Soundgarden Want To Complete New Songs Using Chris Cornell’s Demos
Grunge icons Soundgarden have been doing their best to memorialize Chris Cornell after his tragic suicide in 2017. In a recent interview with Music Radar, guitarist Kim Thayil discussed the material the band had been working on before Chris’s death, and revealed that they hope to get the rights to the singer’s demos and put them to use. “It was demos, but the demo quality was pretty good,” says Kim, “because both Chris and Matt had become very interested in their home recording technique, so they might demo a song, and then Ben and I would add our guitars or bass. Maybe Matt might play drums to a riff that Chris had recorded. And that would be recorded by one of our engineers or techs. “This is an interesting thing: our entire backline, our guitar techs an...
