Guns 'N Roses finally set a release date for "Chinese Democracy"

[hippie_chick]

Wow. Ehm, finally? How come this isn't exciting me any more?

By Sean Michaels - The Guardian UK

Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, their first studio album since 1991's Use Your Illusion, will be released on November 23.

Hard rock fans across the globe will be shrieking in pleasure, banging their heads and high-fiving their mates - as ecstatic with the news as the porcine transport industry would be if pigs suddenly learned how to fly.

Chinese Democracy has been almost 15 years in the making, and for much of that time it seemed like the album would never be completed. Critics sneered, the label stammered, and the band itself dissolved around Axl Rose's feet. But now – at least for the USA - a date has been set.

Various sources have confirmed the Sunday, November 23 date, which would give the album a full seven days on shelves before entering the charts on December 2. In the US, albums are usually released on Tuesdays.

For Americans, the album will be available exclusively via Best Buy stores.

"To say the making of this album has been an unbearably long and incomprehensible journey would be an understatement," Axl Rose wrote online in 2006. At the time he promised the album would be out before the end of that year. "Overcoming the endless and seemingly insanity of the obstacles faced by all involved, not withstanding the emotional challenges endured by everyone – the fans, the band, our road crew and business team – has, at many times, seemed for all like a bad dream where one wakes up only to find they are still in the nightmare."

Signs that Guns N' Roses' decade-and-a-half of strife was coming to an end appeared earlier this summer. First, the online leak of numerous near-finished songs – resulting in a blogger being arrested. Later, Guns N' Roses announced that they would premiere a song called Shackler's Revenge in the Rock Band 2 video game. More recently, a new song was used over the end credits for the film Body of Lies.

Still, fans had reason to remain sceptical. In 2006, Axl Rose celebrated his 44th birthday by playing 10 Chinese Democracy tracks at a New York nightclub. Two years later, they still hadn't been released.

"The true ongoing behind-the-scenes triumphs and casualties are much more complicated than any negative speculation that media or otherwise has managed to hit upon," Rose promised in 2006. We can only imagine what the last two years were like.

De Sauce!

Comments

[elfslut.livejournal.com]

So for the amount of time its taken them to release this...it should be a box set.