Metal Anarchy

Guns N’ Roses’ latest singles, including the recently released “Atlas” and “Nothin’,” have consisted of re-recorded tracks from the archives. However, Slash has since confirmed that the band’s next album will feature “all new original stuff.”

Slash told KOMP 92.3’s Sylvia Alvarado the following about the aforementioned singles:

“It’s good to have a couple of songs that we’re promoting and then a tour that’s really a long tour. It’s gonna go from the end of March until the end of December. And it’s exciting, ’cause we’re coming back to the U.S., which is the first time we’ve been in the U.S. in a while.”

He continued when asked if the band plan to focus on standalone singles:

“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. Yeah.”

He then circled back to the recycled material:

“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.”

He also added the following when asked about the band’s approach to “Atlas” and “Nothin’”:

“‘Atlas’ has some really cool chord changes and time signatures, so that was interesting in itself. And then coming up with the right voicings for that. With ‘Nothin”, it was a very spontaneous, very sort of simple, bare-bones approach. Not much thought went into it at all. It was just improvising.”

He also expressed a desire to perform them live:

“Well, we were gonna [play] ’em [live] both — I guess it was a couple of years ago, or a little over a year ago. And we were gonna do ’em both, and we actually rehearsed them and they sound great live and it was really fun. But then we decided that we didn’t know when we were gonna release these songs and we didn’t end up releasing them then. So we had to take them out of the set and wait. So we’re excited to go to play ’em now finally the songs are released.”

[via Blabbermouth]