“I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past

Audioslave backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel show in 2005.

Featuring members of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden, Audioslave were the ultimate 2000s supergroup. Between 2002 and 2006, they released three albums that mixed classic rock dynamics with an alt-rock edge. In 2006, as they released their third and final album Revelations, guitarist Tom Morello and singer Chris Cornell told Classic Rock why their union felt like a breath of fresh air after their previous bands – and why RATM-style politics had no place in Audioslave.

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