AUDIOSLAVE Frontman Says New CD Is 'Just Another Step In The Direction Of Owning Our Identity'

September 4, 2006

AOL Music News spoke to AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell about the group's third album, "Revelations", which is scheduled to drop on Tuesday (September 5). The band's second album in as many years follows 2005's "Out of Exile".

"Part of the AUDIOSLAVE theory is that if we keep writing and not let too much time go between visits to the studio, then the ball is always rolling," Cornell told AOL Music News. "It definitely goes a lot easier that way. From the time we wrote our first record, we had a lot of other ideas and other songs to go back and start with."

As for what fans can expect from "Revelations", Cornell says the album joins together aspects of the first two. "Musically, they're kind of polarized. You had the melodic sort of pretty songs and somber songs living on the same record with very aggressive, riff-oriented hard rock songs," he said of their previous efforts. "On this record I think we kind of married the two. All of our rock songs have attention to melody; our melodic songs have rocking choruses and are more aggressive. It's just another step in the direction of owning [our] identity."

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