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I like them both - sounds like they need cleaning up to varying degrees beyond my comprehension but pretty happy with both. Some very cool moments from Axl. Or AIxl on the off-chance they turn out to be fake..

On Monsters - don't think this is fake at all. Axl has always sounded AI-y in the Chinese era. Some very cool bits.

Haven't got a chance to listen yet but I really hope these are real. It is no less than the band deserves.

Are the band and management fair game for personal attacks? Just checking

Think there's still a decent chance we will hear it in the next 24 hours via a recording or a rip of the vinyl. It's bound to be in someone's hands at this stage through an early shipping or whatever. To echo a point made earlier, it really wouldn't take much for management to give a nudge to a Mod on here, or even Jarmo, to give some guidance.

Had a look through your posts , you've done the worst job of using a 'friend in the industry' to glean any useful information whatsover, well done

Those tracks are different though. They're live versions of already released songs. They are much more in line with what physical-only releases might look like. Not an unreleased song that's only the fourth full song release since 2016.

Does anyone else agree they might be rushing out The General and Monsters?

There's a fair chance the shipping issue is down to actual manufacturing problems rather than the release date. Been a consistent problem for the band and other artists

The General and Monsters hadda do it your way hadda be a fool EDIT: How tf has this not leaked yet

Apparently the video for The General features a longer ending which has the video responses from fan questions that were submitted to the band in 2009

They need to get this song out before someone on here blows their brains out

This thread is just a constant circle of the same theories. Roll on the release so we can debate the song itself.. (which is definitely State of Grace reworked )

Looking forward to hearing it but not expecting anything different from the general methodology of the most recent GN'R tunes.. limited chorus, old vocals that are doubled up in the chorus, etc. Expecting a song that we've not heard but before but that feels familiar

Not that it matters with this band but I don't think it makes more sense from a marketing POV. For the sake of a few thousand Vinyl shipped keeping it exclusive to that would be a bizarre move. Fully expecting a proper launch - but then again, who knows with this band.

Prediction: A chorus with too many vocal layers

Talking nonsense for the sake of it

There's been more shite talked here about a song we know for a fact is coming vs speculation on songs we don't know are coming which is saying a lot

Was there many songs with vocals that didn't see the light of day (you could say, no pun intended with that one!) Was CD2 ready to come out with New Guns

Surprised this hasn’t leaked yet.. bound to be some of the vinyls floating around somewhere soon

Reality is nobody really cares about new GN'R tunes bar a small percentage of people. There was a chance they cared more in the mid 2000s but the ship has long, long sailed. I'm one of the small percentage, though

It is a bizarre first.. you have to wonder how they fucked the Chinese songs up so much if they've managed to keep these new versions of old songs and this never-before-heard song from leaking.

It's f'n here, Gunners! The legendary track from the Chinese Democracy sessions that's the first song written by Axl, Slash and Duff in two decades. Let's f'n go!

It's f'n here, gunners!

above this fn' line is absolutely brilliant