October 29 [14:00 EDT] -- Soundgarden may be gone but they won't be forgotten. At least, not for another couple of years. In addition to the greatest hits package, "A-Sides," due out November 4, the band may be issuing another album late in 1998, a live effort this time.

The Seattle band announced they were breaking up last April, 11 months after the release of their last studio album, "Down On The Upside," and two months after taking a break from a grueling tour that reportedly took its toll. The final dates were fraught with in-fighting, ill will and ill health. But at least eight of those concerts were also professionally taped on a mobile studio, and now word comes from Seattle insiders that the material is now being sorted with a live album in mind.

It's unclear whether the tapes are being pegged to comprise the entire record or whether other performances are also being considered. Sources say that while a number of the concerts on the last leg of the tour were

marred by singer Chris Cornell's nagging cold that caused the cancellation of the band's homecoming show last December, enough material was recorded to ensure good results.

A spokesperson for the soon-to-be defunct Susan Silver Management (Silver, who is also Cornell's wife, is retiring from that business) acknowledged in a prior interview that the shows had been recorded, but said that no decision had been made at that time as to the future of the tracks. No one at Silver's office was immediately available for comment at press time. An A&M Records representative said she was not aware of the project.