Track is available at radio & YouTube

Guns N Roses has officially released its new single “Perhaps” via Geffen Records, the band’s longtime label. The song is available at YouTube, and can be heard on rock radio stations throughout the day today (Thurs, Aug 17th) after leaking at digital jukeboxes last week.

The song was written and recorded by Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan this year, according to a press release, and is their first collective new composition and recording together in thirty years since 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident?

The band sound checked the song ahead of a show in Tel Aviv, Israel earlier this summer. It was one of the tracks from the Chinese Democracy sessions that leaked in 2019 after it was found in a storage unit owned by former A&R executive Tom Zutaut.

The track is the long-running group’s third since the three original members reunited in 2016. In August 2021, they released “Absurd” followed by “Hard Skool” a month later. All three tracks were reworkings of the songs originally written and recorded for the band’s 2008 Chinese Democracy album, which featured Rose as the sole original member of the band.

Last month, Tom Mayhue, the band’s stage manager for nearly 35 years, said, “I know the band’s gonna start working on new music. They gotta bunch of stuff recorded already. There will be new Guns N’ Roses music very soon. In fact, I think they’re trying to get a single out any day now.”

GNR is currently on their massive 2023 World Tour, headlining stadiums, festivals, and arenas throughout the summer and fall. Carrie Underwood, The Pretenders, Alice In Chains, The Warning, and Dirty Honey are supporting select dates. The 2023 World Tour will be the first time the group has toured North America since the monumental We’re F’N Back! Tour in 2021—which also steamrolled stadiums coast-to-coast including their first headliner at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, CA.

The group is also one of six headliners for Power Trip, a new festival taking place this fall in Indio, CA with AC/DC, Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Tool.

GNR’s now-legendary reunion Not In This Lifetime… Tour from 2016-2019 stands out as the “third-highest grossing tour of all time.”

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