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“He has that incredible baritone and that haunted, tortured persona”: these are Chris Cornell’s five favourite singers, in his own words

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell passed away on May 18, 2017. Eight years earlier, he told Classic Rock about the singers who had inspired him

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“Some of our peers thought, ‘Are they going to be corporate sell-outs?’ I don’t know if was jealousy or a feeling of betrayal”: the rise, fall and return of Soundgarden

In 2014, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over his band’s rollercoaster career

Metal Hammer

"Whether it has anything to do with being sober I don't know – but I needed a release": Slash tells the story of his star-studded debut solo album

Slash's band split. He was called a 'sell-out' and 'a cancer'. And through it all he emerged with the first great rock album of the last decade

Metal Hammer

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"The only thing I could hear coming through the window was the bass": Eddie Vedder recalls the Ten single he co-wrote while being locked out of a Pearl Jam rehearsal

But the timeline of the song remains somewhat confusing

MusicRadar

“I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past

In 2006, Audioslave’s Tom Morello and Chris Cornell sat down with Classic Rock to reveal all about their third album, Revelations

Metal Hammer

"I don't like the production of that record. I don't like how it sounds. I don't like how it looks": Soundgarden look back at their breakthrough album Superunknown

Grunge‘s founding fathers, Soundgarden watched the bands they inspired shoot past them. But with their mighty fourth album, Superunknown, they would help define the 1990s

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"I feel like I'm hallucinating and all of a sudden I've listened to this song 15 times in a row. I called Chris Cornell and said, You're a genius": producer Michael Beinhorn on the tensions and triumph of Soundgarden's Superunknown

How forcing Chris Cornell to be more selfish sparked the creation of Soundgarden's finest work

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“For better or worse, you’re gonna hear a lot more lead guitar from me… I went crazy”: Mike McCready offers update on “heavier” new Pearl Jam album

McCready says it is heavier, it has the “melody and energy” of Ten and Vs, and we all might just hear it this year

MusicRadar

"It's a lot heavier than you'd expect": Mike McCready on Pearl Jam's next album, working with Andrew Watt, and the state of the US

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready talks smashed Stratocasters, screaming solos, and why his band need their "asses kicked"

Louder

5 songs featuring Josh Freese on drums (that you might not know were him)

Best of 2023: Tracks from the session drumming ace that might surprise you

MusicRadar

“I played about eight different guitar tunings – I threw the idea of patterns and scales out the window”: Kim Thayil hits back at being called a “sloppy” guitarist

The grunge icon details how the pros and cons of alternate tunings defined Soundgarden’s career, and how his “spontaneous wildness” saw Chris Cornell reposition his amp

Guitar World

Lzzy Hale: 10 records that changed my life

Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale talks the albums that changed her life, from Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper to Sevendust and Disturbed

Metal Hammer

“If I ever run into him in a dream again, I hope I remember to apologize”: the time Chris Cornell revealed he’d been dreaming about Layne Staley

Cornell wrote that he’d been angry at Staley’s funeral and wanted to say sorry

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Soundgarden dispute with Chris Cornell's estate is not over after all – and late frontman's last batch of songs remain shelved

Don't hold your breath for those seven unreleased Chris Cornell songs, says Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron

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10 heavy metal supergroups that actually turned out super

Murderdolls, Audioslave and Roadrunner United have proven that the supergroup can sometimes yield amazing results

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"I looked to John Lennon as a father figure when I was a kid": watch Chris Cornell discuss the influence of John Lennon, and perform a beautiful acoustic version of Imagine, on the Howard Stern show in 2011

The Beatles, and specifically John Lennon, had a huge influence on late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell. Watch him explain why to Howard Stern

Guitar World

“Chris Cornell said I created ‘a symphony of chaos’ – it was his favorite thing about the track. It meant even more because he was gone less than a year later”: Meet Ryan Wariner, go-to session guitarist for everyone from Dave Mustaine to Ann Wilson

He may be a Nashville session cat, but Ryan Wariner doesn’t play country. Music City’s resident rock guitar enthusiast reveals how he ended up playing slide with Megadeth, what it takes to perform a last-minute show with Gene Simmons, and why he sought a different path to his father, country…

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The 50 best collaborations in rock

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

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The Independent UK

15 awful albums by classic bands, from Led Zeppelin to Metallica

Even rock’n’roll heroes can have a bad day at the office, writes Kevin E G Perry

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"It connects with me in a way that I just can't describe, creating a very special environment that no other record can achieve": Chris Cornell on the Pink Floyd album he loved the most

Late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell discovered his favourite Pink Floyd album in his old landlord's record collection

MusicRadar

"This is a song I wrote as a goodbye to my friend Chris Cornell" – Pearl Jam's Mike McCready performs rare live vocal performance with tribute song

Crying Moon is the guitarist's salute to his late Temple Of The Dog bandmate

Louder

“Cameron Crowe said, ‘This is killer, it’s awesome!’”: Jerry Cantrell on how he wrote Alice In Chains’ classic hit Would?

The Alice In Chains songwriter was still grieving the death of Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood when he wrote the song for Crowe’s 1992 grunge film Singles

Louder

The best new rock songs you need to hear this week

Vote for your favourite as Black Stone Cherry, Tempt, Saint Agnes and more duke it out

Metal Hammer

Soundgarden/Nirvana/Pearl Jam supergroup 3rd Secret release their second album The 2nd 3rd Secret without telling anyone: hear it here

Wanna know a secret? This grunge supergroup has just sneaked a new album out

Metal Hammer

Watch Soundgarden cover Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit at Lollapalooza 1992

Watch some true grunge history in action as Soundgarden perform the Nirvana classic as part of their festival set

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