Noted liar Dave Grohl has recorded — and is about to release — a full-length thrash metal album.
No, but really. Coinciding with the premiere of Foo Fighters' Studio 666 horror film next Friday (February 25), the song-and-dance man will release an album recorded under the moniker Dream Widow.
The fictional band is a central plot point in the movie, which sees the Foos recording their album Medicine at Midnight in a haunted mansion.
"I wind up finding this creepy basement," Grohl explained to Howard Stern earlier this week. "And I go into the basement, I find this tape by a band [Dream Widow] from 25 years ago that recorded there. And there's this song that, if recorded and completed, the fucking demon in the house is unleashed, and then, whatever, all hell breaks loose."
The musician is upping the ante by deciding to release Dream Widow's "lost album" in time for the Studio 666 release.
"I mean, I work fast, but fuck, this deadline is going to kill me," Grohl told Rolling Stone. "Yes, I'll get it out for the movie. By February 25th, there will be a Dream Widow record." He added that the album draws on his days as a "fucking '80s thrash metal kid," inspired by bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Kyuss and Trouble.
There's even a 15-minute metal epic consisting of multiple suites, called "Lacrimus dei Ebrius."
"It's like, 'The Tears of God' or something like that; I don't speak Latin," Grohl told Exclaim! in a recent interview.
He continued:
The director said, "Hey, we need a really long instrumental. Could you do that?" I was like, "Okay." I went down to the studio and I had all of these heavy riffs that I'd banked over the years on my computer. I just put, like, nine of them together to make this 15-minute-long song, and that's what you hear in the film. And so we're working on how it's going to be released. It's like nine songs thrown together in this one big thing, and it's doom metal and then it's thrash metal and then it's fucking acoustic.
You can hear a taste of what's to come with Dream Widow's "March of the Insane," which the artist quietly released earlier this week. It's anything but quiet, and you can listen to it below.
It's all a natural follow-up to Foo Fighters' stint as Bee Gees cover band the Dee Gees. The band — performing as themselves — also announced 10 new Western Canadian tour dates this week.
No, but really. Coinciding with the premiere of Foo Fighters' Studio 666 horror film next Friday (February 25), the song-and-dance man will release an album recorded under the moniker Dream Widow.
The fictional band is a central plot point in the movie, which sees the Foos recording their album Medicine at Midnight in a haunted mansion.
"I wind up finding this creepy basement," Grohl explained to Howard Stern earlier this week. "And I go into the basement, I find this tape by a band [Dream Widow] from 25 years ago that recorded there. And there's this song that, if recorded and completed, the fucking demon in the house is unleashed, and then, whatever, all hell breaks loose."
The musician is upping the ante by deciding to release Dream Widow's "lost album" in time for the Studio 666 release.
"I mean, I work fast, but fuck, this deadline is going to kill me," Grohl told Rolling Stone. "Yes, I'll get it out for the movie. By February 25th, there will be a Dream Widow record." He added that the album draws on his days as a "fucking '80s thrash metal kid," inspired by bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Kyuss and Trouble.
There's even a 15-minute metal epic consisting of multiple suites, called "Lacrimus dei Ebrius."
"It's like, 'The Tears of God' or something like that; I don't speak Latin," Grohl told Exclaim! in a recent interview.
He continued:
The director said, "Hey, we need a really long instrumental. Could you do that?" I was like, "Okay." I went down to the studio and I had all of these heavy riffs that I'd banked over the years on my computer. I just put, like, nine of them together to make this 15-minute-long song, and that's what you hear in the film. And so we're working on how it's going to be released. It's like nine songs thrown together in this one big thing, and it's doom metal and then it's thrash metal and then it's fucking acoustic.
You can hear a taste of what's to come with Dream Widow's "March of the Insane," which the artist quietly released earlier this week. It's anything but quiet, and you can listen to it below.
It's all a natural follow-up to Foo Fighters' stint as Bee Gees cover band the Dee Gees. The band — performing as themselves — also announced 10 new Western Canadian tour dates this week.