Soundgarden No Longer Feel Pressure When Making Music

When Soundgarden broke up in 1997, there was little hope that the rockers would reunite, yet alone ever create new music together. But, they re-formed in 2010, toured, then unleashed 2012’s beast of an album, King Animal. Here in 2016, it’d be fair to assume that a new album will be coming soon, right?

Well, maybe. Frontman Chris Cornell has been doing the solo thing lately and Matt Cameron has a big Pearl Jam tour coming up, so it’s hard to say.

According to Pulse of Radio, Cornell spoke recently with Seattle radio station KISW and discussed how much more relaxed Soundgarden is now when it comes to making new music.

Offered Cornell: “I think one of the things that was a factor in us kind of splitting up in the first place was that everything had a clock on it. It was a time period where, I guess in a good way, the music business was still pretty healthy and you were always in a cycle of recording and promoting and then touring, or writing, recording, and touring. And we were late for everything, always.

“We’d sit down and have these meetings, and we ended up not having meetings because it was so awful,” he continued. “But, you know, there’d be a counter in front of us, and someone would put a red X on the date that we were going to start the promotional tour for the album that we had not started to write yet.

“And so now, we just write when there’s no discussion really at all about when it’s going to come out, or what that means; we just write songs . And it doesn’t happen any faster or slower; it just seems like it’s more relaxed.”

Looks like it’s fair to say Soundgarden isn’t in any rush. Maybe that’s a positive?