Tom Morello's new band Audioslave (the band made out of three RATM members and Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell) is already in the news after the recording of a video for their debut track 'Cochise' - the video is lit by showers of pyrotechnics. Such were the flashes and bangs involved in filming the vid locals thought a terrorist incident had hit the LA suburb.
"The local police and news station literally received thousands of calls from people who thought the city was under siege," Morello told reporters. "All the freeways were blocked because they thought there was an attack occurring. Like someone had decided to attack and the target was going to be the San Fernando Valley."
Morello was keen to stress Audioslave is not a one hit project: "There's almost another album's worth of stuff already done. The most difficult part of the process was narrowing down the tunes for the first record because the other songs are every bit as good. We ended up choosing the songs that made for the best flow of an album, but there are some pretty fat jams that are still in the can."
Word is that a second album would be released by Soundgarden's record label Universal / Interscope - the first album will be released by RATM's label Sony / Epic.