Chris Cornell

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Soundgarden posing for a photograph on a sofa i 2012
"It's been a really amazing and bittersweet process." Matt Cameron on the emotion of making a new Soundgarden album using demo vocals recorded by the late Chris Cornell

By Stef Lach Published

Work on a final Soundgarden album is about 70% complete – and it has been tough for the band to hear Cornell's voice "loud and clear"

Bands & Artists
Chris Cornell live in 2015
Revisiting Chris Cornell’s final album Higher Truth as it turns 10

By Niall Doherty Published

The late Soundgarden frontman's final work was one of his most stripped-down and intimate records.

Bands & Artists
Audioslave onstage in 2005
Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope

By Kevin Murphy Published

Audioslave successfully separated the four members from the shadows of their former bands, but for Chris Cornell it was far more important than that

Biographies
Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell performing onstage and Artis The Spoonman posing for a photograph
How a street musician who played with Frank Zappa inspired one of grunge’s greatest songs

By Dave Everley Published

Inspiration came from an unlikely place for one of the biggest 90s grunge hits

Bands & Artists
Ultramega Kings publicity collage featuring shots of William DuVall, Bill Kelliher, Mark Menghi and Charlie Benante
Listen to new supergroup King Ultramega's cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage

By Fraser Lewry Published

King Ultramega are made up of members of Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax and Metal Allegiance

Bands & Artists
Chris Cornell onstage
"He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

By Everett True Published

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apart from his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

Bands & Artists
Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell
How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to start drinking vomit

By Paul Brannigan Published

Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends

Biographies
2013 Rock n Roll Hall of Fame blues jam supergroup
Watch Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels front the ultimate rock supergroup featuring Rush, Heart, Dave Grohl and Chris Cornell

By Paul Brannigan Published

That time Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run DMC's Daryl McDaniels fronted the ultimate rock supergroup

Concerts & Shows
Chris Cornell publicity photo
"Alcohol is a depressant, so I got depressed": A poignant interview with the late Chris Cornell

By Ian Winwood Published

Classic Rock's final interview with Chris Cornell

Interviews
Scarlet Page's portraits of Lemmy and Jimmy Page
Photographer Scarlet Page on her portraits of Lemmy, David Bowie, Dave Grohl and more

By Paul Brannigan Published

Scarlet Page has shot portraits of some of our greatest rock stars, and she's got stories about all of them

Interviews
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