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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 154 Ratings

  • Summary: After frontman Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine in 2000, the remaining members of that Los Angeles band enlisted former Soundgarden leader Chris Cornell, and together they formed Audioslave. This is their debut release.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    The result isn't a faux Rage album; rather, it's the true follow-up to Soundgarden's ''Superunknown'' that neither that band nor a solo Cornell ever managed.
  2. Playlouder
    90
    One of the most important rock bands ever meets one of the best, and guess what, they've only gone and knocked out a bonafide masterpiece. It's 1993 all over again, but it's also 1970 and 2002 and beyond, because an album this classic transcends any pigeonholing.
  3. Launch.com
    80
    Audioslave is the best of both bands.
  4. Rolling Stone
    60
    In their past lives, the members of this band were enraged. Now, fierce as they might sound, Audioslave just seem sorta engorged.
  5. Blender
    60
    This is feel-good stuff, the sound of a rejuvenating artistic vacation. [#12, p.136]
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  6. Alternative Press
    50
    Bad news for fans of either party who'd expected the union to generate something revolutionary. [Dec 2002, p.85]
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  7. Pitchfork
    17
    At its worst, this project is just plain retarded.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 71 out of 85
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 85
  3. Negative: 6 out of 85
  1. aliceinwonderla
    Mar 26, 2017
    10
    This album is GREAT, awesome lyrics and sounds. Can't understand why so many critics disliked it. Whatever!

    Best tracks: Exploder, Shadow    This album is GREAT, awesome lyrics and sounds. Can't understand why so many critics disliked it. Whatever!

    Best tracks: Exploder, Shadow on the Sun, I Am the Highway, What You Are, Like A Stone, Getaway Car, The Last Remaining Light.    … Expand
  2. Jesse
    Jul 19, 2004
    10
    Cornell has the best voice in rock, and Tom Morrello does things with the guitar others can only dream about
  4. TheZ
    Dec 1, 2002
    10
    Chris Cornell is the best rock singer in the business right now, and has been ever since Soundgarden. When he fronts a band as good as Chris Cornell is the best rock singer in the business right now, and has been ever since Soundgarden. When he fronts a band as good as Rage's, you know that it has to be a masterpiece.… Expand
  5. RobJ
    Apr 17, 2006
    10
    An amazing album! Songs like Cochise and Show Me How To Live just blew my mind away!
  6. Aj
    May 25, 2005
    9
    If you don't like hard rock - then you won't like this. However, I LOVE hard rock and this is on3e of my favorite albums.
  7. Watermelon789
    Aug 23, 2011
    8
    With Chris and Zack as contributors make a nice combination of mixed tastes, while I don't feel the album as a groundbreaking phenomenon, itWith Chris and Zack as contributors make a nice combination of mixed tastes, while I don't feel the album as a groundbreaking phenomenon, it is one of the best well made and appealing sound list.… Expand
  8. sds
    Feb 8, 2003
    0
    nah

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