Soundgarden has been in the studio majority of this year working on a new album, but with the members doing so many different side projects, it’s taking them a while to finally nail everything down.
Guitarist Kim Thayil did drop a hint though on when to expect the new album and it won’t be for a while. “We’re shooting [to release it in] late 2017. We’ve already done some writing. We have some more writing to do, and then there’s the whole studio process.”
Part of Soundgarden is out on tour with Temple of the Dog currently and I think Chris Cornell is going to do another solo tour in 2017, so just be patient and we should have this new Soundgarden by this time next year.