On 22 April 2016, the band performed a live concert with an orchestra conducted by Simon Dobson at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
and embarked on a second U.S. tour in April and May 2016.
On 25 March, the band played a bonus show, a free open-air concert in Havana , Cuba, which was attended by an estimated 500,000 concert-goers.
A music video for the single, ” Follow You “, was released on 16 March 2016.
On February 7, 2016, the band opened for Metallica at a Super Bowl eve concert at AT&T Park .
The Stones embarked on their Latin American tour in February 2016.
In February 2016, the band released a joint single with the Sireen choir from Estonia called “The Universe Explodes into a Billion Photons of Pure White Light” which was recorded at their second session for Marc Riley on his 6 Music show.
On January 19, 2016, The Pulse Of Radio announced that Soundgarden had returned to the studio to continue working on their new album.
As of 2016, the group are on hiatus, with Leary saying: “I just don’t want to play live anymore. It’s not fun, I don’t like touring. That hour on stage is a whole lot of fun, but the other 23 hours off stage just fucking suck.”
They performed at the Day for Night music festival in Houston, Texas, which ran December 17–18, 2016.