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Soundgarden
Soundgarden, formed in Seattle in 1984, predated most of the other major grunge-era bands by several years and helped establish the genre's foundational sound, blending heavy metal's musical weight and technical guitar work with punk's rawer energy and more emotionally direct songwriting. Frontman Chris Cornell's exceptionally wide vocal range, capable of both a powerful, metal-influenced wail and more subdued, melodic passages within the same song, distinguished Soundgarden's sound from many grunge contemporaries and made Cornell one of the era's most technically respected vocalists. The band's 1994 album Superunknown became a major commercial breakthrough, and the singles "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman" brought Soundgarden's more explicitly metal-influenced version of grunge to a mainstream radio and MTV audience alongside the era's other major Seattle acts. Cornell's 2017 suicide, following the band's initial 1997 breakup and a subsequent 2010 reunion, ended Soundgarden's active career for a second and final time, and his death, alongside those of several other prominent grunge-era musicians, has contributed to the genre's lasting reputation for genuine personal and psychological struggle running alongside its commercial and critical success.
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Radiohead
Radiohead's 1997 album OK Computer, exploring themes of technological alienation, consumerism, and modern anxiety through increasingly experimental art-rock arrangements, is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential albums of the 1990s, moving well beyond the more straightforward alternative rock of the band's earlier hit "Creep." The band's 2000 follow-up Kid A represented an even more dramatic stylistic departure, incorporating electronic and ambient influences that surprised and initially divided fans and critics, before the album went on to become widely reassessed as one of the most artistically ambitious major-label rock releases of its era. Radiohead's 2007 self-release of In Rainbows using a "pay what you want" pricing model, letting fans decide how much, if anything, to pay for the digital album, became one of the most widely discussed experiments in alternative music distribution and directly influenced subsequent industry conversations about digital pricing models. The band's willingness to repeatedly abandon commercially successful sounds in pursuit of new artistic directions, similar in spirit to Miles Davis's genre-shifting jazz career, has made Radiohead one of the most consistently critically respected rock bands of the past three decades, with an influence extending well beyond the alternative rock genre they originally emerged from.
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