Day 26: Audioslave - Out Of Exile

Audioslave's second album, Out Of Exile has a great title and cover art. But after that things get a little rote.

The passion in the playing and songwriting seem a little lacking here, with the excitement of the two afore-mentioned bands being spent on the first album.

There are some good moments though..."Your Time Has Come" is a great blast of an opener and the title track is pretty good. But after that it sounds a lot like what worked on the first album,. "Be Yourself" comes off as a retread of "Like A Stone" from the first album, and titles like "Heaven's Dead" and "#1 Zero" seem like bad attempts at 90's high school poetry.

Christ Cornell surely had better lyrics in his head than came out on the album.

Not all songs are this paper-thin, but the trajectory of Audioslave seemed set at this point.

2 stars