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Soundgarden to release final album with late frontman Chris Cornell: ‘It’s a gift to Chris’

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

nypost.com

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

And, yes, with Chris Cornell.

Indeed, the black hole that was left when the grunge god died by suicide in 2017 will be filled with some sun again: The band plans to release the final album made with its frontman.

"It would be a great gift to the fans," Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil told Rolling Stone. "And I do think about this, and I don't know how strange this sounds, but I feel like it's a gift to Chris too."

The group, which was just announced as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, plans to finish the LP that they never completed before Cornell's death at 52.

"Our objective and goal was always to complete that [album]," Thayil said.

"I probably have OCD enough to not want to leave something unfinished or incomplete like that," he continued.

Thayil noted a desire to "attend to our body of work and our catalog."

"I think everyone in the band feels that way," he said. "I don't just to attend to my work, but the collective work, and in this case specifically, the work of Chris."

King Animal was pretty weak so I don't have high hopes for this. Cornell seemed to wreck his higher pitch vocals after that first Audioslave album but no one seemed to tell him. Still excited to hear what this sounds like.

(Best King Animal track?)

 

[bender]

Too painful.

 

[Gp1]

I'm in

 

[TexMex]

Come on

 

[DarkArterialGore]

Soundgarden to release final album with late frontman Chris Cornell: ‘It’s a gift to Chris’

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

nypost.com

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

And, yes, with Chris Cornell.

Indeed, the black hole that was left when the grunge god died by suicide in 2017 will be filled with some sun again: The band plans to release the final album made with its frontman.

"It would be a great gift to the fans," Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil told Rolling Stone. "And I do think about this, and I don't know how strange this sounds, but I feel like it's a gift to Chris too."

The group, which was just announced as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, plans to finish the LP that they never completed before Cornell's death at 52.

"Our objective and goal was always to complete that [album]," Thayil said.

"I probably have OCD enough to not want to leave something unfinished or incomplete like that," he continued.

Thayil noted a desire to "attend to our body of work and our catalog."

"I think everyone in the band feels that way," he said. "I don't just to attend to my work, but the collective work, and in this case specifically, the work of Chris."

King Animal was pretty weak so I don't have high hopes for this. Cornell seemed to wreck his higher pitch vocals after that first Audioslave album but no one seemed to tell him. Still excited to hear what this sounds like.

(Best King Animal track?)

I left that King Animal playlist playing in the background as I'd never heard that album before and his clean upper range sounds pretty good at around 3min into the song "Rowing"

 

[Little Mac]

One of my favorite Bond themes (and movies).

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I left that King Animal playlist playing in the background as I'd never heard that album before and his clean upper range sounds pretty good at around 3min into the song "Rowing"

It does sound good here. I'm talking about the cat death sounds he made on Non State Actor and a bunch of other songs over the last 20 years.

(22 seconds in)

 

[Hookshot]

Dude killed himself, digging up old stuff to make an extra buck off of him seems a bit tacky in this instance.

 

[hullostranger]

Conflicted on this. Always down for more Soundgarden but not like this.

 

[DGrayson]

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Soundgarden to release final album with late frontman Chris Cornell: ‘It’s a gift to Chris’

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

nypost.com

Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again.

And, yes, with Chris Cornell.

Indeed, the black hole that was left when the grunge god died by suicide in 2017 will be filled with some sun again: The band plans to release the final album made with its frontman.

"It would be a great gift to the fans," Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil told Rolling Stone. "And I do think about this, and I don't know how strange this sounds, but I feel like it's a gift to Chris too."

The group, which was just announced as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, plans to finish the LP that they never completed before Cornell's death at 52.

"Our objective and goal was always to complete that [album]," Thayil said.

"I probably have OCD enough to not want to leave something unfinished or incomplete like that," he continued.

Thayil noted a desire to "attend to our body of work and our catalog."

"I think everyone in the band feels that way," he said. "I don't just to attend to my work, but the collective work, and in this case specifically, the work of Chris."

King Animal was pretty weak so I don't have high hopes for this. Cornell seemed to wreck his higher pitch vocals after that first Audioslave album but no one seemed to tell him. Still excited to hear what this sounds like.

(Best King Animal track?)

I don't know. He was sounding like his prime self, hitting Beyond the Wheel in 2017.



If I recall the Audioslave era killed his voice because of smoking and drinking heavily. After quitting both, he really managed to get back to a good spot.

Soundgarden is a top 5 band for me and I am excited to hear how this sounds. I think it will be good shit, considering the emotions behind it.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I'm up for hearing it, I also think Soundgarden are one of the greats, and if this new album doesn't do it for me, I can just ignore it.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

 

[TheInfamousKira]

They don't mind stealing bread from the mouths of deadfrontmen?

Wrong band.

 

[MrCunningham]

yeah, I remember hearing something about this... This is the alleged 'lost' album that Soundgarden was working on before Chis Cornell's untimely death. But it has been held in limbo due to disputes with Cornell's window?

 

[Audiophile]

Oh my...

For covers, I'll always come back to these:
Norah Jones
Maxence Cyrin
Ramin Djawadi (Westworld)

 

[AJUMP23]

exploitative.

 

[StueyDuck]

if it's to memorialize and immortalize him then sure.

if it's nice easy money for the band then they can get fucked. (I was more of an Audioslave fan anyway)

 

[Mr Reasonable]

if it's to memorialize and immortalize him then sure.

if it's nice easy money for the band then they can get fucked. (I was more of an Audioslave fan anyway)

Pretty sure that there's relatively little money in music now, or at least for a band who had their heyday in the 90s when albums sold millions of copies and will have made all the members of Soundgarden multimillionaires- it's highly unlikely that this will make any difference to their personal fortunes.

I would expect they just want people who care about their music to be able to hear the music they worked on together.