Tom Morello Reveals Unreleased Audioslave Songs

Tom Morello, guitarist for the supergroup Audioslave, shared in a recent interview that the band holds an album's worth of unreleased songs but lacks concrete plans to release them anytime soon. The revelation, made during a conversation with the YouTube channel SNSMix, underscores the ongoing limbo for fans eager to hear the leftover tracks from the group's three studio albums, recorded between 2001 and 2007.

Audioslave formed in 2001 when Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk, fresh from parting ways with Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha, teamed up with Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell at the suggestion of producer Rick Rubin. The collaboration sparked immediate chemistry during an initial tryout session in which they wrote "Light My Way," a track that appeared on their self-titled debut album. As Morello later recalled, Cornell's performance on the song "sounded transcendent," leading to over 20 compositions in just three weeks of rehearsals.

The band's first album, released on November 19, 2002, via Epic and Interscope, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and eventually achieved triple-platinum status in the United States. It featured...