After selling out the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland in about eight minutes, GUNS N' ROSES have added another show at the same venue the following day (July 6). Tickets for the second show will go on sale on Friday, March 17 at 9:00 a.m. The opening act for the Helsinki shows will be BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. GUNS N' ROSES will also be playing at the Spektrum in Oslo, Norway on June 28. Tickets for that show will go on sale March 18. The group's European schedule is now shaping up as follows:

May 27 - Lisbon, POR @ Rock In Rio (Lisbon)
May 28 - Madrid, SPA @ TBA
Jun. 3-4 - Milan, ITA @ Gods of Metal
Jun. 3-6 - Nürburgring, GER @ Rock am Ring
Jun. 09 - Dublin, IRE @ RDS Arena
Jun. 11 - Donington, UK @ Download
Jun. 13 - Prague, CZR @ Sazka Arena
Jun. 15 - Warsaw, POL @ Legia Stadium
Jun. 17 - Pannonia Fields, AUT @ Nova Rock
Jun. 20 - Paris, FRA @ Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Jun. 24 - Dessel, BEL @ Graspop Metal Meeting
Jun. 26 - Stockholm, SWE @ Globen
Jun. 28 - Oslo, NOR @ Spektrum
Jun. 29 - Roskilde, DEN @ Roskilde Festival
Jul. 05 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall Arena
Jul. 06 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall Arena

GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" collection, which was originally issued in March of 2004, has sold more than 2.8 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose, along with ex-members Slash and Duff McKagan, tried to block the release of "Greatest Hits" with a lawsuit, claiming that the record label had assembled the CD without their input. The band's label, Geffen Records, insisted that it was forced to put out a greatest hits album since Axl Rose had failed to deliver the long-delayed new GUNS album, "Chinese Democracy".

In a rare interview conducted by Rolling Stone magazine on Jan. 13, GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose promised fans that the band will be back in 2006 with the "Chinese Democracy" album.

"People will hear music this year," Rose said. "'Chinese Democracy' is a very complex record. I am trying to do something different. Some of the arrangements are kind of like QUEEN." He also added he is working on 32 songs for the album and 26 are finished out of which 13 will feature on the final album. Some songs include "Better", "There was a Time" and "The Blues".

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