SOUNDGARDEN – Chris Cornell Says New Album Should Be Out In October

Chris Cornell estimates that SOUNDGARDEN’s forthcoming studio album, their first with new material since 1996’s Down on the Upside, was 75 percent done when the recently-reunited Seattle grunge heroes were first asked to help contribute to the soundtrack for Joss Whedon’s new superhero film, The Avengers. “It was the last song that was written,” Cornell tells Rolling Stone of ‘Live To Rise’, the soundtrack’s opener, which is available for free download on iTunes, and the first new Soundgarden song to be released in 15 years.

Cornell says Soundgarden’s yet-to-be-titled album will be mastered in a week’s time so, in his mind, “it’s done. It’ll be out in probably October,” he says. “I would say September but I’m just guessing October. We’re pretty much done with everything.” ‘Live To Rise’, a riff-heavy rocker, while not necessarily representative of the entire album’s sound, the singer says, would “work just fine on it.”