Slash’s 2^nd solo studio album, Orgy of the Damned, a rockin’ blues compilation released in May of 2024, is his best effort since GNR’s 1987 release ‘Appetite for Destruction’.

Following closely in the concept album footsteps of Carlos Santana’s ‘Supernatural and Shaman’, the album contains 11 standards and covers written by a who’s who list of American bluesmen including Robert Johnson (‘Crossroads’), Aaron Walker (‘Stormy Monday’), and Chester Burnett (‘Killing Floor’) plus a new instrumental, ‘Metal Chestnut’ written by Slash.

Slash assembled some of rock’s great guitarists and vocalists to accompany him on the album including Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), and blues vocalist Beth Hart.

Slash, with little memorable musical output since GNR, may have finally found his solo groove sans Axl.

Source: ALLMUSIC.com Graphic: Slash: ‘Orgy of the Damned’ albumcover, 2024, copyright: Gibson.