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A new
GUNS N' ROSES song called
"Hard School" (a.k.a.
"Hard Skool") will reportedly be released soon.
The track, which had the working title
"Jackie Chan", was originally recorded during
GN'R's
"Chinese Democracy" era but was eventually omitted from that album. Short clips of the song were later posted online and a full version was leaked in August 2019.
More recently, the partially reunited classic lineup of
GUNS N' ROSES rehearsed the track for its September 2019 concert at the Hollywood Palladium and it included the song on the setlist for some of its concerts on
GN'R's summer 2021 tour but has yet to perform it live.
Earlier today, a photo of a young
GUNS N' ROSES fan with singer
Axl Rose was shared on
Twitter, along with the following message: "A fan met
Axl Rose after the second
GUNS N' ROSES show in Atlantic City, NJ last night. She said he invited her backstage and they had a beer together. She also said she asked him about
Hard Skool. He played the song for her and said they are releasing it soon."
If
"Hard School" does see the light of day, it will be the second new
GUNS N' ROSES song to be released within just a few weeks. Another
GN'R track called
"Absurd" — which is a reworked version of a previously unreleased song called
"Silkworms" — arrived on August 6, three days after the band performed the tune live for the first time during its concert at Boston's Fenway Park.
GUNS N' ROSES last performed
"Silkworms", which was also reportedly written during the
"Chinese Democracy" sessions, in 2001.
The band is now said to be working on a new studio album — the first under the
GUNS banner since
"Chinese Democracy" and the first to feature
Rose, guitarist
Slash and bassist
Duff McKagan since 1993.