Last week, during an October 23 appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash gave an update on his next album with Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators!
Slash said, “It’s done. We still have to mix it. I’m gonna mix it in January. I think it’s in January, somewhere in there when I get back, and mix it and finish it up. But it doesn’t come out till 2027. But then we’re gonna do a full-blown tour. And that’s the thing, is I had to find a window where I could do a full-scale tour with the Conspirators. And I didn’t wanna release it until I was able to do that, and 2027 is the real window for it. So that’s when the record comes out.”
As for how the record turned out, Slash said, “It’s really cool, the record’s badass. All things considered, I don’t like to hype a record up, but I’m excited about it.”
Slash had previously said in August 2025 that the recording sessions were completed, “Recording for #SMKC record number 5 is done today. Album title to be confirmed. This has been a super cool session all around, and we all agree it’s one of, if not the best one yet. Unfortunately you’ll have to wait till 2027 to weigh in, too much going on next year to put it out. But it will be worth the wait. Full-blown world tour to follow!”
Drummer Brent Fitz told Different Stages Radio, “Slash has the greatest work ethic of any musician I’ve ever worked with. So, we got busy. We toured together in 2024, and then we were out doing other things, and then Slash did a blues record and tour. And then, as soon as that was done, we got right into the studio in L.A. He has an amazing working studio. We can be busy there in L.A. We did that for a month, and then we went out to Florida and recorded most of all the bed tracks, the music parts of it.”
On a potential title, Fitz added, “Nothing. No, no. It’s always gonna be a Myles thing, or Slash, just song titles and lyric ideas. I will say that what’s fun is when we do write these songs, and this will be our fifth record together, but we always have comedic working titles. Todd and Slash are good for coming up with things that won’t be the final title, because obviously with lyrics with Myles, it’ll be something completely different. But we usually just give something a title so we can go, ‘Hey, let’s work on that song.’ ‘What song?’ ‘Oh, the song in E.’ Over time we’ve had these goofy titles, and sometimes they stick. To this day, some of our songs, I go, ‘Oh, it’s called Wicked Stone.’ And I’m like, ‘But it used to be something completely ridiculous.’ When I look at our setlist live, I go, ‘Oh, that’s the Elephant Disorder song.’ It’s just funny how we work.”
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators entered the studio in November 2024 to begin recording their fifth album.
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