20 years after it was released, Audioslave’s “Like A Stone” has hit a massive milestone – 1 billion streams on YouTube.

The song appeared on the band’s self-titled debut album in 2002.

Audioslave consisted of Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell alongside Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk. Together, they released three albums before breaking up in 2007.

Speaking with Metal Hammer, Morello explained how the supergroup came to be.

“When Rage broke up and Tim, Brad, and I decided that we still wanted to play together, and we kept listening to [Soundgarden’s 1991 album] Badmotorfinger. 

“Chris has an amazing voice, but he has a dark, Edgar Allen Poe poetry to him, we wondered what he was really like, so we decided to go talk to him. Rick Rubin came with us and he doesn’t leave the house for anything unless it’s in a Rolls Royce inside another Rolls Royce, but he’s in my van.

“Chris lived in LA in the top of the last and loneliest mountain, it was dusk and the sunlight was going down and this mansion he lived in was creepy as hell, the gates just opened like Addams Family style, and we drove in and there is Chris, 6’2 and a half, lanky of frame, dark of countenance, and he starts slowly walking towards us and Rick freaked out and goes ‘Let’s get the fuck out of here!’

“We stayed, he was the most loving and generous guy and we were in a band for six years together. That’s my first memory of him.”

 

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