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Chris Cornellin kuoleman aikaan tekeillä ollut uusi levy on tällä hetkellä pysähdyksissä. Syynä siihen on se, ettei muu bändi ole saanut lauludemojen mastereita, joita Cornell kuolemansa aikaan työsti. Kim Thayilin mukaan heillä on demoista kopiot, mutta he tarvitsevat masterit jotta voivat tehdä päällekkäisäänityksiä. Bändi haluaisi saada levyn valmiiksi, mutta he eivät noita tiedostoja ole pyynnöistä huolimatta saaneet.
 
Thayil myös kertoi haastattelussa keskustelleensa Matt Cameronin ja Ben Shepherdin kanssa yhteistyön jatkamisesta live-esiintymisten muodossa. Kaikki kolme haluavat soittaa Soundgardenin biisejä livenä, mutta Thayilin mukaan ainoa keino jolla se on mahdollista on että he soittavat yhdessä. Soundgardenin nimellä se ei kuitenkaan todennäköisesti tule tapahtumaan.
 
Speaking of unheard material, what state was the unfinished Soundgarden album in, and will it see the light of day?
 
It was demos, but the demo quality was pretty good, 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 and bass techs, are all also record producers and recording engineers, so we love that they want to go on the road with us, and we love the guys in the studio with us, but the only people who do both are Nate Yaccino, Josh Evans and Dave French. Those guys have worked with us in the studio and onstage, and thats a great family to have, to be involved in all aspects of a bands career. So that will help us.
 
We tried to finish the album two years ago, but were not in possession of any of the demos that Chris was working on
 
So they come and record parts that we overdub on the demos. Right now, thats all kind of stalled. We tried to get this going two years ago, but were not in possession of any of the demos that Chris was working on with them. We have copies of them, but what we need are the files, so that wed be able to overdub and finish the record. We are not in possession of those.
 
And what will it take to get hold of those?
 
We dont know. Weve asked nicely, weve suggested that this will benefit all parties, if the band could just have these files, and we could finish the songs we were working on.
 
But there seems to be some confusion amongst various parties as to what that would entail and how that works, and who that would benefit. And its been tiring, you know. And we cant move on until some future date when someone realises the value of allowing the creative partners to have access to the material.
 
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