RELEASE INFO
September 27, 2024 at Noon ET
About
Soundgarden’s fifth studio album, Superunknown turned 30 in 2024, and Collectionzz is proud to present the official screenprinted poster illustrated by Your Cinema celebrating the 30th anniversary!
Superunknown is one of the most important albums of the 90's and the band’s most successful release, having been certified as 6x platinum by the RIAA. It earned a Grammy nomination for “Best Rock Album” and won two Grammy awards for the band’s musicianship and playing on their recordings of “Spoonman” and “Black Hole Sun”. The tracks won “Best Metal Performance” and “Best Hard Rock Performance” respectively. Both songs were written by Chris Cornell for the band.
Accolades aside, this album serves as the soundtrack for the lives of those of us who were fortunate enough to be alive and listening to music in 1994. And even if you happened to discover Soundgarden or Superunknown later, or even in the future, you still understand the importance of it.
Think for a moment the singles spawned from Superunknown: “My Wave”, “The Day I Tried To Live”, “Fell On Black Days” and of course “Superunknown”. It is truly a rare album which one can listen to from beginning to end without skipping a single song.
We can now say we've released a Soundgarden poster. Our lives are complete.
EDITIONS
Timed Edition - $50.00
- Artist: Ryan Besch
- Size: 18" x 24"
- Edition Size: Timed
- Seven Color Screenprint by Lady Lazarus
- Hand Numbered
- Holographic sticker on back of print for authenticity
Black Rainbow Foil Variant - $100.00
- Artist: Ryan Besch
- Size: 18" x 24"
- Edition Size: 250
- Seven Color Screenprint on Rainbow Foil by Lady Lazarus
- Hand Numbered
- Holographic sticker on back of print for authenticity
INSPIRATION
Superunknown was the record where Soundgarden really hooked me. Seeing the video for Outshined in late ’91 got me to pick up Badmotorfinger (on cassette) and a little later on, Louder Than Love. Fast forward to ’94 and after hearing the first two singles, I went out and picked up Superunknown (but by this time I’d finally gotten a CD player). It had all of the weird time signatures and heaviness of Badmotorfinger, but was also full of hooks and some of my favorite, slithery Ben Shepherd bass lines. Let Me Drown, Limowreck and Fell on Black Days were some of the stand outs. Not long after, they released the video for Black Hole Sun.
There had been music videos with dark subject matter before, but the way they presented these nightmare-ish images in an ultra saturated, technicolor way, made it really stand out. I loved the way it felt like a mix of David Lynch, Terry Gilliam and the work of some of the alternative cartoonists I was getting into at the time, like Charles Burns. A suburban fever dream. This poster is my love letter to that record and that video for Black Hole Sun.” -Ryan Besch
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