GUNS N’ ROSES’ longtime production manager has confirmed that a new single from the band is coming soon
The band’s production manager, Tom Mayhue discussed the band’s future plans while speaking to the media ahead of GUNS N’ ROSES‘ July 13 concert in Paris, France. Mayhue said that the group will finish the North American leg of their tour in mid-October, and added: “And I know that the band’s gonna start working on new music. They’ve got a bunch of stuff recorded already. So there will be new GUNS N’ ROSES music very soon. In fact, I think they’re trying to get a single out any day now, so you may hear something very, very soon.”
Discussing what the new GUNS N’ ROSES material sounds like, Mayhue said: “It sounds great. It’s a lot more kind of ‘Appetite [For Destruction]’-orientated. They had a lot of songs. When the band went in originally and recorded ‘Appetite For Destruction’, I think they recorded, like, 29 songs. So there’s a bunch of other music that was left over that didn’t make the first record. I think there’s only 11 songs on the first record.”
Just last month, Oslo’s Urban Sound Studios shared a pic on social media of Axl Rose and GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash in the facility, apparently taken the day after the band’s performance at the Tons Of Rock festival in Norway’s capital city.
On June 22, the picture was posted on the Urban Sound Studios Instagram account along with the caption: “We got to hang out with these 2 rock legends in the studio today. Really cool guys! (The two in the middle…). The band wanted a nice studio with a variety of speakers and headphones to listen to new mixes before they head for Glastonbury. It sounds awesome!”
GUNS N’ ROSES unveiled their most recent offering, a four-song EP titled “Hard Skool,” in February 2022. Exclusively available through the band’s official store, the EP featured two new tracks released by GUNS N’ ROSES in 2021: the title track “Hard Skool” and “Absurd” (stylized as “ABSUЯD“). Additionally, the EP included live versions of the beloved classics “Don’t Cry” and “You’re Crazy“.
In September 2021, the band released “Hard Skool“, following their performance and subsequent official release of “Absurd“. The latter was a reimagined version of GUNS N’ ROSES‘ previously unreleased track titled “Silkworms“.
Written by Axl Rose and co-produced by Rose and Caram Costanzo, “Hard Skool“, which had the working title “Jackie Chan“, was originally recorded during GN’R‘s “Chinese Democracy” era but was eventually omitted from that album. Short clips of the song were later posted online and a full version was leaked in August 2019.
