Give all your love to Audioslave’s new, complete sound
By Dan Wohl | Sep. 28, 2006Having been birthed from the ashes of the incomparable Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave had some high expectations to live up to. Claims of Audioslave trying to be a recapitated Rage have been oddly persistent following their first two albums, Audioslave and Out of Exile, as even a quick listen makes it clear that the two bands sound very little alike. Assertions of imitation notwithstanding, the real issue critics were probably dealing with was that for a band including 75 percent of one of the '90s' seminal acts, Audioslave just weren't that good. On their new album, Revelations, Audioslave do more Rage-like things than ever. And the ironic thing is, it's their best album yet because of it.
