Stop laughing - Chinese Democracy is coming

Fairfax Media

IT'S COMING: Chinese Democracy will be released in New Zealand on November 24.

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It's no joke - a New Zealand release date for Chinese Democracy, the much anticipated new album by notorious rock band Guns N' Roses, has been confirmed.

A spokesperson said the album, which has been 14 years in the making and is rumoured to have cost US$13 million, will be released worldwide on November 24.

It will feature 14 songs, and the tracklisting - unveiled by British retailer HMV - includes well-known songs that have been leaked to the internet in various stages of completion.

Some, including IRS and Better, were played during Guns N' Roses' New Zealand concert last year.

Chinese Democracy is the follow-up to Guns N' Roses' last studio albums, Use Your Illusion I & II, released in 1991.

The first single, the title track, was debuted on British radio today.

Front man Axl Rose is the only original member still in the band.

The tracklisting:

Chinese Democracy
Scraped
Shackler's Revenge
Street Of Dreams
If The World
Better
This I Love
There Was A Time
Riad N' The Bedovins
Sorry
I.R.S.
Catcher
Madagascar
Prostitute