GUNS N' ROSES' 'Chinese Democracy' Album Reviewed By Rolling Stone

November 10, 2008

RollingStone.com has posted a review of GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy", penned by David Fricke. He writes, "The first GUNS N' ROSES album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the GUNS N' ROSES you know. At times, it's the clenched-fist five that made 1987's perfect storm, 'Appetite for Destruction'; more often, it's the one sprawled across the maxed-out CDs of 1991's 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'II', but here compressed into a convulsive single disc of supershred guitars, orchestral fanfares, hip-hop electronics, metallic tabernacle choirs and Axl Rose's still-virile, rusted-siren singing.

"If Rose ever had a moment's doubt or repentance over what 'Chinese Democracy' has cost him in time (13 years),money (14 studios are listed in the credits) and body count — including the exit of every other founding member of the band — he left no room for it in these 14 songs."

Read the entire review at RollingStone.com.

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