Seattle’s Soundgarden will release 'King Animal' on November 13th 2012, the band’s first new studio album in over 15 years.

'King Animal' will be released on Vertigo Records, an imprint of the UK's Mercury Music Group, home to Metallica, Black Sabbath and The Killers. The album's first single, 'Been Away Too Long' will be available via digital retailers on September 27th. The band co-produced their sixth studio album with longtime Soundgarden friend and producer Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Pearl Jam) and recorded at Studio X in Seattle. 'King Animal' was mixed by Joe Barresi (The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer) in Pasadena, California.

With two Grammy award wins, seven overall nominations and over 21 million records sold worldwide, Soundgarden redefined rock music for a whole generation and had a revolutionary impact on the course of musical history. At the dawn of 2010, the band, Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd, announced a new beginning. In the last three years since Soundgarden has reunited, they released their first retrospective, 'Telephantasm', which was certified platinum, their first live album, 'Live on I-5', penned the end title song, 'Live to Rise' for the feature film The Avengers which went to Number 1 on Modern and Active Rock radio, and headlined sold-out shows and festivals around the world including Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park, London in July. Now, comes the band's first collection of new songs since the 1990's.

The writing and recording of the album was a true collaborative effort. Riotous album opener and first single 'Been Away Too Long' finds Soundgarden back at it with a double-edged blast of homecoming celebration and urban angst. 'King Animal' can be explosive, as in 'Blood On The Valley Floor', nightmarish ('Worse Dreams') or wistful ('Halfway There'), leading us through changing sonic landscapes that can embrace both the jazz inflections of 'Black Saturday' and the feral rocker 'Attrition', with compelling lyrics by bassist Ben Shepherd. The subject matter is broad - Kim Thayil's lyrics for 'Non-State Actor' are a sharp and cynical take on the powers behind political thrones, while Cornell's bruised and introspective 'Bones of Birds' explores the terrors and vulnerabilities of parenthood.

Soundgarden remain a truly ‘alternative’ band as they embark on the next chapter of their journey, steadfast in their roots with 15 years of growth behind them. 'King Animal' follows the musical evolution of one of the world's most groundbreaking bands.

Tracklisting for 'King Animal' is as follows:

1. Been Away Too Long
2. Non-State Actor
3. By Crooked Steps
4. A Thousand Days Before
5. Blood On the Valley Floor
6. Bones of Birds
7. Taree
8. Attrition
9. Black Saturday
10. Halfway There
11. Worse Dreams
12. Eyelid’s Mouth
13. Rowing

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Note: Best fucking news, ever (in my opinion). By the way, the single 'Been Away Too Long' will premiere this Wednesday (September 19th) on rock radio stations, worldwide (possibly tomorrow as some stations have already received the single to air).

Aerosmith's new album titled "Music From Another Dimension" will be released on August 28 via Columbia Records. Their first song to be made available from the CD is a reworked version of the band's 1991 outtake "Legendary Child", which was originally written during the "Get A Grip" sessions. The track, will also be included in the upcoming film "GI Joe: Retaliation", the movie release of which has now been pushed back to March 2013.

For the record, as you mentioned... This is simply for the movie, and not from the forthcoming album (set to be released this Fall). This is from Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell’s interview with KROQ this morning: http://kroq.radio.com/2012/04/04/soundg … d-so-fast/

“We’ve been working on a new album for a while and it’s taken a while because we’ve ended up touring a few times in the middle of writing it and recording it… We’re pretty much done with that. We’re at the mixing stage of it and then this idea came up that we’d contribute a song for The Avengers film and so it’s actually the newest song that we have… Let’s take a song we’ve been working on for the album, but none of them were really right, which happens sometimes, so we thought, let’s do another one. That’s the beauty of it.”

After listening to the world premiere of his song over the phone, Cornell commented, “…this never stops freaking me out, that, this was written so recently and recorded recently, like last week… I barely remember it, it happened so fast. And now I’m hearing it coming over a phone.”

Although the single is grower for me. At least, it's safe to say... This track is not from the album. A complete standalone (written for the film itself).