10 Perfect Supergroups In Rock History

Looking back on how history unfolded, Rage Against the Machine may have broken up and a very inopportune time. Just when the election was going on in America and right before the 9/11 attacks rocked the country to its core, the band were on the verge of a breakup, with Zack de la Rocha going AWOL and losing the one that gave a voice to all of that anger in songs like Guerrilla Radio and Killing in the Name. The band were left to start back at zero again, but they ended up finding an even more charismatic vocalist through the help of Rick Rubin.

After asking around for different singers, the band finally connected with Chris Cornell, who was already coming off of a pretty tumultuous breakup with Soundgarden. Now with a singer that had a lot more melodic background, Audioslave turned into one of the more rootsy rock bands to come out of the scene in the early '00s, taking the sounds of old school rock and roll and pumping it up on steroids, like the screaming sounds of Cochise and the ballad-esque songs like Like a Stone.

Although you can definitely hear the lineage of both bands in these songs, there was never a point where they started to rest on their laurels or anything, with albums like Revelations getting even more inventive with what they could do as a four piece. Since this was the age when post grunge first started to rule the airwaves, Audioslave gave us a reason to have gargantuan riffs back on the radio again.