The legendary vocalist discusses the movies dark subject, doing soundtracks and whats happening with Soundgardens next album.
But when he asked me, I was pretty excited.
I was hoping that he would ask me, if there was going to be a song.
Cornell is no novice to contributing songs to movie soundtracks, both with Soundgarden and on his own.
So most of my musical influences didnt exist.
So in just constructing the melodies and the arrangement, I needed to use instruments that wouldve existed.
But listening to music from the era what little he could find was not the answer either.
I did listen to some chants, he said.
At one point I had the idea I would plagiarize one of them and weave it through.
That was before I actually had written what I felt like was a good song.
Once I felt like I wrote a good song, I didnt want to obscure it with anything else.
But you never know.
We tend to make pretty long albums.
At some point when we feel like were done, five more songs show up at the doorstep.
He did add that the band was likely to get into the studio sometime this year.
It was really an amazing experience so I think were all motivated to do something again, he said.
The only obstacle really is the same one thats always been there, which is that everybodys always busy.
So it literally has to be planned ahead by two years and thats a hard thing to do.
But its something that we definitely want to do.
But everybody kind of wants to do something.
But Cornell said its not something he thinks about all that much.
Im not trying to be negative about it.
But they deserve ownership of it.
The Promiseis out in theaters now and you might see Soundgardenon the roadin May.
