Axl Rose has 'three albums' of new material

Speaking to an Australian radio station the guitarist said "Axl has a lot of great songs up his sleeve. He probably has three albums worth of stuff recorded. The stuff I've heard... I've been up in his hotel room many nights and he just sits down at the piano and plays. I'm like, 'This is amazing, people have to hear this song' and he's like, 'Ah, this is something I'm tinkering on.'"

Nearly fifteen years passed before the band released their most recent album Chinese Democracy in 2008, and the singer outraged many Irish fans by storming off stage at a gig in the o2 last September.

Ashba said the 'November Rain' writer is "a genius when it comes down to music and I just cannot wait to sit down with an acoustic guitar and just write. He's just got this gift that's very, very rare."