Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil has introduced a brand new memoir, A Screaming Life.
Arriving in Could 2026 through HarperCollins, the guitarist reveals he’s spent “the previous few years” engaged on the e book, and in it he tells his personal life story of rising up in Chicago earlier than heading over to Seattle with Hiro Yamamoto, and naturally serving to to type the almighty Soundgarden.
An outline of A Screaming Life – which has the tagline Into The Superunknown With Soundgarden And Past – on HarperCollins reads: “From Soundgarden’s humble beginnings manifesting grunge in Seattle’s beer-soaked punk golf equipment to their revered standing at present as rock icons, the band’s journey has been nothing wanting extraordinary. In A Screaming Life, founding member and guitar god Kim Thayil goes backstage to introduce the band that fearlessly pushed the boundaries of rock, invented a brand new style and amassed fervent followers from each nook of the world.”
We’ll study how the quartet “confronted the triumphs and challenges on the street to their meteoric rise”, in addition to the truth that “Soundgarden was formed by the varied backgrounds of its creators: Thayil’s Indian heritage and founding bassist Hiro Yamamoto’s Japanese background added distinctive dimensions to the band’s id, influencing not solely their music but additionally their experiences within the trade.”
This memoir information after all comes proper earlier than Soundgarden’s induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor Of Fame, which takes place on November 8 at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater. There’s additionally been discuss in current months of the ultimate, unreleased Soundgarden album. In September, drummer Matt Cameron mentioned that there wasn’t a launch date for it simply but, however they’re “positively over midway executed”, and that Kim was “within the strategy of ending his guitar elements; he desires to verify they get precisely the best way he desires them.”