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Guns N’ Roses Just Released the First New Music With Slash Since 1993 [Listen]
Slash rejoining Guns N’ Roses back in 2016 was one of the biggest things to happen in the music world. All of the children who grew up listening to “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, “November Rain”, “You Could Be Mine”, along with others, could finally see one of their favorite bands in its original form live. However, new music has never been set in stone. And after nearly six years, it started the feel like a pipe dream…until now.
Guns N’ Roses just surprise-released a “new” song, “Absurd”, a reworking of a track from the Chinese Democracy era that was studio-recorded with Slash. While the track itself dates back to 2001 (it was originally written by Dizzy Reed and Chris Pittman, and performed as “Silkworms”), it’s time to get hyped.
Is this a signal that Guns N’ Roses has a fully recorded new album on the horizon? The holidays are just around the corner and if I remember correctly, Chinese Democracy was a surprise release just one week before Black Friday in 2008.
Here’s “Absurd” with an awesome visual that gives Medussa the Exorcist treatment.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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