The new “blues-oriented” album “Orgy Of The Damned” by GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash will be available on May 17. The album, which Mike Clink produced, is expected to have 12 blues tunes with several special guests on vocals. The first song off the album, a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor” with vocals by Brian Johnson of AC/DC and harmonica by Steven Tyler of AEROSMITH, will be released Friday, March 8.
According to the Australian iTunes store, “Orgy Of The Damned” will contain the following tracks:
01. The Pusher (feat. Chris Robinson)
02. Crossroads (feat. Gary Clark Jr.)
03. Hoochie Coochie Man (feat. Billy Gibbons)
04. Oh Well (feat. Chris Stapleton)
05. Key To The Highway (feat. Dorothy)
06. Awful Dream (feat. Iggy Pop)
07. Born Under A Bad Sign (feat. Paul Rodgers)
08. Papa Was A Rolling Stone (feat. Demi Lovato)
09. Killing Floor (feat. Brian Johnson)
10. Living For The City (feat. Tash Neal)
11. Stormy Day (feat. Beth Hart)
12. Metal Chestnut
On Monday (March 4), Slash shared a teaser video for Friday’s announcement in which he said: “I’m a rock guitar player that’s firmly rooted in blues. Blues guitar is really something that I got turned on to when I was a kid. If you were to listen to anything that I do, you can see how big the blues influence is, and I always thought that I’d wanna record a record of it at some point. And we got together and did it.“
Slash also confirmed Demi Lovato’s appearance on the LP, saying: “There’s not really much more to tell you at this point, but we definitely recorded something.” In addition to their collaboration on “Orgy of the Damned”, the Guns N Roses guitarist guested on Lovato’s rock version of her 2017 song “Sorry Not Sorry”, which appeared on her “Revamped” LP, released last September.
“I told her, Hey, if you ever need me to put some guitar on something, just let me know and I’ll do it,” he said. “And so she hit me back about two weeks, three weeks later, and said she’s got this song that she’s doing a remake of and asked if I’d put some guitar on that. [GUNS N’ ROSES] did a show in Norway and I had a day off, so I found a cool engineer and studio in Norway and just put the guitars on there. It’s amazing how fast it came out.”