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10/06/25 | [dcraley]Ufomammut Premiere "Let Me Drown" Soundgarden Cover
The first single from Magnetic Eye Record's Superunknown Redux is here! Italy's UFOMAMMUT has premiered their soaked and stretched cover of lead off track "Let Me Drown". The full tribute album is scheduled for release on July 14th and is the latest in the excellent MER Redux Series.
Getting It Out is such a big fan of the label's ongoing series that we sat down with label head Jadd Shickler for a conversation all about it. Episode 304 will drop next week, but for now, dig into the first taste of the massive double album.
"Something was happening to underground music at the end of the eighties", guitarist Poia muses. "It was a time when a particular branch of rock music was becoming more granitic, powerful and real, free from the clichés of classic metal, and inspired by a more raw, punk attitude. Seattle was the epicenter of that 'sonic earthquake' and those waves reached the world and also Italy, at the outskirts of rock, at the beginning of the nineties. This storm changed our lives, forever. We were doomed and decided to form a band, inspired by both the classics of rock and by the new bands we began to love. This link with the past made sense. Also, King Buzzo in an interview once said that 'Nirvana were The Beatles, while Soundgarden were... Led Zeppelin'."
Urlo adds: "We still remember the first time we listened to 'Badmotorfinger', just after it released way back in 1991", the vocalist recalls. "The riffs, the drums, Chris Cornell's vocals slapped us in the face. Soundgarden took the rock of that period to a different level. And with 'Superunknown' they reached perfection. It is a unique and unattainable record. We take it as a big honour to have the chance to pay tribute to those giants and open this album with 'Let Me Drown', a song that sounds perfect in Soundgarden's hands. We began to play it as it was, but immediately understood that making the piece too similar to the original wasn't the way. So, slowly, little by little, we deconstructed it. We tried to understand the spirit of the song, and did our best to transform it into our own vision: a thunderous desperate vortex, inspired by both music and lyrics. Dealing with Kim Thayil's riffs and Chris Cornell's voice was a challenge, but also a very interesting, deeply satisfying experience. We think that, at the end, we’ve created a very Ufomammut song with the backbone of a great Soundgarden classic."
Superunknown Redux is available as a gatefold marble red and black vinyl 2LP, a gatefold white vinyl 2LP, and a gatefold black vinyl 2LP, and as a Digisleeve 2CD. Pre-order HERE.
Superunknown Redux Tracklist:
1. Ufomammut 'Let Me Drown
2. High Priest feat. Bobby Ferry (16) 'My Wave'
3. Marissa Nadler 'Fell on Black Days'
4. Somnuri 'Mailman'
5. Valley of the Sun 'Superunknown'
6. Frayle 'Head Down'
7. Spotlights 'Black Hole Sun'
8. Horseburner 'Spoonman'
9. Witch Mountain 'Limo Wreck'
10. Beastwars 'The Day I Tried to Live'
11. Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows 'Kickstand'
12. The Age of Truth 'Fresh Tendrils'
13. Marc Urselli's SteppenDoom feat. Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam), Igor Sydorenko (Stoned Jesus), Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Eleven), Albert Kuvezin (Yat-Kha) & Utelo '4th of July'
14. Dozer 'Half'
15. Darkher 'Like Suicide'
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Dan started Getting It Out back in 2018 as a stand alone podcast. He’s been writing for music websites for over a decade and finally decided to start his own. Now living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his wife and kids, he briefly sang for Baltimore’s Pleasant Living.
