ourselves and we’re not likely to let other people pressure us. I believe that can really stress out and put a lot of pressure on a band. It’s very likely that if a deadline is set for us, [there’s a] good chance we'll let it pass. We’re not gonna do anything to make what we’re doing un-fun.”
Soundgarden 2011 Tour Dates:
July 2 - Toronto, ON - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
July 13 - Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
July 18 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 22 - Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
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