Audioslave forget past

If you haven't already forgotten about Audioslave's roots in Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden, Tom Morello thinks you will come the next record.

"The thing that feels different [about the upcoming second album compared to the first] is there's even more spontaneity to it," Morello said recently. "With the last record, each of us was inevitably bringing some of our musical histories to the room. This record, it feels like, is just Audioslave. A lot of the songs grew up out of this fresh soil of getting to know each other."

Audioslave have 22 songs written for their second record and are about halfway through recording them with producer Rick Rubin.