Soundgarden - Screaming Life

Soundgarden released their debut EP in late 1987, Screaming Life.  It's noteworthy for having two strong heavy rockers on it.  Opening track Hunted Down, has a low slung, menacing riff through it.  Chris Cornell hadn't quite found his voice at this point, he sings this one in a more generic late 80s metal voice.  It's not a particularly Soundgarden-y track, you could imagine it being performed by Alice In Chains.  A lot of the rest of the EP is, while not terrible, not particularly noteworthy.  Songs like Entering and Tears To Forget are kind of scream-y metal, while Little Joe tries to mix that metal with funk with predictably tedious results.  The other real keeper here is Nothing To Say.  Much slower than anything else here, it has a dead-slow-yet-heavy-as-fuck riff that powers through the song.  Here Cornell pushes his singing register to its upper limit and the track is pretty effective.