Slash has introduced he’ll “not be energetic” on X/Twitter.
The Weapons N’ Roses guitarist posted an announcement yesterday (9 April) to his 3.4million followers, the place he wrote: “I’d like to tell you that I’ve determined to step away from Twitter/X and can not be energetic on the platform.”
He additional defined that “this was a thought of choice after repeated hacks, and it displays a shift in how I’d like to remain related shifting ahead.”
The musician will nonetheless be discovered on Instagram, TikTok, and Fb, the place he can be “posting common updates”.
— Slash (@Slash) April 9, 2025
We final spoke to Slash in 2023, the place he advised NME about his love for film soundtracks within the wake of his scoring and producing 2023 horror film The Breach.
Talking about movie composers he regarded as much as, he advised us: “Effectively, John Carpenter is nice. I like Danny Elfman, he’s a genius. Hans Zimmer might be nice too. John Williams and all these guys are tremendous sensible, however then there are some smaller names that perhaps individuals solely know for one film. I imply individuals like [Icelandic musician] Hildur Guðnadóttir who did Joker – that was an incredible fucking rating.
“I additionally assume [Radiohead guitarist] Johnny Greenwood is a good fucking composer. There Will Be Blood was top-of-the-line scores of the final 20 years.”
Lately, Weapons N’ Roses introduced AWOLNATION’s Isaac Carpenter as their new drummer. Carpenter’s recruitment got here sooner or later after the “amicable” departure of longtime drummer Frank Ferrer.
Carpenter has been a part of AWOLNATION’s arrange since 2014, and he has additionally beforehand labored with GNR’s bassist Duff McKagan’s band Loaded, Adam Lambert and A Good Circle.
In different information, Weapons N’ Roses’ supervisor claimed that Slash and Izzy Stradlin as soon as took a whole drug stash to keep away from an airport bust.
