{"id":589098,"date":"2025-11-23T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589098\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:41:11","slug":"tom-morello-shares-update-on-unheard-audioslave-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589098\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Morello shares update on unheard Audioslave material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/tom-morello\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Morello<\/a> has given an update on the status of unheard music from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/audioslave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audioslave<\/a>, the band he formed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/soundgarden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundgarden<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/chris-cornell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Cornell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The supergroup \u2013 which also included Morello\u2019s fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/rage-against-the-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rage Against The Machine<\/a> musicians Tom Commerford and Brad Wilk \u2013 came together in 2001 and released three studio albums before separating in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Morello and Cornell did reunite for a one-off show in January 2017 at the \u2018Anti-Inaugural Ball\u2019 on the day of Donald Trump\u2019s first inauguration as US President, but that came just four months before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/soundgarden-audioslave-singer-chris-cornell-died-aged-52-2073457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell took his own life in May that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morello teased in 2019 that there was \u201ca record\u2019s worth\u201d of unreleased material from the Audioslave archives, and at the time, he said he believed all of that music would be released \u201cat some point\u201d. In the six intervening years, however, there have been no updates on the status of the recordings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now, he has provided an update in an interview with SNSMix. Explaining why they have never been released, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s not for lack of anything other than that just we don\u2019t have it together. There\u2019s no plan to not put it out. I would love for it to get in the world and hopefully it will one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like here\u2019s the 10 best jams,\u201d he added. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s like, someone likes this one, someone\u2019s not feeling that one. So, we had from each of the three Audioslave records, we had songs left over, some of which are really great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/vicky-cornell-says-all-unreleased-soundgarden-music-will-see-the-light-of-day-2838671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornell\u2019s wife, Vicky, said that all previously material from her late husband would \u201csee the light of day\u201d eventually<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s alive that way and his legacy lives on,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo it\u2019s the most important thing to me, seeing how much people love him, miss him, respect him, and how much we want more of his music out there. So everything will be released.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/soundgarden-are-pretty-close-to-finishing-their-final-album-with-chris-cornell-3911244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundgarden issued an update on the status of their own new music featuring archive vocals from Cornell<\/a>. They had been working on an album at the time of his death, and now drummer Matt Cameron has said they are \u201cpretty close\u201d to finishing it off and planning for its release.<\/p>\n<p>In the months following Cornell\u2019s death, Morello revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/tom-morello-chris-cornell-planned-reunite-audioslave-2145592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they had been discussing another Audioslave reunion before he passed<\/a>, and also said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/tom-morello-will-never-recover-chris-cornells-death-2128431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he did not think he would ever recover from losing Cornell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Morello has given an update on the status of unheard music from Audioslave, the band he formed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-589098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-rock","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115600011062233921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}