Chris Cornell Quits Audioslave

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Sad day.

Chris Cornell released a statement on Thursday that announced the imminent release of his second solo album, "Carry On", and at the same time, confirmed that the members of Audioslave were heading their separate ways. The statement read, "Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave." While Cornell was announcing the break up of Audioslave, he left off with kinds words for his bandmates. "I wish the other three members [Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Bard Wilk] nothing but the best in all of their future endeavors." With that brief statement, the band that generated so much hype about its formation in the early 2000s has disbanded.
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Found out about this about 20 minutes ago. :o

How unbelievably lame is this? Never got a chance to see them. :(

At least this means Rage Against The Machine may reform permanently. Shame though as I preferred Audioslave. :(
 
Early stuff from the Audioslave/Audioslave album was brilliant and live they were just out of this world saw them 3 times. Unfortunatly Revelations really did feel like a "lets get this over with quick as we've got a 3 album deal" record. Had its high points but was just rubbish overall compared to the 1st and 2nd releases.

Lets hope his new solo album is better than his 1st, and fingers crossed that RATM reform properly and do a tour :)
 
This relationship was always destined to end. Cornell just fits the 'solo singer' a bit too well. Musically I felt the latest album had some great guitar bits and vocals but it just felt like they did it for the sake of releasing another album.
 
J1nxy said:
Early stuff from the Audioslave/Audioslave album was brilliant and live they were just out of this world saw them 3 times. Unfortunatly Revelations really did feel like a "lets get this over with quick as we've got a 3 album deal" record. Had its high points but was just rubbish overall compared to the 1st and 2nd releases.
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The reason you only like the first album was because it was basically Rage but with Chris Cornell. Revelations is Audioslave matured into it's own band.
 
You gotta wonder if the band are a nightmare to work with, going through singers like they do lol
 
naffa said:
The reason you only like the first album was because it was basically Rage but with Chris Cornell. Revelations is Audioslave matured into it's own band.
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No the reason I didn't like revelations as much as Audioslave or Out of Exile is that it felt rushed and unpolished. As I said It sounded like a lets get the contract over with so we can split release.
 
The band broke up once before so they always had that personality clash going on.

Many of the songs on the 3rd record were written directly after the 2nd. As far as I'm aware they never had any kind of proper record deal. Cornell is on Interscope and Rage were on Epic. They had a sort of deal between them (as the 1st and 3rd albums were on Epic and the 2nd on Interscope) to honour both parties contracts.
 
Well I can't wait for Chris Cornell's solo album. Hopefully he'll tour with it. :D Seeing you know my name live would just be the ultimate experience. :D :D
 
they were never going to be around forever. they were just something for the ex-rage members to do after Zack left rage. shame for the people who didn't get to see them and wanted to though
 
awwwww :(

i never even got to see em live, such a great band

revelations is such a great album, i prefer over out of exile by far.
 
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Mohinder said:
wtf?

They were with Zack as RATM for nine years, and with Chris as Audioslave for six... that's hardly 'going through singers'.
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But at the same time the instrument section stays the same, yet they change singers.
Wonder if there are maybe certain pulls in some direction?
I didn't really mean it to sound as drastic as it probably did though lol
 
JUMPURS said:
But at the same time the instrument section stays the same, yet they change singers.
Wonder if there are maybe certain pulls in some direction?
I didn't really mean it to sound as drastic as it probably did though lol
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Zack left Rage because the rest of the band changed managment and decided to release Renagades. He didn't want to release Renagades and as a result, left because the "decision making process" had "broken down".

Cornell left Audioslave because he couldn't see himself singing for them anymore or singing for anyone other than himself, anymore.
 
Mohinder said:
wtf?

They were with Zack as RATM for nine years, and with Chris as Audioslave for six... that's hardly 'going through singers'.
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Exactly what I was thinking.

I'm not too bothered about the split really, they were never even a shadow of RATM or Soundgarden, and I hope this brings about a Rage reformation.
 
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