In the middle of a worldwide tour with Guns N’ Roses, Slash has revealed that he’s working on a more “blues-oriented” album, featuring a number of different vocalists for 2024. The guitarist didn’t reveal a release date for the album but said that it would be out in 2024, and confirmed one of the featured singers: Demi Lovato.
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“There’s not really much more to tell you at this point, but [Lovato and I] definitely recorded something,” said Slash. “It’s a completely different type of a song, so it’s interesting how diverse her voice can be.”
Slash recently played on the rock version of Lovato’s 2017 song “Sorry Not Sorry,” originally released on her album Tell Me You Love Me. The new version with Slash will appear on Lovato’s Revamped album out September 2023. “I told her, ‘Hey, if you ever need me to put some guitar on something, just let me know and I’ll do it,” said Slash. “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.”
The guitarist, who has been sober for 17 years, said that he and Lovato initially started talking several years ago, and bonded over their shared history of addiction and recovery.
“She and I know each other because we’re both, we’ve been through that,” said Slash. “We were introduced a long time ago and we had that relate to — we were both struggling addicts and all that. I’d been sober for a little while and she was still struggling a little bit, having just gone through a relapse.”
He added, “And then I talked to her just post-that, and she was sort of trying to get it back together and whatnot. That’s how we initially started sort of talking, and she’s just really cool and she’s a really intelligent and talented girl. And so, we’ve just been friends ever since then.”
The new album follows Slash’s 2010 self-titled solo debut — which also featured Fergie, Adam Levine, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Cornell, Nicole Scherzinger, among others — and his fourth album with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, 4, released in 2022.
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