Tom Morello on the songwriting similarities between Post Malone and Chris Cornell

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Tom Morello has shared what he sees as the similarities between Post Malone and Chris Cornell when it comes to songwriting.Morello – who was the guitarist in Audioslave alongside Chris Cornell – opened up about the number of artists he has collaborated with over the years in a new interview with Eddie Trunk.When asked which artist he would like to release music with next, the Rage Against The Machine icon shared that he has actually already written a song with Post Malone, but hasn’t had the chance to share it yet.“We wrote a song together that, to my ears, sounds like what ‘Beat It’ was to Michael Jackson,” Morello told the host, revealing that they first began writing the track between five and six years ago. “It is a banger.

It is an absolutely awesome rock song.”He also said that the reason it hasn’t been released yet is because the two of them haven’t had a chance to complete it.

In recent months alone, Morello has been embarking on a huge number of festival appearances as a solo artist, while Post Malone has been collaborating with Taylor Swift, and also shared country album ‘F-1 Trillion’.Explaining what it was like to be in a writing process with Posty, Morello explained that he noticed a big similarity between the ‘Circles’ singer and ex-bandmate Chris Cornell.“When we would write songs with Chris, we sort of threw music at him – whether it was a simple chord progression like ‘I Am the Highway’ or a more complicated heavy riff – and he would just come up instantaneously with a bunch of great melodies.

We’d put those down, and then he would write words to whatever,” Morello said.“And that’s exactly how Post Malone does it. Excellent melody – hit, hooky, beautiful, terrifying melody one after another.