Guitarist for the mighty Guns N’ Roses – Slash himself, recently spoke with Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3. In an interview with Sylvia Alvarado, the guitarist spoke about new GN’R music. Specifically the batch of songs they just released and an eventual full-length album of all new material.
The band recently released two new songs “Atlas” and “Nothin'”. The tracks were made available in December, and marked the first new GN’R music since the 2023 singles “The General” and “Perhaps”. Both “Atlas” & “Nothin'” were produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo (Janet Jackson, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE); Costanzo also co-produced GUNS N’ ROSES’ last album, 2008’s “Chinese Democracy”, alongside Rose.
Slash was asked if releasing standalone singles as they did with these 2 most recent tracks is how GN’R plans to release new music in the future or if the band will release a new full-length album. He responded:
“I think in this instance it’s what we’re doing, because we only re-recorded those songs — like a couple of songs here, a couple of songs there. These were the last two that are left to do, and we actually did them not even back to back. ‘Nothin” was one, and ‘Atlas’ was at a different time, but they hadn’t been released yet. So, we’re releasing ’em now. And then there’s really no more of that sort of old rehash stuff to release. But I think what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna take all those songs and put them on something and release that as a package. And then the next record that we’re gonna do is gonna be all new original stuff, and that’ll be an actual album.”
“It’s a really weird time for especially rock and roll and how it works in this industry and how it works for fans. I think most die-hard rock and roll fans would like to get an album and they love vinyl, but they would want a package of songs. But some of the younger kids who are sort of raised in this new fancy kind of digital era that we’re in don’t know about albums, really, being released as a whole. So it’s a strange time. It’s harder to navigate. But to me, it’s a no-brainer. Make a record. You can do all the digital stuff in any configuration you want. But make sure that there’s an album.”
As for the recently released songs, these were tracks that already existed in the GN’R sphere. A lot of them started as demos for Axl’s “Chinese Democracy” era work. The song “Atlas” for example, originally held the working title “Atlas Shrugged.” When asked about the thought process behind releasing these songs, Slash had this to say:
“Well, we took a bunch of material that Axl had, and we all sat down and listened to it. And so we sort of picked out all the different songs that we wanted to do and what Axl wanted to do. And we just sort of took all the guitars and the bass off and redid it. And it was fun. And it was the kind of thing where we did one song at a time. We did one or maybe two in the same week. But for the most part it was spread out over a long period of time. So it was just something fun to do and go, ‘Okay, what’s gonna be my approach for it?’ So each one of ’em has been an interesting sort of little project.”
So the new tracks are sort of teasers for a full album of all new, original GUNS material that we will eventually be graced with. They’ve been talking about this for a long time though so don’t hold your breath. News as it develops.
(Sourced from Blabbermouth.net)
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