The mysterious image on the cover of Soundgarden’s Superunknown is not a “screaming elf” with its hands in the air.
Maybe you already knew this, and if you did, kudos! You’re ahead of the curve.
For the rest of us, the image on the cover of Superunknown has always been a very mysterious image. As stated above, it looks like a screaming elf with its hands in the air.
As you’ll see below, the elf is actually Chris Cornell, and the elf’s hands are the faces of bandmates Ben Shepherd & Kim Thayil.