by Oliver on January 28, 2024 in Single
Because the band has just added a terribly grotesque AI video to their current single, this is an opportunity to remember what a strange Frankenstein creature Guns N‘ Roses with it The General but released at the end of last year.
On Absurd, Hard Skool and Perhaps is following The General certainly the most controversial, polarizing use of leftovers Guns N‘ Roses from the around Chinese Democracy dated archives – which must be enough as a warning for a song that Ex-Skid Row-Frontman Sebastian Bach 2088 as “slow, crunchy track“, and earlier as the “By far the heaviest metal song I’ve ever heard from Axl“. From a sequel to the classic Estranged was even talked about.
However, the gap between reality and reality could hardly be wider. Rose, Slash and McKagan are there together with their ex-buddy Brain and Chris Pitman as well as composer Marco Beltrami and guitarist Marc Haggard recorded a truly grotesque clusterfuck that, theoretically experimental and quite interesting, simply doesn’t seem to work coherently in practice.
What remains to be seen is which aspect of the number – the songwriting? the mix? this singing? or even the fundamental artistic ambition behind these four and a half minutes? – now goes most absurdly wrong.
In any case, a sampled drum kit imitates a kind of psychedelic trip hop beat, the action lurches deliriously along an old-fashioned, competent hard rock riff with a nasal Axl croaking in doubled vocals, who bleats and polishes his voice, which is affected by effects, irritatingly into the foreground, while the guitar staggers through the events, disoriented.
Find in the chorus The General a little clearer to the catchy rock and that, in a dramatic sense, ignites a little better. In the finale, the gliding soloing is almost convincing, while the singing is already starting to hurt. The fact that every element of the number behind Axl staggers around in a strange way without any goal or usefulness to the song and buys a questionable uniqueness in the band’s work with a tendency towards complete creative catastrophe, creates an abstruse, unfavorable entertainment value on an unpleasantly serious C-movie level.
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