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A new teaser video for the upcoming upcoming album from
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS is available below.
In the 13-second clip,
Slash states: "I think the record itself is probably the best one we've done so far. We're showing no signs of slowing down." The video concludes with a shot of the
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS logo along with the phrase "Coming Soon".
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS's new album will be the follow-up to
"Living The Dream", which came out in September 2018 via
Slash's own label
Snakepit Records, in partnership with
Roadrunner Records. The disc was
Slash's fourth solo album, and third with
Slash and his
CONSPIRATORS bandmates
Myles Kennedy (vocals),
Todd Kerns (bass, vocals),
Brent Fitz (drums) and
Frank Sidoris (guitar and vocals).
In a recent interview with
Jonathan Clarke of New York's
Q104.3 radio station,
Myles stated about the new
CONSPIRATORS LP: "We started putting things together — technically, we started putting things together for that record, writing songs, on the last tour back in 2018, I think, or '19, whatever it was,"
Myles said. "So, yeah, we have a lot of stuff to pool from. And as we've been saying, it's in the can, the tunes are in the can, so we're good to go. It's just a matter of finding a window to release the stuff."
Last month,
Myles told
Anne Erickson of
Audio Ink Radio that the new
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS LP will "hopefully" see the light of day "early next year."
Asked about the sound and style of the LP,
Myles told
Audio Ink Radio: "The thing about the record is that it's got a live vibe to it. It was a record that was recorded in kind of an old-school way. So, with that said, without giving too much away, it definitely has a bit of that energy and that vibe that a lot of us listened to growing up. So, it was fun. It was a fun record to make."
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS' new album will be released via
Gibson Records, the recently launched label from
Gibson, the iconic American instrument brand, alongside a strategic partnership with
BMG.
When the
Gibson deal was first announced in July,
Slash said in a statement: "It's an honor to be the first release on the new
Gibson Records. It's a zenith in our partnership for sure and having worked so closely with
Gibson for so long, I know they will be a label that genuinely supports their artists creatively. Not just me, but all the artists they choose to work with. It's perfect."
Last December,
Slash told
Cleveland.com that
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS had written 20 songs during "a week of initial pre-production" for the band's next LP.
In November 2019,
Slash told
"The Marshall Podcast" that the road was "the only place" he and
THE CONSPIRATORS "really do get a chance to work" on new music. "If we're doing theaters and arenas and all that kind of stuff, we have our soundchecks, so I work on that stuff during that time," he said. "Because that's when I do all the writing — during the road trip. So when the tour is over, at some point, we all get together and we revisit all that material that we worked on while we were on the road. Which is actually what all the records we've done so far are a culmination of."
Complicating the creative process is the fact that
Myles Kennedy and
THE CONSPIRATORS don't live in the same town as
Slash. "
Myles is in Washington state, and I'm in L.A. and the rest of the guys are in [Las] Vegas,"
Slash explained. "So I fly everybody to L.A. and we'll stay there and we'll do pre-production and go in and do a record. But now that
GUNS N' ROSES has become a thing, I have to do that. But I will have accumulated enough material out [out on the road] that when the time comes to work on
CONSPIRATORS stuff, I already have the material."
Speaking in more detail about how songs come together with
THE CONSPIRATORS,
Slash said: "We write the whole time. I write the music ideas, and then I'll bring it into a soundcheck situation. For me, the most important thing is the drums. So I'll start working on an idea with
Brent, as well as
Todd, and even
Frank — we'll all stand there together and do it. And then just see if it catches, if it's a cool idea with all the other instruments involved. That's the thing about guitar players — you write bitchin' guitar stuff all day long, but is it a song? So we start working it up. And then
Myles will be there and he'll catch it and maybe start recording something into his phone. And we'll just sort of get the nucleus of an idea, and in some cases work on it for a few days until we have an arrangement. And then there's some stuff that we didn't ever get to play in soundcheck that I recorded on my phone in my room and I'll bring that up later."
In September 2019,
SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS released
"Living The Dream Tour" on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2 CD, 3LP black vinyl, limited-edition 3LP red vinyl, digital video and digital audio via
Eagle Vision. The set was shot on location on February 20, 2019 at London, England's Eventim Apollo.
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Posted by Slash on Monday, October 4, 2021