10 Greatest Supergroups In Rock History
1. Audioslave
It was a heartbreaking day when Rage Against the Machine finally decided to take an indefinite hiatus. Though you understood Zack de la Rocha wanting to stretch out into something else, it still felt like the group had a lot of unfinished musical business left to settle. While Tom Morello understood that no one could replace Zack, the band soldiered on by getting one of the greatest singers of the modern age in their corner.
Around the same time that Soundgarden decided to call it quits, Chris Cornell started to warm up to the idea of making a supergroup with the non-de-la-Rocha members of Rage, forming Audioslave as a middle ground between their two genres. Don't go thinking that this is just Rage with a different singer though. Chris's fingerprints are all over the band's records from start to finish, having a lot more in common with the golden age of rock and roll, where the name of the game was kickass riffs that made you feel like you could take on the world.
With tracks like Cochise and Like a Stone to their name, Audioslave have carved out a new legacy for each of their members, being one of the few supergroups that felt like more than just a fun experiment. These were musicians that left their old sound behind and managed to create another musical legacy out of nothing.