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Guns N’ Roses Gets Its Appetite Back: Classic Album Set for Re-release.

21/5/2018

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​Guns N’ Roses have announced the release of an expanded version of 1987’s Appetite for Destruction, the band’s blockbuster debut album. The new edition includes in-progress demos and unreleased tracks. Appetite, which is still the best-selling debut album ever, is re-released as the band embarks on its third year of a reunion tour, after years of seeming like it was never going to happen. News of the reissue came after a billboard of the original album artwork was discovered in Camden, North London.
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"Guns N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction" (CC BY 2.0) by MrBlueGenes.
​Locked N' Loaded
The album, which will be called Locked N’ Loaded, will available to buy on June 29, will be sold in multiple formats, including a box set featuring four-CDs, a Blu-ray Disc, seven 7-inch records, seven 12-inch records, and a 90-page souvenir books with photos from frontman, Axl Rose. There will be 73 tracks, in total, including 49 that were previously unheard.

The collection’s highlights include both live and recorded versions of Shadow of Your Love. The song was one of the band’s first, although it didn’t feature on the original Appetite. The re-release further includes two incomplete recordings (New Work Tune and The Plague), two early versions of November Rain, and such covers as Heartbreak Hotel. The 9-minute November Rain, eventually released in 1992, is still the longest-ever song to reach the US top ten singles chart.

Loyal Fans
The band may have been away for a while before it began its seemingly endless reunion, but G N’ R were never too far from the minds of its hardcore fans. Its CDs and DVDs aside, there’s always been merchandise and souvenirs available for fans to enjoy. The band have also featured in a number of games, whether it’s pinball, featuring in Guitar Hero, or the Guns N’ Roses slot game. The latter, available on the Mr Green app, offers a welcome bonus and 200 free spins. That should complement the music from the re-release of Appetite, which has always managed to gets fans’ heads spinning.

The new version is a remaster of the original, opening with Welcome to the Jungle, before taking us on a trip down memory lane with such classics as Sweet Child O’ Mine and Paradise City.

Reunited... and it feels so good
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"Guns n´Roses Palacio de los Deportes 30" (CC BY 2.0) by Edvill
​The band was signed in 1986 by Geffen Records as it made waves in the LA club scene. Guns N’ Roses combined Slash’s intricate guitar with Rose’s intense and sweeping vocal texture. The two went their separate ways in Argentina in 1993, however after the end of a world tour. After years of false starts and rumours, they made up in 2016 when they appeared at California’s Coachella music festival.
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The tour has repeatedly been extended. European shows are scheduled through July and the band dropped a hint in the box-set that it will extend even further. The band will also be playing the Download Festival in June. The original line-up, however, has yet to fully reform, as key songwriter and rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin has refused to take part in the tour after a dispute over compensation.
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