Weapons N’ Roses‘ longtime manufacturing supervisor Tom Mayhue has confirmed {that a} new single by the band is about to drop “any day now”.
Mayhue mentioned the band’s plans for brand new music forward of the band’s present in Paris (July 13), and said that Axl Rose and co have already completed recording some new materials.
He additionally famous that the band will probably hit the studio to write down much more later this 12 months – probably in the midst of October as soon as they’ve wrapped up the ultimate reveals of their world tour.
“I do know that the band’s gonna begin engaged on new music. They’ve bought a bunch of stuff recorded already. So there will probably be new Weapons N’ Roses music very quickly,” he stated (through Blabbermouth).
“Actually, I believe they’re making an attempt to get a single out any day now, so you might hear one thing very, very quickly.”
Mayhue additionally shed some perception into the potential sound of the forthcoming music, and teased that the brand new materials is just like that seen of their hit debut album, 1987’s ‘Urge for food For Destruction’.
“It sounds nice. It’s much more form of ‘Urge for food’-orientated,” he defined. “That they had a number of songs. When the band went in initially and recorded ‘Urge for food For Destruction’, I believe they recorded, like, 29 songs. So there’s a bunch of different music that was left over that didn’t make the primary report. I believe there’s solely 11 songs on the primary report.”
That is removed from the primary time that the rock veterans have been purported to be engaged on new music since 2022’s four-track EP ‘Laborious Skool’ arrived.
Final October, guitarist Slash confirmed that whereas the members are excited to write down new materials, they need to launch some leftover recordings first. “I wanna go in and lower an entire model new report sooner or later, most likely before later,” he stated throughout an look on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. “However… we now have stuff that we’ve nonetheless bought to return out.”
Moreover, earlier this 12 months, City Sound Studios shared a now-removed picture of the guitarist and frontman on its Instagram, and confirmed that they wished to make use of the house to take heed to “new mixes earlier than they head for Glastonbury”.
Though additional particulars on the brand new G’N’R tracks stay imprecise, Slash has been confirmed as that includes on a brand new observe within the Barbie soundtrack. Titled ‘I’m Simply Ken’, the rock legend will play guitar on the tune, which is sung by the movie’s main man Ryan Gosling.
Weapons N’ Roses additionally not too long ago headlined the Saturday evening at this 12 months’s Glastonbury, and shocked followers by arriving to their set on time.
In a three-star assessment of their set, NME hailed the set as “one in every of their strongest” lately, however sadly obtained an underwhelming response from the gang.
“To any G’N’R fan, the Glasto set undoubtedly marks one of many strongest units that the rock veterans have given lately,” it started. “Sadly, that is considerably misplaced on the Glastonbury crowd, as Weapons N’ Roses’ sultry, whiskey-chugging, in-your-face model of rock felt misplaced when delivered on the hippie nucleus of the world.”