Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has suggested that the band may record a new album.

Thayil said he couldn’t confirm anything but that it was “very likely” the Chris Cornell-fronted grunge group would work on new tracks.

Soundgarden played their first gig in twelve years in their original line-up in April.

"I'm not confirming anything,” Thayil told Toronto radio station CFNY-FM, “but it's impossible for us to get in a room and not come up with ideas.

"It's very likely in the future, perhaps sooner than later, we'll get together and de-emphasise the rehearsing part and emphasise the jamming part."

Soundgarden's last studio album ’Down On The Upside’ was released in 1996. The band released the retropsecitve ‘Telephantasm' in September.

(by Jason Gregory)