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Foo Fighters Team With Butch Vig for “Heaviest Album Yet”

Jack_C_GregoryJack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
edited March 2010 in Other Music
Forget all that talk of a hiatus. The Foo Fighters are getting ready to head back into the studio, Dave Grohl revealed at the Independent Spirit Awards on Friday night. Swigging from a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey, the Foos frontman and Them Crooked Vultures drummer, who had just introduced a performance by Best Documentary subjects Anvil, said his band will work with Butch Vig on their seventh album, in part to mark the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, which Vig produced in 1991. “Me and [Foos drummer] Taylor [Hawkins] have already started demoing songs,” Grohl told Rolling Stone.

But unlike the Foos’ previous two efforts, which were recorded at Studio 606 (a cutting edge recording complex/rehearsal space/party den that the band owns in Northridge, California), this forthcoming album will be recorded entirely in analog — and out of Grohl’s garage. “We’re doing a test on Monday,” he said when asked about potential noise complaints from his Encino neighbors (and the missus). Indeed, the father of two added, “I think this could be our heaviest album yet.”

With no firm timeline for release (though the month September was bandied about), the follow-up to 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace will also be accompanied by a documentary film, said Grohl, that will celebrate the Foos’ 16 years together and chronicle the making of the album. No doubt he was inspired by the movie Anvil! The Story of Anvil. For his Independent Spirit introduction, Grohl went off script and urged not just all musicians, but every person in the room to watch the movie that made him cry.

Nervous that his ad-libbing didn’t come out as well as he’d hoped, afterwards, Grohl clutched his bottle like a security blanket, while waiting for his wife Jordyn to peruse the tent-adjacent Elle Lounge. “If I stay another minute, I’m gonna get so fucking drunk, I’ll barf all over myself,” he cracked.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Shitty.....I'd rather have TCV.
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    :-o

    FF take a bit shit over TCV, i never saw FF which was a shame as ive been a fan for many a year.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    awesome cause i havent been too thrilled with the last couple of foos albums.
    actually i havent liked one of their albums since TCATS. butch will mess them up real good. :thumbup:
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  • skippybrewskippybrew Posts: 283
    Nice. The Foos have been sounding a little too polished lately so this sounds promising.
    DewieCox wrote:
    Shitty.....I'd rather have TCV.

    They've said they're gonna do it... He's a working man, so I think they'll both happen.
  • peacegirlpeacegirl Posts: 841
    this sounds good
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    like the sounds of this album
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    man... if we can get foos, QOTSA, and TCV out of this deal then i am a happy camper :mrgreen:

    keep up all the good work!

    all that drumming focus as of late can only have a positive effect on this new stuff
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  • BALLBOYBALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,032
    They have just tried to be way to heavy for their last few. Didn't even get the last one. Vig will over produce to hell just like Nevermind. Nothing left to Lose is their last & best album.
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Foo Fighters are corporate alterna-shlock. Give me TCV any day.
  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    They probably mean emotionally heavy.
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  • scottstappsucksscottstappsucks Posts: 991
    Hopefully it's better than that piece of shit they put out in 2007. I'd prefer to hear another TCV record before hearing new FF. I'd like to hear Grohl go back to the raw sound he had on the 1995 self-titled Foo Fighters record, which to this day is my favorite FF album.
    Back_Pedal wrote:
    They probably mean emotionally heavy.
    lol
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,942
    scottstappsucks wrote:
    Hopefully it's better than that piece of shit they put out in 2007. I'd prefer to hear another TCV record before hearing new FF. I'd like to hear Grohl go back to the raw sound he had on the 1995 self-titled Foo Fighters record, which to this day is my favorite FF album.

    S/T album is Dave Grohl singing and playing every instrument, by the way. It's not really a band. It still was pretty awesome!

    Can't wait for new Foo - been a little while...
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I'm really liking the way this is sounding.
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