Soundgarden 'pretty close' to finishing final album with Chris Cornell
Soundgarden have experimented with a new sound on their final album with the late Chris Cornell.
Soundgarden are "pretty close" to finishing their final album with late frontman Chris Cornell.
The Seattle grunge legends - who were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - are putting the final touches to their first record since 2012's King Animal.
Drummer Matt Cameron has teased that the band head in a different direction on some of the tracks, which is "bittersweet", as it would have been nice to share a "new chapter" with Cornell, who tragically died by suicide aged 52 in 2017.
In an interview with Allison Hagendorf for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he said: "There's very familiar elements in some of this new music, but, yeah, there was a couple songs that felt like it was kind of a new chapter or it could have been a new chapter. So it's really exciting to hear that. It's bittersweet, of course."
He went on: "But, yeah, I'm really excited for people to hear it, have our fans hear it. It's fun for us to be working on it. And sometimes listening to it, it's overpowering. But, yeah, I'm super proud of the music that we did put together. And we're pretty close [to finishing it]. And, yeah, it is nice having Terry [Date, producer] on board with us, for sure."
Guitarist Kim Thayil agreed: "Yeah, it's like we had these various demos, and you had a particular quality. And it was, like, 'Okay, how do we flesh this out?' And then we start doing it, and it's, like, 'This sounds different.' It's almost like you can pinpoint before and after. It's, like, 'Now it's Soundgarden.'"
