In a new interview with Pełna Kulturka, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan revealed that new Guns N’ Roses is on the road, and it will come out ‘sooner than later.’
“So I’ve got a couple of songs coming out in a couple of weeks,” the bassist said of his upcoming solo works. “And I have — one other record’s completely already arranged song-wise. We’ve got that record. And I don’t know when I’ll put it out because there’s more Guns stuff to come here sooner than later. So I don’t wanna put out a record while Guns is doing a thing. I try to stagger all of that stuff. So when that record will come out, the next record, I don’t know. I could just put three records out at one time, but that’d be too much.”
Guns N’ Roses put out a four-song EP called ‘Hard Skool’ in February 2022. It was available only in their official store and included two new songs from 2021—the title track and ‘Absurd’—plus live versions of ‘Don’t Cry’ and ‘You’re Crazy.’
Slash also mentioned that the band has been working on a new album. When the Daily Star asked why Axl Rose or his Conspirators collaborator Myles Kennedy didn’t appear on his recent solo album, ‘Orgy of the Damned,’ he explained: “Guns N’ Roses are trying to make their own record. And I’m working with them in that capacity, but this [solo album] didn’t involve anyone else. It was my own side thing, so I wasn’t dragging my own guys in.”
And apparently, there are some tracks that have been recorded during the pandemic too. “There’s a handful of those songs that we actually fixed up and did when we were in lockdown. So those have yet to be released. So those are gonna come out. They’re really good, too. So I’m excited for those. We’re just gonna put out like one or two songs, and another one or two songs. And I think that’s gonna be pretty much all of ’em. I’m not sure exactly how many we did in total.”
If it happens, the new Guns N’ Roses studio album will be the first under the Guns banner since ‘Chinese Democracy’ and the first to feature Slash, Axl Rose, and bassist Duff McKagan since 1993.