58 BEEN AWAY TOO LONG

Soundgarden

It’s been said that your cherries should go on top. That maxim has been adhered to resolutely by AC/DC, and also Soundgarden with this headbanging opening track from King Animal (their first album in 16 years at the time of its release). Kim Thayil’s guitars crunched into life with ‘fuck-yeah!’ levels of focused enthusiasm, and when Chris Cornell sang ‘I’ve been away for too long’ everyone agreed wholeheartedly. Sadly it was to be their last. Five years later Cornell passed away, leaving behind a shocked, grieving rock world. PG From: King Animal, 2012

Nine Inch Nails (above): The Hand That Feeds was a seething dancefloor banger cloaked in distortion and rage Black Country Communion (above left): rock with a capital ‘R’.