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Rating: Delays upon delays, problems, and cyber thefts are the news that set the context and backdrop for this album.
Scheduled for the day of my 15th birthday, with all my friends ready to gift it to me, Axl further postponed its release. "Chinese Democracy," the 5th studio album from the Los Angeles formation, made its debut on our shelves on November 21st of this year.
A totally different lineup from the one that, back in the distant 1993, recorded the last Guns CD, "The Spaghetti Incident," worked on the band's latest creation.
Received in a mixed manner by fans, some of whom associate the album with the word masterpiece, while others call it an anal creation crapped just for purely commercial purposes, the album features hard rock sounds influenced by industrial attitudes derived from the Nine Inch Nails' guitarist, present in the group's lineup for this album, and a very original solo style, thanks to Buckethead's contribution on several tracks.
Axl doesn't lose his powerful and virile voice, despite the many years since the singer's last studio effort, and his creativity on the piano, which delights us on several of the album's tracks.
Among the pieces that struck me the most, I highlight Slacker's revenge (the solo by Buckethead is genius, creating ingenious motifs by playing with the whammy bar), Sorry (a very delicate piece where Axl creates soft and dreamy atmospheres with his voice over Ron Thal's slow guitar notes, while expressing animosity towards one of his many past partners), if the world (the ethnic shades obtained by accompanying Axl's filtered voice with a classical guitar skillfully strummed by Ron Thal are stunning), Madagascar (besides the music, the beautiful lyrics written by Axl), and I.R.S, in full Guns and Roses style, which more than ever in this track allows them to seem like those rebellious kids who devastated Los Angeles in the eighties...
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By CoccolutoStyle
Trick!!!!!
Do you want to understand that it will never come out???
By KingJudas
It was supposed to come out a good ten years ago but still nothing, it will probably be released this winter and finally we will be able to listen to the new songs from the best glam metal band of the last 25-30 years.
THE GUNS ARE BACK!
By Blackened
"Chinese Democracy is a great album with impeccable mixing and truly excellent songs chosen in the most appropriate order."
"'Sorry' is one of the best on the album, entering my personal Top Three of this Chinese Democracy!"
By MichaelRose86
"The entire CD is the result of Axl’s grace in terms of composition and silences the many skeptics about the condition of his vocal cords."
"The advice I can give to all those who will listen to the album is to have no prejudices, don’t think of the old 'Guns' but instead focus on this crazy, ambitious, discussed project by Axl Rose."
By Anatas
This album stands to Guns N' Roses as the pope stands to Bin Laden.
More simply: this album is fucking awful.
