AUDIOSLAVE - "It Will Come Out When It's Right"
March 11, 2004, 20 years ago
Jon Wiederhorn filed the following report with MTV after chatting with AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello about progress on the band's second album:
"Last time when we went in to make a record, we wrote a song a day," said Morello. "This time, we've done even more. Sometimes we've gotten the skeletons of two songs a day."Audioslave have been intermittently writing and jamming since the end of 2003, and they've currently got between 20 and 25 new songs.
Morello is thrilled with the band's prolific pace, and he's even happier about the quality and diversity of the material. As much as Audioslave want to make a record that rocks as hard as their 2002 self-titled debut (which has sold over 2 million copies), they also want to challenge themselves and push their creative boundaries.
"The songs are heading in some places where none of the four of us have ever gone in our careers before," Morello said. "When we listen back to the daily tapes, we're surprised at the music that's jumping off of them. It's so inspiring to go down to rehearsal every day."Like last time, the bandmembers are spontaneously jamming out riffs and grooves in the studio, writing as they go along. Morello couldn't reveal any new song titles and added that it is far too early to tell how the vibe of the record will differ from the band's first.
"There are so many songs now that depending on the choices we make, they could be totally different records," he said. "We could make it Back In Black (AC/DC), or we could make it The Joshua Tree (U2). But it's really exciting, and I'm looking forward to recording it and letting people in on it."The band plans to focus work on the new record for the foreseeable future and has no plans to tour. There is no target release date.
"It will come out when it's right and when it's great and when we're through with it," Morello said. "We don't like to put an artificial time on it."
