In a recent interview with Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, the musician talked about the potential of the band producing one more album to offer fans.
“It is entirely possible, because that’s what we were doing… We definitely have another record in us. Stuff that’s written, stuff that’s demoed and recorded — certainly,” Thayil said of a possible follow-up to 2012’s King Animal comeback. All it would need is to take the audio files that are available. I’d tighten up the guitar stuff that’s on there, add other stuff. Ben [Shepherd] does the bass. Matt [Cameron] is able to get the drums he wants. We can get the producers we want to make it sound like a Soundgarden record. And yes, we can totally do that.” Cornell death by suicide came after a Soundgarden concert in Detroit in May 2017.
Thayil said the band just need to get their hands on the files of the new album Soundgarden was working on at the time of Cornell’s death and said he’s pretty confident that it will happen if they can work out the legal end of things. “It would be ridiculous if it didn’t,” he said. “But these are difficult things… partnerships and property.” He did seem to shut the door on the possibility of the band re-forming with a new singer, saying, “I do not see us reconfiguring a tour or anything, as other bands have done in the past, without him.”
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