Soundgarden - Ultramega OK

Soundgarden released their first full length album in 1988.  It's mainly unremarkable stuff, lots of Led Zeppelin-channelling metal with the Chris Cornell seeking (and finding) his voice over the top of it.  All Your Lies isn't a million miles off the kind of grunge Green River were playing around this time.  Mood for Trouble is more complex, evoking late period Zeppelin while incessant Mace is more akin to Dazed and Confused.

There are two standouts.  Opening track Flower is built on a low, grinding riff and rocks to good effect, its clattering Zep-y rhythm plots the way towards Spoonman amongst others.  The slow trudge of Beyond the Wheel gives Cornell the opportunity to show his range, from the opening foreboding growl to full-on, head-back roar over more grinding riffs.  They would get better than this but interesting to see where they started.