Audioslave reach one billion clicks on YouTube with “Like A Stone”.

The song “Like A Stone” from the debut album “Audioslave” released in 2002 has a billion streams on YouTube. The track illuminates the cycle of life – as well as the question of life after death. With regard to the streaming record, the fact that the band’s former singer, Chris Cornell, committed suicide in 2017 is all the more serious.

Chris Cornell on Like A Stone:

“The short version: a guy sitting in his hotel room and thinking about death and where we’re going after it and what it all means and pondering all the different possibilities of it. And then suddenly an idea comes to his mind that he likes. In keeping with the philosophy, ‘If you die and you’ve done well throughout your life, you’ll end up somewhere that’s pretty cool'” Cornell explained in an interview a few years ago.

16 years audio slave

Audioslave formed in 2001 when the instrumentalists of the band Rage Against The Machine joined forces with former Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell. After three albums, the band broke up in 2007 with the departure of singer Chris Cornell. In May 2017, Audioslave performed together again for the first time at the Anti-Inaugural Ball in Los Angeles and also played the song “Like A Stone”. Due to singer Chris Cornell’s suicide on May 17, 2017, this was the last performance.

The success of the song

With a billion clicks on YouTube, the track ranks as a contribution to the rock genre alongside songs such as Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”, AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and The Cranberries’ “Zombie”.

The last album “Out of Exile” (2005):

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