Guns N' Roses have dropped two new tunes this morning (Dec 5), Nothin' and Atlas, releasing them a couple days later than they promised, in true GnR fashion. 

The tracks are the fifth and sixth songs the band have released since Slash and Duff McKagan rejoined the fold in 2016, following Absurd, Hard Skool, Perhaps and The General.

Nothin' is the softer one here, a piano-led tune with roomy choruses and a bit of that classic GNR ballad sound. 

Atlas goes the other way, a quicker rocker stacked with layers and textures and a signature Slash solo. Both landed after the band teased them on socials last month while announcing their 2026 world tour.

Both songs date back to the band’s Chinese Democracy sessions. The full band is credited on both songs, with production credit going to Rose and Chinese Democracy co-producer Caram Costanzo.

They’ve played all four of their previous post-reunion songs live, so chances are these two will surely get a run on next year’s setlists.

As for the big question about a new album, Slash told Guitar World that a full album is still on the cards. It would be their first since 2008’s Chinese Democracy and the first with Slash and Duff since 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident?. 

The guitarist kept it very Slash, saying, “There’s so much material at this point, it’s a matter of having the discipline to sit down and fucking get into it.” He also reckons planning never works for GN’R. “It just spontaneously happens through some sort of inspiration that triggers it… So it’s coming… It’ll just happen when it happens.”

In the meantime, we’ve got a couple of decent new tracks to spin while we wait.