Guitarist Slash confirmed in an interview with Classic Rock Magazine that a new, full-length Guns N’ Roses album is on the way. In September, the band released “Hard Skool, and about a month prior to that released “Absurd,” an updated version of the previously unreleased “Silkworms.” “There’s new Guns material coming out as we speak, and we’ll probably keep putting it out until the entire record’s worth of stuff is done and then put it out solid,” Slash said. “It’s cool. I’m enjoying working on the stuff and having a good time doing it.” Earlier last year, Slash said: “We’ve been doing a lot of material that’s been sort of sitting around for a while. So that will be a whole focused endeavor unto itself.”
Guns N’ Roses will also release the “Hard Skool” EP on Feb. 25. The EP features the title track, “Absurd” and live versions of “Don’t Cry” and “You’re Crazy.” It will be released exclusively on the Guns N’ Roses official store. Slash commented on the two new tracks: “They both have a lot of history. What happened was (Guns singer) Axl (Rose) has all these songs that he recorded at some point along the way. And so (bassist) Duff (McKagan) and I went in and re-did them, basically … Like, I wrote my own kind of parts to what else is going on, and we just sort of took the drums and re-did everything else.”
“Hard Skool” was originally recorded during the “Chinese Democracy” sessions but the original version was not included on that album. The forthcoming studio album will be the first under the GNR banner since “Chinese Democracy” and the first to feature Rose, Slash and McKagan since 1993.
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