The Hall of Judgement: Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

Daniel has requested that this release be submitted into the Hall of Judgement. If you agree with the below change request, vote YES. If you don't, vote NO.

Request: Soundgarden's "Louder Than Love" album should be added to The Fallenon top of its existing position in The Gateway.

This change will add the Stoner Metal genre to this release.

Member comment: "Soundgarden's 1989 sophomore album is generally tagged as Alternative Metal on most online metal resources & that's not an unfair assessment as there's a reasonable amount of what we'd go one to know as of grunge going on however I can't help but notice that there's a whole lot of stoner (both the metal & rock varieties) going on too. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if 'Louder Than Love' was released as someone's debut album today it'd be tagged as stoner. Just listen to tracks like 'Ugly Truth', 'Gun' or 'Loud Love' & tell me those groovy, doomy riffs don't tick all of your stoner metal boxes. Then, on the rock side of the equation you get material like 'Get On The Snake', 'Full On Kevin's Mom' & 'Big Dumb Sex' which sit very comfortably alongside the Kyuss' & Queens Of The Stone Age in my opinion. And how can you deny the traditional doom metal credentials of 'Power Trip' or the sludge metal instrumentation of 'I Awake'? This record belongs in The Fallen just as much as it does in The Gateway so I'd like to see it receiving a dual Alternative Metal & Stoner Metal tag."

NOTE: Only members of The Fallen &/or The Gateway can vote on this judgement. Once 15 votes of Yes or No have been entered, the Hall will make its judgement.