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Guns N' Roses have teased a new LP and tour for 2016.
Guitarist Richard Fortus revealed the rockers are planning to release the follow-up to 2008's 'Chinese Democracy' next year, and hope to head back out on the road to support the record.
He told Stormbringer magazine: "We're going to be doing stuff next year. We're not going to have anything out this year. Next year it should be out and we'll be touring."
The news comes after Richard's fellow Guns N' Roses guitarist DJ Ashba said the band were going to continue working through possible tracks for an LP before performing a "huge tour".
He explained: "We were talking about doing another huge tour. Our main focus right now is putting together the next Guns record. We've got tons of material - it's just a matter of sitting down and sifting through all the pieces. It looks like we're going to be doing a lot more touring."
The band - fronted by Axl Rose and also featuring Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Chris Pitman, Frank Ferrer and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal with its current line-up - toured relentlessly in 2013 and 2014 but have been working on new music ever since.
Last July, Dizzy said the 'Sweet Child O' Mine' hitmakers' seventh studio record was "close to being done", and said it was "just a matter of picking out which songs will be on it."

Alice Cooper thinks One Direction are "pretty good".
The 67-year-old rocker - whose real name is Vincent Damon Furnier - has revealed he's become good friends with Harry Styles and is fan of the music he makes with bandmates Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.
Speaking at the Kerrang! Awards, he said: "You listen to their records and they actually make stuff that's pretty good - not just the same old."
The 'Poison' hitmaker also revealed how he became pals with Harry, 21, after being introduced by their mutual friend, 'Pirates of the Caribbean' actor Johnny Depp, at his Los Angeles home.
He told The Sun newspaper: "I met Harry through Johnny. They're friends. Johnny's house in LA is where everyone congregates. We hung out there."
Meanwhile, Alice - who legally changed his name to that of the band for which he was frontman in the 70s before launching a solo career - recently announced his new album 'Hollywood Vampires' featuring Sir Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl and Depp is "done, mixed and ready to go".
He said previously: "The album's done. It's mixed, ready to go and I'm very, very happy with it. I'm really happy with all the stuff on it. McCartney's on it. [Ringo Starr's drummer son] Zak Starkey's on it. Dave Grohl is on it, [AC/DC frontman] Brian Johnson, and in places where you wouldn't expect them to be, that's the cool thing."

Florence + the Machine have replaced Foo Fighters as Friday's (26.06.15) Glastonbury headliner.
The band were forced to pull out of their scheduled performance after frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg falling from a stage in Sweden last week, but the 'Ship to Wreck' hitmakers have now stepped in to take the prestigious slot.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis said: "Once we heard the sad news that Foo Fighters had been forced to pull out, there was only one person we wanted to call and that was Florence. Every time she has played here she's done something spectacular and we always knew she would headline the Pyramid one day. I'm delighted she's agreed to step up to it - she's going to smash it!"
The replacement act - who were scheduled to perform in the slot before the 'My Hero' rockers - will perform tracks from their first two LPs, as well as new album 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful' which was released earlier this month.
The group, fronted by Florence Welch - who fractured her foot earlier this year by leaping off a stage - previously said it would be "wonderful" to headline the iconic British festival, but admitted the prospect would be worrying.
She said: "I think I'm quite happy with where we are.
"It would be wonderful to headline, but also I don't know how I'd be dealing with that right now.
"I'm not really planning what's going to happen at Glastonbury, because I just don't know. It's almost quite hard for me to remember gigs sometimes, because I just don't know what happens. It's almost as if something else completely takes over. So if I'm back in fully charged feet mode, I'm nervous for what's going to happen. It's this sense that anything could happen."

Jimmy Page doesn't miss Led Zeppelin.
The 72-year-old guitarist insists he hasn't been "missing" his former group - fronted by Robert Plant - over the last few years as he has been so busy working on the live album and DVD 'Celebration Day' - which featured the recording of the band's last live show in 2007 at The O2 for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert - and the acclaimed reissues of their back catalogue.
Speaking at a press conference to mark the release of the final three LPs at Olympic Studios in London, he said: "I haven't been missing it for the last three years because I've been involved from 'Celebration Day' all the way through to this. So no, it's OK, it's fine."
For each album reissue Page trawled though the vaults and went in search of previously unreleased or unheard material and alternative recordings of songs to create companion discs to each original LP.
The rock legend knows he has found all the extra music he could and thinks he's "done" his "job" for the fans.
He said: "As far as the studio side of things (goes), this is it. Unless something might pop up on international Record Store Day or something like that. But it will be a long way off.
"There were hundreds of hours of listening to set all of this up. I'm really thrilled because what it means for Led Zeppelin fans is that there's now twice as much information as there was before, and it's of really good quality. So as far as I'm concerned, I've done my job.
"Looking at the whole bootleg scene and knowing how much live material had already come out, and pretty good stuff at that, dealing with the studio outtakes seemed to be a more satisfying project ... This is what needed to be done - the whole Led Zeppelin world in the studio needed to be dealt with properly and seriously."
As for Page's musical future he is still getting his guitar playing up to speed for a series of proposed concerts and he wants to continue making music.
He explained: "I'll be working on the guitar now, that's the next thing to be obsessive about. It's clear what I'm going to be doing next; I want to do something, which involves being seen to play the guitar. It goes without saying that I would like to be doing a guitar project - I mean, better doing that than a violin project!"
The last three Led Zeppelin reissues, 'Presence', 'In Through the Out Door' and 'Coda' will be available from July 31.

Bruce Dickinson is launching an airline.
The Iron Maiden rocker has started employing pilots and crew members for his latest venture, VVB, after purchasing a Boeing 737 jet.
In 2012, the musician launched aircraft maintenance business Cardiff Aviation Ltd at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, where his latest venture is set to be based.
Speaking about the news, he told WalesOnline.co.uk: "In the last two years we've grown relentlessly, thanks to our unique entrepreneurial style of MRO and training. We're now looking to bring that approach to the airline market with VVB.
"This is a huge opportunity to create new jobs and further increase our already impressive roster of services."
The 56-year-old frontman originally trained to fly recreationally in the 1990s but has since become known for his airborne hobby, having regularly flown planes for the now-defunct airline Astraeus after securing an airline transport pilot's licence.
'The Trooper' singer - who underwent chemotherapy earlier this year after a cancerous tumour was discovered on his tongue - has now applied for a license for the airline to operate flights within Europe.
Meanwhile, the heavy metal band - which also features Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Nicko McBrain and Janick Gers with their current line-up - released their 15th studio album 'The Final Frontier' in 2010.

Dave Grohl has six metal screws in his leg.
The Foo Fighters frontman fractured his limb when he fell off stage during a show in Sweden last week, and underwent surgery on Monday (15.06.15) during which the metal bolts were placed in his leg to encourage a full recovery.
He said: "So... here I am, recovering with 6 metal screws in my leg, thinking about a lifetime of holding up TSA lines from here to Kalamazoo....damn. (sic)"
However, the 46-year-old rocker confessed he is still unsure about how the injury will impact him long-term.
He continued: "My doctors have advised me to lay low for a while. The most important thing now is for me to recover from the surgery, to keep my leg elevated so as to keep swelling down and prevent any infection/complication that could do long term damage. I'm not out of the woods yet, folks."
The 'My Hero' hitmakers have now cancelled a string of scheduled European performances including two dates at London's Wembley Stadium and their headline slot at Glastonbury Festival next Friday (26.06.15), but said the accident has given them "a new sense of appreciation" for their talents.
He wrote on the band's website: "All in all, it was without a doubt the single most bizarre Foo Fighters show in the entire 20 years of being a band. Hands down. What seemed like a tragedy at first turned into a triumph, and we all walked away with a new sense of appreciation for what we've got."
Meanwhile, Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has sent her well wishes to Dave, and insisted they have a contingency plan in place for a replacement headliner, with an announcement expected imminently.

Take That want to work with The Prodigy.
The 'Let In The Sun' hitmakers are thinking potential collaborations for their next album and Mark Owen would love to get the 'Firestarter' group on board - but he knows it;s unlikely to happen.
He said: "Maybe we should get The Prodigy on the next record. I saw them once -- they were brilliant.
"We've started thinking about people to collaborate with on the next album, but unfortunately they haven't been thinking of us."
Meanwhile, after Foo Fighters' singer Dave Grohl and U2's The Edge were left injured after falling off stage, Enrique Iglesias had to undergo hand surgery after an accident with a drone and 5 Seconds of Summer's Michael Clifford was burned by pyrotechnics, the trip admit they "worry" about experiencing an on-stage injury.
Mark told The Sun newspaper: "It really is a worry. I hope we're insured for a lot!"
And the 'Back for Good' hitmakers also worry Howard Donald's social media habits will get them into trouble.
Gary Barlow said: "Oh God, he needs a Twitter ban. It's constant. He needs his phone taking off him."
Howard admitted: "I do stupid tweets every day."
However, Mark wasn't too upset when his bandmate recently took to Twitter to proclaim the 'Four Minute Warning' singer had a large penis.
He said: "I didn't mind him saying that one."

Hilary Duff thinks it must be "hard" for Mike Comrie to listen to her music.
The 27-year-old musician and actress split from the retired ice hockey player after three years of marriage in January 2014 and admitted she drew on the emotional period when writing her new album 'Breathe In. Breathe Out.' which she said reveals a lot about their failed relationship.
She said: "I'm sure it was hard for him to listen to some of the things I'm sharing about him.
"But that's my job. I'm an artist. He knew that when he married me."
Although the blonde beauty - who has three-year-old son Luca with her ex-husband - put everything she had into the LP by spilling lots of intimate details about the breakdown of their marriage, she insisted music isn't everything to her, and she wants to keep a steady balance between being a musician, an actress, and having a social life.
She told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: "Trying to penetrate the music world takes all your time - you have to hit every radio station, or they won't play your single, unless you're, like, Taylor Swift.
"That was when I realized that I really care about being an actress, a singer and having a life outside of both. So maybe that means I'm not going to be able to be where I was. I'm not going to be able to fight for being the biggest artist."

The Foo Fighters have been forced to cancel their headline slot at Glastonbury Festival.
The rock group have announced that they will no longer be able to perform at the British festival as well as dates in Belgium, Edinburgh and London's iconic Wembley Stadium after frontman Dave Grohl broke his leg on stage last week.
In a post on their official website, the 46-year-old musician wrote: "It kills me to say it.....the doctors have told us to cancel shows. I'm really so sorry, guys. You know I hate to do it, but I'm afraid it's just not physically possible for me at the moment.
"We're doing our best right now to work out a plan, so bear with us. You know we're good for our word. But for now, I need to make sure we have YEARS of gigs ahead of us.... (sic)"
During his open letter to fans, Dave also recalled the accident which left him with six metal screws in his leg.
He wrote: "I definitely shredded something (ZING!) Wound up feet first over the Edge (pun intended), dropping about 12 feet, dislocating my ankle and snapping my fibula like an old pair of take out chopsticks. Whoopsie daisy. Not good ...
"As I lay there on my back, I just thought, "Are you kidding me? We haven't even gotten to the screamy bit of the song and the gig is f***ing OVER?" So, I asked for a microphone and told the audience I'd get fixed up and come right back to finish the show ASAP. Shock? Probably. But, I couldn't stand the thought of such a perfect night going to waste! (sic)"
In a statement, organisers at Glastonbury Festival have sent Dave their well-wishes.
They said: "We wish Dave Grohl all the best for a full and speedy recovery."