Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Jun 5, 2014It's obvious that Superunknown was consciously styled as a masterwork, and it fulfills every ambition.
-
Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Five CDs is probably too much intensity for anyone to take, but Superunknown itself is a pitch-black delight. [Summer 2014, p.95]
-
Jun 5, 2014There’s little that’s playful inside Superunknown. It sounds more like Black Sabbath running for their lives, about to crack under the pressure, but then, at the last minute, escaping--and thriving.
-
Jun 5, 2014Amid a musical landscape now splintered into infinite subgenres, 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.
-
Jul 1, 2014It is hard to say that the “rehearsal” tracks will be accessible to many more than hardcore Soundgarden fans or musicians who can relate to the start-stop and voiceover style of pushing through a song and trying to get it right, but then again, it’s hard to imagine many outside-of-hardcore fans of the band forking over the $90-plus it costs to buy this collection. Those that have the money and the interest should definitely do so, however.
-
Q MagazineJun 19, 2014The songs sounds just as fierce 20 years on. [Jul 2014, p.124]
-
Jun 5, 2014Even without any very particularly illuminating extras, though, Superunknown is a Nineties benchmark.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 44 out of 47
-
Mixed: 1 out of 47
-
Negative: 2 out of 47
-
May 7, 2015
-
Jan 28, 2023
-
Jan 22, 2021