New Guns N' Roses song Shackler's Revenge leaked

Rockin' or rubbish? You decide

Shackler's Revenge, the Guns N' Roses track set to feature on Chinese Democracy and in the Rock Band 2 videogame in September, has been leaked online.

Shackler's Revenge certainly bears little resemblance to the GN'R of old, with multi-layered tracks of Axl Rose's vocals and industrial flavours.

There is also what sounds to our ears like a characteristically barking mad Buckethead guitar solo at 2:16.

We'd advise clicking this link right now and checking it out before it inevitably gets taken down.

What do you think? Is it worth the wait?

UPDATE: Chinese Democracy review.

Chris Vinnicombe worked with us here on the MusicRadar team from the site's initial launch way back in 2007, and also contributed to Guitarist magazine as Features Editor until 2014, as well as Total Guitar magazine, amongst others. These days he can be found at Gibson Guitars, where he is editor-in-chief.

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