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Velvet Revolver working on “heavier” songs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 3 June 2010
The next Velvet Revolver album, should they ever get around to hiring a new frontman, will be heavier than their previous two, says guitarist Slash. The band, of course, split from former vocalist Scott Weiland two years ago.
Speaking to MTV, Slash said: “As soon as we got off the road from the last tour and parted ways with Scott, we got together and wrote half a dozen really great, sort of heavy metal pieces of music. It’s a lot heavier than what Velvet Revolver has put out [in the past], so I’m dying to put out the quintessential Velvet Revolver record”.
He added: “When [former Guns N Roses bandmates] Duff [McKagan, bass] and Matt [Sorum, drums] and I first got together, we wrote a ton of material that never saw the light of day, and that was all very heavy. It’s definitely our natural way of doing things. But when we started working with Scott, we started to lighten things up a lot, and we progressively got lighter. As much as I love the two records we did do, one of the things that was progressively more and more frustrating was the direction the band took”.
