The latest effort by the talented Audioslave guitarist.

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Patrick St. Michel: It has been a very long time since Slash was a vital part of a fantastic rock band, or even just the coolest looking guy in Velvet Revolver. Slash is now a metaphor, an unlockable Guitar Hero skin come to life, inspiring teenagers to say “oh fuck yeah, rock ‘n’ roll” when they really mean “I want to get trashed on bottom-shelf vodka.” “World on Fire” isn’t a song as much as it’s a shitty lifestyle declaration, all boring guitar and macho blah blah and lyrics that lack any sort of humor or self-awareness, let alone anything that isn’t cliche hard-rock gobbledygook. Just YouTube Appetite For Destruction already.
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Micha Cavaseno: I can see why Axl won’t take him back, because besides maybe three songs on the first Velvet Revolver album, Slash hasn’t done anything since ‘that solo’. Lukewarm medium-speed-metal that makes Avenged Sevenfold look like Mercyful Fate in comparison.
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Anthony Easton: What the hell is happening with that pinched-off, off-key yowling, and why do the guitars just kind of grind uncomfortably? I refuse Slash’s call to revolution, and also yearn for the cheap nihilism of Appetite for Destruction. Rock is so much better when it doesn’t believe in anything. 
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Alfred Soto: Babylon redeemer, whore, satan, fires — a Sunday sermon? While Slash still plays as if someone turned on the gas range while he was sitting on it, his strangled Axlisms project no danger or menace; he could be a college bar band dude imitating Zach de la Rocha. 
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Brad Shoup: In the same way that Paul McCartney had to wean himself off recording backing vocals that sound like John’s, Slash is stuck smelling the Roses. The whine, the sneer, the complete commitment to scraped-up dogshit like “beautiful disaster”: Kennedy is the total dinged-up package. The chillest collaborator in hard rock, Slash avoids the heavier tone, content to chop away until he’s called upon to unleash some vintage wheedle.
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Cédric Le Merrer: Well, of course setting the world on fire and pushing it to the edge would bore you too if it’d been your day job for 30 years.
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