Soundgarden Unlikely to Release Final Album Before Rock Hall Induction, Drummer Says

A last Soundgarden medium is coming, but we’re not apt to perceive thing from it this year, and surely not earlier the Seattle band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction connected Nov. 8.

“There’s not a acceptable merchandise day oregon thing arsenic of yet,” drummer Matt Cameron, who volition go a two-time inductee aft getting successful with Pearl Jam during 2017. “There were a mates schools of thought, like, ‘Hey, let’s enactment retired a single.’ I deliberation yet we decided we privation to marque definite the full happening is completed earlier we commencement releasing singles. I’m excited for radical to perceive it.”

Cameron, who announced his departure from Pearl Jam on July 7, is understandably excited astir his Rock Hall distinction. “It’s a immense honor,” helium acknowledges. “I haven’t truly wrapped my caput astir it, and it’s not mislaid upon maine that it’s beauteous existent to get successful determination 2 times. I’m feeling large astir everything.” He has blessed memories astir the 2017 ceremony, including David Letterman’s induction code for Pearl Jam arsenic good arsenic watching Yes execute and gathering archetypal drummer Bill Bruford, 1 of his heroes. “Overall it was a beauteous astonishing time,” Cameron recalls. “It wasn’t truly excessively stressful for maine different than to marque definite the show was dialed in, due to the fact that it was a large TV event. But different than that, it was a large evening.”

Getting into the Rock Hall with Soundgarden, however, volition mean thing antithetic to Cameron, who joined the radical successful 1986 and was portion of each of its recordings.

“They’re some immense honors, of course,” helium says. “For me, personally, I helped physique Soundgarden from the crushed up, and I helped make the sound, I think, a small spot much than I did with Pearl Jam, which was decidedly much of an established happening that I came into. So successful that consciousness (Soundgarden’s induction) is simply a small much meaningful for maine arsenic an creator and instrumentalist and songwriter to spell successful with a set that I helped (to) found itself.”

And portion Soundgarden hails from a decidedly alternate country that hasn’t ever fixed credence to established institutions specified arsenic the Rock Hall, Cameron says that “there was ne'er truly a reluctance to acknowledged this honor. I deliberation we’re ever blessed to beryllium recognized by immoderate established entity successful the euphony industry…It felt similar adjacent from the aboriginal days, chap musicians noticed what we were doing, and the euphony manufacture decidedly took notice, so…it was bully to beryllium recognized by the Grammys and whoever else.”

Soundgarden’s induction follows 2 erstwhile nominations, successful 2020 and 2023. The radical finished sixth successful the instrumentality ballot with 233,205.

Cameron is sending the Yamaha drum kit that helium utilized to grounds the archetypal 3 Soundgarden albums, arsenic good arsenic his archetypal Keplinger snare drum. Soundgarden is readying to execute astatine the ceremonial successful Los Angeles — which volition beryllium aired unrecorded via Disney+ — but has not yet announced however the precocious Chris Co...