Chinese Democracy
Chinese Democracy
Studio album by Guns N’ Roses
Released November 23, 2008
Recorded 1994-2007
Battery Soundtrack, Bennett House,
Can Am, Capitol, Cherokee, Electric
Lady, IGA, The Palms, Rumbo, Sunset
Sound, The Townhouse, The Village,
Woodland Ranch
Genre
Hard rock
Length
71:18
Label
Geffen
Producer Axl Rose, Caram Costanzo
Professional reviews
• Allmusic
link
• Rolling Stone
link
• The A.V. Club (A-) link
• Robert Christgau (B+) link
• Sputnikmusic
link
• Entertainment Weekly (B-) link
• IGN
link
• Pitchfork Media (5.8/10) link
• PopMatters
link
• Classic Rock
Guns N’ Roses chronology
"The Spaghetti
Incident?"
(1993)
Chinese
Democracy
(2008)
Singles from Chinese Democracy
1. "Chinese Democracy"
Released: October 22, 2008
2. "Better"
Released: November 17, 2008
Chinese Democracy is the sixth studio al-
bum by American rock band Guns N’ Roses.
It was released on November 23, 2008,
worldwide, except in the United Kingdom on
November 24, 2008.[1] It is the band’s first
studio album since 1993’s "The Spaghetti In-
cident?", and their first album of original stu-
dio material since the simultaneous release
of Use Your Illusion I and II in September
1991.
Background
Guns N’ Roses began to write and record
new music in 1994. Ex-bassist Duff McKagan
is quoted as saying, "[the] band was so
splintered at that point that nothing got star-
ted".[2] Slash has criticized Axl Rose for mak-
ing the band seem "like a dictatorship".[3]
Slash quit the band in 1996, with drummer
Matt Sorum and McKagan both leaving soon
afterwards.[4] Slash was replaced by Nine
Inch Nails touring guitarist Robin Finck,
ex-Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson re-
placed McKagan, and Josh Freese joined as
the drummer. In early 1998, the band —
which comprised Rose, Finck, Stinson and
Freese along with long-time Guns N’ Roses
associate Paul Tobias, keyboardists Dizzy
Reed and Chris Pitman — began recording at
Rumbo Recorders, a state-of-the-art studio in
the San Fernando Valley where Guns N’
Roses had partially recorded parts for their