Chinese Democracy According to "Rolling Stone", engineer Andy Wallace, who had worked with Nirvana, Sepultura, Slayer, and Bad Religion, was working on the album that year. Stinson stated that year that most of the album had been recorded collaboratively in 2001, and had been "pretty much done" since then. On December 14, on the Guns N' Roses website, Rose announced the cancellation of four shows, citing the need for more time to work on "Chinese Democracy". He also announced that the band had ended their relationship with Mercuriadis, and announced a tentative release date of March 6, 2007, the first time the
Chinese Democracy However, plans fell through and only the "art edition" was released in limited quantities. By the time "Chinese Democracy" was released, only 3 of the 14 songs had not been leaked or played live. Music blogger Kevin Cogill streamed nine tracks of "Chinese Democracy" on his website Antiquiet for "an hour or two" in June 2008. Shortly after the leaked files were made available, the website server crashed because of the high volume of user traffic and the tracks were later removed. In August, the FBI arrested Cogill under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act for releasing copyrighted material. According