Watch how Guns N’ Roses used drones to celebrate their 2026 tour

In honor of the announcement of the band’s 2026 world tour, Guns N’ Roses lighted up the Los Angeles skyline on Monday night with a breathtaking 500-drone performance over Hollywood Forever Cemetery, created in collaboration with Sky Elements Drone Shows. Blabbermouth.net reports that custom-programmed GN’R iconography, symbols, and references spanning the band’s illustrious career were featured in the 12-minute display, which culminated in a moment that marked their return to the international stage, including a historic homecoming at the Rose Bowl on September 5, 2026, their first performance there in more than 30 years.

Sky Elements was honored to be a part of the Guns N’ Roses world tour announcement. With 500 drones flying over the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, it was an iconic moment, and symbolic to the band’s return to the world stage. – Kyle Pivnick, vice president of Sky Elements Drone Shows

In March and April of 2026, Guns N’ Roses will begin their tour in Mexico and Brazil before making two appearances in the United States. After visiting Europe in June, they will play 18 more performances in North America through September. The North American performances will begin in Raleigh on July 23 and include stops in Atlanta, Toronto, St. Louis, and Las Vegas. The band will perform at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, for the first time in almost 30 years. The tour announcement coincided with Guns N’ Roses’s December 2 release of “Nothin’” and “Atlas” via Geffen. The songs are the band’s first new releases since 2023.

The iconic 1987 diamond-selling masterpiece “Appetite For Destruction” by Guns N’ Roses is notable for being “the best-selling U.S. debut album ever” and “the 11th best-selling U.S. album of all time.” The almost seven-times-platinum “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II” from Guns N’ Roses rocked the world after its release, taking the top two places on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart. Their discography also includes “GN’R Lies” (five times platinum), “The Spaghetti Incident?” (platinum), “Greatest Hits” (five times platinum), and “Chinese Democracy” (more than six million globally), with a total of 100 million units sold to date. With an average of 27 million monthly Spotify listeners, they are among the most streamed rock bands globally.