GUNS N’ ROSES have surprised fans with the release of two brand new songs, “Nothin’” and “Atlas,” marking the band’s first new music in two years and their most substantial drop of the post-reunion era.
Both tracks, officially released today, had originally been scheduled as a joint single rollout on December 2, 2025, before the band’s label briefly “temporarily postponed” the release. With the delay now resolved, fans finally have access to the long-anticipated pair of songs.
As with the recent GUNS N’ ROSES singles issued since Slash and Duff McKagan rejoined Axl Rose in 2016, both “Nothin’” and “Atlas” were conceived during the lengthy Chinese Democracy recording sessions in the late ’90s and 2000s. The band revisited the tracks in recent years, reworking and updating them with new contributions from the reunited classic-era lineup of Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan.
The two new songs bring GUNS N’ ROSES’ modern-era release count to seven, joining “The General” (2023), “Perhaps” (2023), “Hard Skool” (2021), and “Absurd” (2021). All of these tracks originate from the same deep vault of unreleased material tied to the Chinese Democracy sessions, now being gradually reimagined and shared with fans.
With the band set to embark on their 2026 massive world tour from March through September, fans can expect “Nothin’” and “Atlas” to feature prominently in upcoming setlists. A press statement for the tour notes that new material will appear alongside classic hits and fan-favorite deep cuts, continuing the band’s ongoing mixture of legacy and fresh releases.
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