6 Songs for Bruce

6 Songs for Bruce
Demo album by Soundgarden
Recorded	April 24, 1985
Genre	Grunge
Language	English
Producer	Jack Endino

6 Songs for Bruce, also commonly known as 4-Track Demo, is an early single-sided demo cassette tape by American rock band Soundgarden.

The band, at the time a three-piece named Sound Garden, composed of guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Hiro Yamamoto, and Chris Cornell on drums and vocals, recorded the demo in Jack Endino's basement four-track studio on April 24, 1985 for their friend Bruce Pavitt, hence the name of the tape; which features a rare version of "Tears to Forget" sung by Yamamoto, and, as a bonus song, a Cornell's solo recording titled "The Storm". The side B of the cassette, humorously titled Zen Deity Speaks, contains no recordings.

The demo tape was among many of the artifacts displayed at the EMP Museum's Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses exhibit in Seattle, Washington.

6 Songs for Bruce was Soundgarden's second demo; it was preceded by a cassette tape titled The First 15, recorded in 1984.

"Tears to Forget" would be re-recorded in late 1985, with Cornell on vocals and Scott Sundquist on drums, for the C/Z Records compilation album Deep Six, released in 1986. The song was recorded for a third time in 1987, with Matt Cameron on drums, for the band's debut EP Screaming Life.

"The Storm" was re-recorded in May 2014, and retitled as simply "Storm", for the band's rarities box set Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path.

"Incessant Mace" was reissued on the 1986 C/Z Records limited edition cassette-only various artists compilation Pyrrhic Victory. In 1988, the song would be re-recorded, with Cameron on drums, for the band's first full-length album Ultramega OK. The 2017 expanded and remixed reissue of that album featured two previously unreleased takes of "Incessant Mace" from the 1987 "Ultramega EP" session, produced by Endino and musical engineer Chris Hanzsek at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording studio.

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