The face of the matter is....
That Guns 'N Roses' newest album, Chinese Democracy, is being called an "indutrial" album. Now the thing is, that I personally am an "industrial junkie" [someone who loves industrial music more than any other music], but I also like Guns 'N Roses. I'll tell you one thing, Guns 'N Roses are NOT industrial. I've heard the album, and its as industrial as country music. Not industrial at all.
In 1999, the industrial metal song "Oh My God" was released on the End of Days soundtrack. It featured current Guns N' Roses members Axl Rose, Dizzy Reed, Robin Finck, Chris Pitman, and Tommy Stinson, along with former members Paul Tobias and Josh Freese. Dave Navarro and Gary Sunshine also recorded guitar parts for the song. "Oh My God" was unpopular upon its release and was described by Allmusic as "a less than satisfying comeback". The sound of Chinese Democracy was often reported to be industrial rock music similar to Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, a style of which Rose had long been a fan. However, in a 2001 interview with an Argentine radio station, Rose stated the album wasn't industrial, and would vary in styles. "It is not industrial, the closest thing to that was perhaps "Oh My God", but there are some songs that won't be on the album that were this way. There will be all kinds of styles, many influences as blues, mixed in the songs."¹
Tracks:
All lyrics written by Axl Rose
#."Title" /Writer(s)/Run time
1."Chinese Democracy" /Axl Rose, Josh Freese/4:43
2."Shackler's Revenge" /Rose, Buckethead, Caram Costanzo, Bryan Mantia, Pete Scaturro/3:37
3."Better" /Rose, Robin Finck/4:58
4."Street of Dreams" /Rose, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed/4:46
5."If the World" /Rose, Chris Pitman/4:54
6."There Was a Time" /Rose, Paul Tobias, Reed/6:41
7."Catcher in the Rye" /Rose, Tobias/5:53
8."Scraped" /Rose, Costanzo, Buckethead/3:30
9."Riad n' the Bedouins" /Rose, Stinson/4:10
10."Sorry" /Rose, Buckethead, Mantia, Scaturro/6:14
11."I.R.S." /Rose, Tobias, Reed/4:28
12."Madagascar" /Rose, Pitman/5:38
13."This I Love" /Rose/5:34
14."Prostitute"/Rose, Tobias/6:15²
You be the jduge. Is Chinese Democracy INDUSTRIAL or HARD ROCK?
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[¹ Eddie Trunk Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_democracy]
[² Track listing Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_democracy]