Chris Cornell's Solo Work Doesn't Mean The End Of Audioslave

Former Soundgarden and current Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell is working on a solo LP, but dismisses speculation that his band are splitting up.

Rumours have been circulating that Audioslave's forthcoming Brendan O'Brien-produced Revelations album would be the vocalist's last with the band, since he's working on his first solo album since 1999's Euphoria Morning.

"We hear rumours that Audioslave is breaking up all the time," Cornell told MTV News, but he insists that he just ignores them.

The litigious vocalist said that Audioslave still have a wealth of unreleased material and plan on recording and issuing as much of it as possible in the future.

Cornell has written about a dozen tracks for the solo record, which he hopes to finish recording by the end of the summer. Most of the songs were completed after the recording and mixing sessions for Revelations finished in March, which left Cornell with ample free time to write tunes for his acoustic-based album.

One of the new songs, "Wide Awake," was inspired by watching television footage of the carnage caused by Hurricane Katrina last summer. Cornell also recently co-wrote "You Know My Name," the theme song to the forthcoming James Bond film, Casino Royale. He collaborated with David Arnold, who's scoring his fourth Bond film.