Guns N’ Roses have a very democratic system when it comes to recording – according to Slash
Author Benedetta Baldin - 12.2.2026
Slash was asked if a new Guns N’ Roses album will be released, in which he, bassist Duff McKagan, and singer Axl Rose would go into a studio and compose a whole new album, in a recent interview with Pablo of the Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station 93X, as per Blabbermouth. The guitarist responded like this.
Yeah, that’s the thing. We haven’t spent the time sort of compiling everything and narrowing it down or any of that yet. And so that’s probably what — that’s gonna be a lot of work. That’s gonna be the hardest part, is trying to figure out what’s what. And I think we’re starting to get to that point where we’re gonna actually do that.
Guns records are something that just happen, and when it’s happening, it happens really fast. But getting to that point of where we all sit down and focus on ‘this is what we’re doing ‘has always been the hardest part. It just happens when it happens. But there’s a lot of material to work with when it does.
Slash gave this response when asked if everyone had a say in the Guns N’ Roses recording process.
Yeah, it’s always been a democracy like that. It’s always been really, really collaborative — from every song, all the way back to the very, very beginning, before ‘Appetite [For Destruction]’. Everything has always been very collaborative, which is really cool because it gives every song — I don’t know what the right word for it is, but you have a lot of interesting things going on in a song from different people in the band that come up with it.
