Guns N' Roses - Release First Song In 13 Years
Although Guns N' Roses released their most recent album Chinese Democracy back in 2008, the iconic L.A. band just put out a brand new song called "Absurd", which marked the first to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan since The Spaghetti Incident? in 1993. "Absurd" is actually a reworked version of "Silkworms", a track that was originally written during the Chinese Democracy sessions and was first performed live back in 2001 under the latter name.
The announcement of the "Absurd" single, which also features former Guns N' Roses drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, comes just a few days after the band played it live for the first time since 2001 at a show in Boston last Tuesday (August 3rd), where frontman Axl Rose introduced the song to the crowd and said: "Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is really kind of absurd to try this. Wasn't that funny? And they don't even know the joke yet. Okay, this is called 'Absurd'."
The announcement of the "Absurd" single, which also features former Guns N' Roses drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, comes just a few days after the band played it live for the first time since 2001 at a show in Boston last Tuesday (August 3rd), where frontman Axl Rose introduced the song to the crowd and said: "Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is really kind of absurd to try this. Wasn't that funny? And they don't even know the joke yet. Okay, this is called 'Absurd'."
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537  |
The instrumentation and the performance has the right vibe to it. But I'd have liked to hear Axl sing, not wail behind distortion.
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| Duck Dodgers Posts: 132  |
Amazing! This is the new "You could be mine"! No one sings like Axl! What a brilliant guitar work from Slash! ...certainly not!
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| Callisto Posts: 352  |
Written by qlacs on 08.08.2021 at 12:34 Yep I agree, the band is fine, but the vocals seems like rage against the machine rip-off. I think this is just some half assed track to release something quick....
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| Tuonelan Posts: 157  |
Axl's your firestarter/twisted firestarter 
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| TheDarkWizard Posts: 59  |
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| Lord Slothrop Posts: 399  |
Like everyone else has said, I like the music but the vocals are terrible, especially coming from him.
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| nikarg Staff Posts: 7046  |
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| JoHn Doe Posts: 4884  |
Written by nikarg on 09.08.2021 at 11:44  it's funny because it's true.
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| Nejde CommunityManager Moderator Posts: 1473  |
Why rework and rename an old song from Chinese Democracy? Only decent song on that album is Shackler's Revenge. This is just lazy and feels like a cash grab attempt  But I guess they don't have it in them anymore, at least when it comes to Axl.
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| qlacs "The Quaker" Posts: 1537 |
To be fair, they say they wrote this probably around 2001 and it has tons of industrial elements which makes sense cause that time was the late peak of that genre. It's GnR if they tried trendhopping. I don't hate this, can even listen without being cringed out, but mainly cause of the playing and swing-feel Slash and Duff put in there.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by s(AINT) on 09.08.2021 at 14:25 You try telling Axl "no."
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Karlabos Meat and Potatos Posts: 5658  |
Nice Marilyn Manson song
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| AnGina-- Dark Phoenix Posts: 3555  |
Not much of a fan, TBH. I mean, honestly.... I want GnR to go on the same path as The Sisters Of Mercy, just live of good old, smashing tracks we all came to love 25+ years back and we still love them today. The end. No need for new material. I mean yea, the song is agressive, it has the energy, the guitars are killing it, but the collision between the guitars, rhythm section and vocals is just plain off. The slowed-down tempo intermezzo is just weird, I was expecting some sort of dramatic change. And as for lyrics,.... meh.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61010  |
If I would hear this on radio I would ask my self what band is it. I read a news, and well I know its GnR but really, biggest joke I have hear from them. I dont like this one, new album , well ...better not, nice Guns n Jokes or Jokes n Guns
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 4744  |
I've never been a fan of GNR tbh, so I wasn't expecting to like this song, but never did I expect it to be this bad! The vocals are the worst I've heard in a very long time, I actually found them painful to listen to. The best thing about this, as usual is the guitar work from Slash, but even that is nothing special for such a high profile guitarest. I know it's their first song in 13 years, but Imo it's still bad.
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