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Slash has confirmed that Guns N’ Roses are working on a new album. The musician explained that the band had plenty of material, a publication date However, it doesn’t exist yet.
“There’s so much material out there now – it’s just a matter of discipline to sit down and fucking dive in,” Slash told Guitar World. “But in my experience with Guns, you can never plan ahead. You can’t just decide, ‘We’re going to take this time and do this.’ Every time we’ve tried this, it’s failed.”
The guitarist also gave insight into the band’s creative process: “It just happens spontaneously, triggered by some kind of inspiration that sets it in motion. And before you know it, it’s working.”
Insights into the creative process
“So – it’s coming. I know it’s coming because everyone’s thinking about it,” he added. “It will just happen when it happens.”
A spokesperson for Slash and Guns N’ Roses did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last year, in a conversation with the “Daily Star” (via “Music News”) about his solo album “Orgy Of The Damned”, Slash explained why neither bandmate Axl Rose nor Conspirators frontman Myles Kennedy was featured on it: “It was my own side project, so I didn’t want to drag my boys into it.” At the same time, he revealed that Guns N’ Roses was working on a new album: “Guns N’ Roses are trying to make their own record and I’m working with them on that. But this project had nothing to do with that.”
Bandmates about new music
Bassist Duff McKagan has also hinted at new music in the past. In 2019, he said on “Trunk Nation” that the band was working on a new album following their successful “Not in This Lifetime” reunion tour, which saw Slash and McKagan return after nearly two decades.
“Oh, it’s real – but the exciting and cool thing about Guns N’ Roses is that we don’t talk about it much. What happens next just happens,” McKagan explained at the time.
The year before, guitarist Richard Fortus told a St. Louis newspaper that a new Guns N’ Roses album “could come sooner than you think.”
Outlook for fans
As fans continue to wait for a follow-up to 2008’s “Chinese Democracy” – and the first album with McKagan and Slash since “The Spaghetti Incident?” from 1993 – wait, it seems clear: you have to be patient a little longer.