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Three days before the release of its first studio album in 16 years, King Animal, Soundgarden announced it's brief North American theater tour will hit Seattle's Paramount Theatre Thursday, Feb. 7 and Friday, Feb. 8. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17 at LiveNation.com, Tickets.com, 24-hour kiosk at the Paramount Theatre or charge by phone (877) STG-4TIX.

Soundgarden broke up in 1997 while touring behind the previous year's Down on the Upside. Its members reunited in 2010, playing concerts (including a headlining slot at Lollapalooza and issuing a greatest-hits collection called Telephantasm.