Slash, yes from Guns N’ roses, has announced his fourth album with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators is just simply called Four and is due out on February 11, 2022. The new song is called “The River is Rising” and you can see the video below. Here’s what he had to say about the song:
“There’s two or three songs on the record that were written during the pandemic; everything else was written before. ‘The River is Rising’ was one of the last songs I wrote before we started pre-production, and because it was so fresh and has a certain groove and energy to it, it was the first thing we really attacked. It’s the newest song on the record, and as for the double-time part, that was something that I came up with and tagged onto the end of the arrangement. Then when we were over at RCA, Dave Cobb suggested we do it right after the breakdown. So, we went straight into the fast part, and I just started doing the guitar solo over it. It was one of those things where we were jamming around, trying to fish out the arrangement, and it just happened.” While MYLES KENNEDY adds, “The lyric ultimately explores how humans can be brainwashed or indoctrinated by some sort of dangerous idea. Once we shot the demo back and forth a few times, I personally felt confident that we had the album opener. To me, it’s an important track.”
Slash discusses the new album in length, the new song, working during covid, doing a record deal with Gibson guitars, and what it was like on the most recent Guns N’ Roses tour with Cutter on Cutter’s Rockcast.
