Chris Cornell: Soundgarden'snew album is not a failedattempt at nostalgia

Wed 21st Sep, 2011 in Local News

In the lead-up to his Song Book tour next month, Chris Cornell has told FasterLouder that the new Soundgarden album is in the final stages of completion and assured us that “and it’s not going to sound like a failed attempt at nostalgia.”

Chatting with FL writer davidswan, Cornell spoke candidly about his rocky history as a member of the legendary 90s band and revealed more information about Soundgarden’s forthcoming record, the first since Down on the Upside in 1996: “Soundgarden’s trying to wrap up a new album too, so that’s been my focus. To me it always felt with past Soundgarden albums we were going in a few new directions at the same time… and it feels a lot like that. It feels like it sounds very much like us, but at the same time there’s definitely elements of music that we’re doing that we’ve never done before. It doesn’t sound like anything else, or anyone else, and Soundgarden was always that way, I’m really happy with it. I think it’s going to surprise people, mainly in that it’s not going to sound nostalgic, and it’s not going to sound like a failed attempt at nostalgia or a failed attempt at trying to sound like we did 15 years ago. It doesn’t have that feeling to me at all.”

The full interview with Cornell will be published on FL this Monday 26th September. In the meantime check out our interview with Cornell’s ex-Audioslave bandmate and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello.