April 1, 2012

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Soundgarden's Live to Rise, the legendary Seattle band's first new song in 15 years, will be the end credit track on The Avengers, Joss Whedon's highly anticipated summer movie based on the Marvel Comics superheroes.

The song will appear on Avengers Assemble, a compilation of tunes inspired by the film. It's out May 1, along with The Avengers soundtrack containing Alan Silvestri's score.

Best known for such '90s rock hits as Black Hole Sun, My Wave, Spoonman and Blow Up the Outside World, Soundgarden has sold 21 million records worldwide. Since reuniting in 2010, the Grammy-winning group has released its first retrospective, Telephantasm, and first live album, Live on the I-5. A new studio album is due by year's end.

Dang it...the snippet cut off before I could hear Chris Cornell scream his lungs out. Otherwise, I like what I'm hearing. Hopefully they will be churning out a new album.

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missfee said:

Dang it...the snippet cut off before I could hear Chris Cornell scream his lungs out. Otherwise, I like what I'm hearing. Hopefully they will be churning out a new album.

You can download this for free from I-tunes now.

Soundgarden's New 'Avengers' Single Offered as Free Download

April 17,2012

Soundgarden's first new song in 15 years, "Live to Rise," will be available as a free download beginning April 17 on iTunes as part of the promotion of Disney's film Marvel's The Avengers.

The iTunes promotion, which runs through April 24, includes an exclusive clip -- "The Face Off" -- from the movie, which opens May 4.

"Live to Rise" is the first single from the Marvel Music/Hollywood Records album Avengers Assemble, which will be released May 1. Tracks from Shinedown, Rise Against, Bush and Five Finger Death Punch are among the 14 cuts on the album.

"The hard part of writing a song for a film is it has to act as a Soundgarden song, first and foremost, then obviously, it has to coexist with the film," Soundgarden singer-songwriter Chris Cornell tells Billboard.

Soundgarden was approached in early March to contribute a song to the film. They were working on their reunion album, a fall release of which is anticipated, and after going through their tracks nothing seemed appropriate. Cornell and guitarist Kim Thayil started from scratch and came up with "Live to Rise."

It is the first Soundgarden track to be written for a film. But Cornell has contributed tracks to such movies as "Mission Impossible II," James Bond film "Casino Royale" and last year's "Machine Gun Preacher."

"The biggest difference," Cornell said in drawing the distinction between his solo work for film and the new Soundgarden track, "is that, on my own, I'm only responsible for the identity of me. In the context of Soundgarden, it's a band that has a long and prominent place in rock music and all four of us have our own ideas of what the musical identity of Soundgarden is. That has to be served first. It has to function naturally as a Soundgarden song before you even consider anything else."

http://www.billboard.biz/...8352.story