Soundgarden's surviving members are mixing a final studio album featuring Chris Cornell's vocals, drummer Matt Cameron has confirmed.

Cameron shared the news on Dean Delray's Let There Be Talk podcast, as Billboard reported on 30 July 2026. The record is an eight-track LP, with all eight songs carrying writing credits for Cornell. Mixer Joe Barresi, a longtime collaborator in the studio, is handling the mix.

The surviving band members are Cameron on drums, Kim Thayil on guitar and Ben Shepherd on bass. Cornell died by suicide on 17 May 2017, at age 52, in a Detroit hotel room after Soundgarden performed at the city's Fox Theatre.

The material dates back to roughly 2013, when Cameron began sending instrumental demos to Cornell. Cornell would rearrange the parts and record vocals over them. By 2015 and 2016, the four members were gathering in studios to prepare what would have been a follow-up album before their 2017 tour. Those sessions were produced by Terry Date, who helmed Soundgarden's 1989 album Louder Than Love and 1991's Badmotorfinger. A song titled "The Road Less Traveled," co-written by Cornell and Cameron, is among the material slated for the record, as Billboard reported in May 2025.

Thayil has described the process of completing the album as "very untraditional" and likened it to a "forensic" deep-dive, according to Billboard. Cameron told the podcast that three or four of the tracks are "really, really strong songs," and that the band is "taking it one step at a time."

There is no release date yet. Cameron told Kerrang!, as reported on 29 July 2026, that the final songs are "not too far off done." Forbes and Consequence both confirmed the mixing stage independently the same day.

The path to this point was not straightforward. Soundgarden and Cornell's estate, represented by his widow Vicky Cornell, were locked in litigation for more than four years over the rights to unreleased Cornell recordings. That dispute ended in April 2023 with what both parties described as an "amicable out of court" settlement, as Billboard reported at the time. The settlement cleared the way for the band to work with the recordings.

For fans, this means the last chapter of one of the defining bands of the Seattle rock scene is being written — not from leftover scraps, but from sessions Cornell himself sang on and helped shape before his death.