According to Billboard.com, SOUNDGARDEN drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd have joined forces with Dimitri Coats of OFF! and Alain Johannes formerly of ELEVEN, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE and THEM CROOKED VULTURES in a brand new as-yet-unnamed side project."I think we've laid down the foundation for, like, ten songs," Coats tells Billboard.com. "I'm going to be singing. Alain's definitely singing a bit. We might invite a couple of guests at some point."As to how the new band came together, Coats said that he exchanged messages with Cameron via Facebook. "I was like, 'Dude! I'm a huge fan!'" Coats recalled. "I told him, 'I consider myself to be a really excellent air drummer, and I have trouble air-drumming to some of your fills.' And he was like, 'Wow, that means a lot coming from you 'cause I'm a huge fan of yours.' We became instant friends
They invited me to Seattle and it was really incredible. There was just an instant chemistry and a really creative and open situation where everybody's passing around the guitar and throwing in ideas. I sort of felt like I was in the grunge BEATLES."Coats described the project's musical direction as "really heavy and doomy, but it's really all across the board." He added: "It's a little bit more laid-back than I would've thought, but in a good way. There's some kind of heavy, bluesy moments and then there's some really beautiful stuff, too. It's a little bit like 'Superunknown', that kind of era of SOUNDGARDEN, mixed with Alain's kind of Stevie Wonder vibe. And they call me the secret weapon; I'm a little bit rough around the edges, but I have a lot of good ideas."
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