To say that Audioslave's third effort is bottom-heavy would not be an understatement. In fact it would be the hard, cold truth. The album starts off with a stutter, showing a band that seems to have ...

With their third album, "Revelations," Audioslave has entered dangerous-yet-familiar territory: they are a formulaic rock band. This has happened to legions of bands before Audioslave, and will ...

Plans for the record materialized fairly quickly after Audioslave—Morello, singer Chris Cornell, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk—wrapped up their Exile tour. In January 2006, the band ...

“The original fire has died and gone/but the riot inside moves on,” Chris Cornell sings on the first single from Audioslave’s third album. This might be the group’s way of saying that anyone still ...

•Audioslave, “Revelations” (Epic, in stores Tuesday) – “Led Zeppelin meets Earth, Wind & Fire” is how Tom Morello described the ‘Slave’s third album to in April, and frontman Chris Cornell has been ...

Following a promising self-titled debut in 2002 and the 2005 follow-up "Out of Exile," Audioslave's latest outing shows the band has confidently hit its stride. Composed of former Soundgarden frontman ...

Bob Dylan doesn't print lyrics in his liner notes, but Audioslave does. A pity, that, because Chris Cornell might do well to hide some of his scribblings. Not that he doesn't try: "I am such a wreck,' ...

When they formed three years ago, Audioslave sounded like a marriage of convenience. Or worse, a corporate merger. By mating one popular singer shorn of his band (Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell) with ...

With Audioslave's third release, Revelations, they have perfected a sound that is somehow pure rock--with the requisite powerful riffs--and still a little boring. Revelations starts off with heavy ...