AUDIOSLAVE To Sound Less Like RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE And SOUNDGARDEN On Upcoming CD

July 30, 2004

AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello has told MTV.com that the group's next record will sound less like a combination of the bandmembers' previous bands, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and SOUNDGARDEN, than was the case with their 2002 self-titled debut.

"The thing that feels different [about the upcoming second album compared to the first] is there's even more spontaneity to it," Morello said. "With the last record, each of us was inevitably bringing some of our musical histories to the room. This record, it feels like, is just AUDIOSLAVE. A lot of the songs grew up out of this fresh soil of getting to know each other.

"When we played the last record, we had never even played a single live show together," Morello continued. "Now we have over a year's worth of touring under our belts and the chemistry has developed further to make it more of a unique entity."

AUDIOSLAVE have 22 songs written for their second record and are about halfway through recording them with producer Rick Rubin.

"He's the fifth Beatle," Morello said of Rubin. "He's a great collaborative partner. He has a big-picture way of looking at music, which only tends to bring out the best with the artists he works with."

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