Due for release on February 26, 2027 via Gibson Records, the band’s fifth studio album was recorded largely live with longtime producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette at Studio Barbarosa in Florida.
The 12-track set captures Slash on guitar and pedal steel, Myles Kennedy on vocals, Todd Kerns on bass, Brent Fitz on drums, and Frank Sidoris on rhythm guitar at their most immediate, instinctive, and tightly connected. The band completed the bulk of the record in approximately one week, often recording two songs a day with the musicians performing together in the same room.
The roots of SMKC stretch back to Slash's star-studded, self-titled 2010 solo album, on which Kennedy appeared as one of several guest vocalists. The musical and personal connection that followed quickly developed into a permanent band.
"I got into working with the Conspirators as a happy accident from doing that first solo album," Slash says. "I established a relationship with these guys on a musical and personal level that I wasn't about to give up when Guns restarted."
SMKC recently announced the Flying Blind World Tour 2027, an extensive international run launching in Latin America in April before reaching North America on April 23 and continuing through the United Kingdom and Europe.
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