He was so, almost, anal about it, that it took the piss out of us a lot of the time . Cornell said, "Michael Beinhorn was so into sounds. The band spent time experimenting with different drum and guitar sounds, as well as utilizing techniques such as layering, resulting in an expansive production sound. ![]() Cornell said that getting to know Beinhorn contributed to the length of time Soundgarden spent working on the album. The drum and bass parts were recorded first for each song, and then Cornell and Thayil would lay down their parts over top. Soundgarden took the approach of recording one song at a time. Bad Animals' resident engineer Adam Kasper, who went on to produce Soundgarden's following albums, assisted Beinhorn on the recording process. The album's recording sessions took place from July 1993 to September 1993 at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle, Washington, as according to Cornell "there was never a decent studio in Seattle and now there's one with a Neve console, so it seemed obvious to use it". After two albums with producer Terry Date, the band decided to seek another collaborator, as guitarist Kim Thayil said, "We just thought we'd go for a change." Eventually they settled on producer Michael Beinhorn, who "didn't have his own trademark sound which he was trying to tack on to Soundgarden" and had ideas the band approved. Thayil observed that even though the band spent as much time writing and arranging as it had on previous albums, it spent a lot more time working on recording the songs. Frontman Chris Cornell said that the band members allowed each other more freedom than on past records. The individual band members would work on material on their own and then bring in demos to which the other members of the band would contribute. Soundgarden began work on the album about two months after finishing its stint on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour. 9 on Rolling Stone 's "50 Greatest Grunge Albums" list. Superunknown has been listed by several publications as one of the best albums of the 1990s and a quintessential grunge album. It has been certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. In 1995, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. Five singles were released from the album: " The Day I Tried to Live", " My Wave", " Fell on Black Days", " Spoonman", and " Black Hole Sun", the latter two of which won Grammy Awards and helped Soundgarden reach mainstream popularity. The album also topped the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand charts. ![]() It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 310,000 copies in its opening week. Superunknown was a critical and commercial success and became the band's breakthrough album. Superunknown retained the heaviness of the band's earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences. Produced by Michael Beinhorn and the band themselves, Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Badmotorfinger (1991). Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records.
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