After rocking fans on tour all summer and headlining appearances at this year's epic Aftershock and Power Trip festivals, Guns N' Roses are putting a bow on 2023 with the release of their Chinese Democracy-era single, "The General."
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Originally dropped over the summer as the vinyl-only B-side to "Perhaps," and debuted live during their two-night stint at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl last month, Guns N' Roses' "The General" has now been given a proper release.
Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach told Rolling Stone in 2008 that frontman Axl Rose had revealed to him that the "slow, grinding track" is the sequel to the band's "Estranged," from 1991's Use Your Illusion II.
The track now joins GN'R's two other Chinese Democracy session leftovers "Hard Skool" and "ABSURD" as official singles and, apparently, there are a few more tracks still waiting to see the light of day.
Guitarist Slash told Trunk Nation host Eddie Trunk back in October of 2022 that the band had "a handful of those songs that we actually fixed up and did when we were in lockdown... So, those are gonna come out. They’re really good, too... We’re just gonna put out like one or two songs, and another one or two songs. And I think that’s gonna be pretty much all of ’em. I’m not sure exactly how many we did in total.”
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