WATCH: Soundgarden Releases New Video For “Storm”

Soundgarden released a new video for their song, “Storm”.

“Storm” was recorded this past May in Seattle. It is produced by Jack Endino, and according to Blabbermouth, this track is one of seven unreleased recordings on “Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path”, a long awaited and highly anticipated three CD collection of rare and unreleased material that Soundgarden put out on November 24th, 2014.

Kim Thayil, the band’s guitarist, curated and handpicked the B-sides, unreleased tracks, instrumentals, covers, and demos that became this collection.

Of the selection and curating process, Thayil told Blabbermouth: “As album sets go, this one has been fun to collect and compile over the decades. I personally may have referenced this project a number of times over the years, going back almost twenty of them to the mid-Nineties!”

One could make the argument that “Echo of Miles” offers another view onto the history and musical development of one of the legendary bands that came to define the so-called “Seattle sound” in the early 1990s.

Multimedia artist Josh Graham designed the layout and art for the set. He and the band choose to feature three separate discs – each with it’s own theme, complete with separate mini-jackets, cover art, liner notes booklet and inserts, according to Blabbermouth. In effect, Graham and Soundgarden have put the creativity back into the hands of their fans allowing them to mix and match to create a uniquely personalized layout.

“Storm” is on the first disc of the collection, which has been dubbed “Originals” as it contains songs penned by members of the band.

The video that was recently released weaves together a series of landscapes from the starkly open and rural to the more uniform and confined urban spaces. Despite the changing locations, the videographers have chosen to keep the same composition – black and white footage taken on a cloudy day – as a means of continuity. Described by NME as “hypnotic”, the video features an overlay of inkblots. At first, the inky designs resemble a Rorschach test, which may be used in Psychology to examine a patient’s personality characteristics, emotional functioning, or in some cases as a means to detect an underlying thought disorder. But, then it becomes clear that there are actual creatures appearing on screen like spiders. Dark, thought provoking, and moody were elements that made up classic Soundgarden material, and “Storm” fits perfectly into that lineage.

Check it out: