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Chinese Democracy
Chinese Democracy is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on November 23, 2008 by Black Frog and Geffen Records. It was their first album since 1993's ""The Spaghetti Incident?"", and their first album of original studio material since the simultaneous releases of 1991's "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II". In the mid-1990s, amid creative and personal differences, guitarists Slash and Gilby Clarke, bassist Duff McKagan, and
, believing they should be focused on the record release.
Amidst industry rumors in April 2008 that a release was coming soon, nine tracks purported to be from "Chinese Democracy" were leaked to a website on June 19, 2008, but were quickly removed due to a cease-and-desist letter from the band's label. Six of the leaked tracks had surfaced previously in some form, while three were new. The leaked songs were more fleshed out than previously heard tracks. On July 14, 2008,