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Guns N' Roses Offers Feast Of Music In 'Locked And Loaded' Edition Of Appetite For Destruction
May 4, 2018 at 1:45 PM (PT)
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Following today's ALL ACCESS free AADL download of their new single, "Shadow Of Your Love," iconic rockers GUNS N' ROSES will re-release their epic debut album, Appetite For Destruction" as a Locked N’ Loaded Edition box set (GEFFEN/UMe) on JUNE 29th.
Appetite will also be released in concurrent multiple configurations, including a four-CD/1Blu-ray Audio Super Deluxe Edition with a 96-page book featuring unreleased photos from AXL ROSE’s personal archive; a two-CD Deluxe Edition; a two-LP 180-gram heavyweight vinyl edition; and one CD remaster; and digital download/streaming equivalents.
Housed in a custom solid-wood box wrapped in faux-leather and sports embossed, Appetite For Destruction: Locked N’ Loaded Edition features the album being newly remastered from the original stereo analog tapes, 12 remastered tracks compiled from of-era EPs and B-sides, 25 unreleased demos from a 1986 SOUND CITY recording session, a pair of unreleased tracks from recording sessions by Appetite’s producer MIKE CLINK, unreleased audio of work-in-progress recording attempts of “November Rain,” covers of songs like ELVIS PRESLEY’s “Heartbreak Hotel,” AEROSMITH’s “Mama Kin,” THE ROLLING STONES’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (one electric, one acoustic) and never-finished tracks/jams “The Plague” and “New Work Tune."
On the vinyl front, the music itself is being presented on three sides only for maximum audio fidelity, with the fourth side featuring a vinyl Hologroove Hologram of the band’s iconic logo.
Seven 7-inch singles are also included: the five original singles from the album, plus one for “Patience” and a new song, the aforementioned “Shadow Of Your Love.”

