Revelations (Audioslave album)
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| Studio album by Audioslave | ||||
| Released | September 4, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | October 2005 - January 2006 | |||
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| Length | 48:28 | |||
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||
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| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
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(#243, Oct. 2006, p. 127)
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Revelations is the third and final studio album by the American rock supergroup Audioslave, released on September 4, 2006 internationally and a day later in the United States by Epic Records and Interscope Records. The band's lead vocalist Chris Cornell departed from the band shortly after Revelations' release in February 2007. Brendan O'Brien, who has produced or mixed the albums of numerous major rock acts, including Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, King's X, Incubus, and Bruce Springsteen, reunited with Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk after producing the Rage Against the Machine albums Evil Empire and The Battle of Los Angeles and their cover of Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad".
Audioslave had 20 songs written (a few of which were sampled during their 2005 tour), and returned to the studio in early January 2006 to finish recording them. For Revelations, which was influenced by 1960s and 70s music, Cornell adopted his "seventies funk and R&B-flavor vocals." Guitarist Tom Morello described the sound as "Earth, Wind and Fire meets Led Zeppelin". Musically, the album is similar to Audioslave's previous album, but with a twist. The band incorporates soul and funk influences in many (if not all) of the songs on the album. Love, life and loss are all themes on the new album. Political activism is also starting to rear its head in Audioslave's music with songs such as "Wide Awake", which uses the Hurricane Katrina disaster and George W. Bush as subject matter.
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