You’ve got been listening to it for some time and we have been saying it for some time, however this time, it truly sounds prefer it could possibly be true. Weapons N’ Roses stage technician, Tom Mayhue, has confirmed that the band has a brand new single on the best way, and that they have been engaged on a brand new album.

Mayhue has been working with Weapons since 1988. They’re at the moment on tour in Europe, and through their current cease in Paris (July 13), the tech spoke in entrance of a bunch of individuals about his time working with the band and a few of their upcoming plans. Video clips from the gathering had been uploaded on Fb by Valérie Coclin.

“So I have been with the band eternally, we’re simply on the point of end up this portion of our Weapons N’ Roses European tour,” Mayhue stated, noting that the North American leg of the tour wraps up in mid-October. “And I do know that the band’s gonna begin engaged on new music, they have a bunch of stuff recorded already. So there might be new Weapons N’ Roses music very quickly. Actually, I believe they’re making an attempt to get a single out any day now, so it’s possible you’ll hear one thing very, very quickly.”

Axl Rose and Slash had been not too long ago photographed at City Sound Studios in Norway, the place they’d been listening to “new mixes.” The studio has since deleted the photograph, however you’ll be able to nonetheless see it right here.

It is unclear what mixes the duo had been trying out. Ever because the band launched “Absurd” and “Onerous Skool” in late 2021, Slash has been saying that they plan to launch just a few extra reworked Chinese language Democracy outtakes. However, final October, the guitarist additionally stated that the band could be free “to have the ability to go in and work on a brand new document” after their summer time tour is over — which might match up with Mayhue’s timeline.

So, will this upcoming new single be one other Chinese language Democracy outtake, or will it’s one thing totally new? We aren’t certain which is the case, however we do know that Mayhue stated the brand new materials they have been engaged on sounds extra like Urge for food for Destruction.

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“It is much more, sort of Urge for food-oriented. That they had numerous songs, when the band went in initially and recored Urge for food for Destruction, I believe they recorded like 29 songs. So there is a bunch of different music that was left over that did not make the primary document,” he added.

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Weapons’ European tour wraps up in Greece on July 22, then their North American tour begins in early August. See the complete schedule at this location.