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Probot was a heavy metal recording project led by American musician Dave Grohl, as a side project from his primary group Foo Fighters. The album was released in February 2004.
Described by Grohl as "a death metal Supernatural", the album mixes instrumentals recorded mainly by Grohl along with various metal singers he admired.
The album featured two singles: "Centuries of Sin" backed with "The Emerald Law", and "Shake Your Blood". A music video was released for the latter. Critical reception was mixed to positive, and the album was a modest commercial success globally.
After years of popularity in the alternative rock scene, Dave Grohl wanted to express his longtime passion for heavy metal music. He mentioned the catalyst of the experience being during the first leg of the tour in support of the Foo Fighters album There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), with the mellower songs making him think about the heavier bands he used to listen to.
Following the tour, Grohl went to his house in Alexandria, Virginia, to record some heavier songs in Studio 606, his home recording facility, with engineer Adam Kasper. Grohl would play with his Gibson Explorer through a small Peavey amp as he watched TV with Kasper, and once he got a riff that interested him, he would bring Kasper along to the basement, recording a drum arrangement followed by bass and guitar. Each instrumental would take about 45 minutes to complete. Grohl said that he did not intend to make an album out of the recordings – "I didn’t even call them songs because they were bare instrumentals with no intention of putting vocals on them and no direction as an actual song." After four days of recording, Grohl and Kasper had done seven tracks, with Grohl making some copies out of the master tape before labeling it Probot to distinguish from the Foo Fighters' work.
Some time later, Grohl was inspired by the Santana album Supernatural (1999), which featured veteran guitarist Carlos Santana collaborating with a variety of singers. Grohl decided to attempt collaborations with singers he had idolized. He came up with "my wish list of all of my favorite singers from this era which is '82 to '89 underground metal, and all the bands I listened to at the time: Eric Wagner from Trouble, Snake from Voivod, Cronos [from Venom], Lemmy and Wino," and started contacting the musicians, some of whom were reached by Grohl's friend Matt Sweeney given the Foo Fighters had restarted their tour. Grohl feared his fame built out of being "a stupid, middle-of-the-road, alternative-rock idiot" could drive the metal singers away, but many agreed immediately. Cronos would later explain that "I'm open for everything. And Dave's cool," detailing that Grohl's email opened with "a real fan letter" where he mentioned his longtime appreciation of Venom, and then explained about his idea of a metal album with all his metal heroes "to get something off his chest."
Seeing the positive response, Grohl brought Kasper and Sweeney back to do five more instrumental tracks and round out the project. According to Grohl, he was invited to write songs for Ozzy Osbourne's album Down to Earth (2001). When Grohl's songs were ultimately not used for Osbourne, he repurposed them for Probot where they were sung by Eric Wagner and King Diamond. Sweeney would organize the project as Grohl toured with the Foo Fighters, contacting vocalists and organizing recording sessions. Then the demo tapes were sent to the singers, each of whom was asked to come up with lyrics, record them and title the song. Cronos detailed he wrote three different versions of the song so Grohl could choose one.
On the album, Grohl teamed up with heavy metal vocalists from 1980s and 1990s bands who influenced his musical tastes while he was growing up. Similar to 1995's Foo Fighters, Grohl wrote all of the music and performed most of the instrumentation. Each track on the album features a different lead singer including Lemmy, Max Cavalera, King Diamond and Tom Warrior. Grohl described the sequencing as "like a compilation tape that I would have made as a kid."
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Probot was a heavy metal recording project led by American musician Dave Grohl, as a side project from his primary group Foo Fighters. The album was released in February 2004.
Described by Grohl as "a death metal Supernatural", the album mixes instrumentals recorded mainly by Grohl along with various metal singers he admired.
The album featured two singles: "Centuries of Sin" backed with "The Emerald Law", and "Shake Your Blood". A music video was released for the latter. Critical reception was mixed to positive, and the album was a modest commercial success globally.
After years of popularity in the alternative rock scene, Dave Grohl wanted to express his longtime passion for heavy metal music. He mentioned the catalyst of the experience being during the first leg of the tour in support of the Foo Fighters album There Is Nothing Left to Lose (1999), with the mellower songs making him think about the heavier bands he used to listen to.
Following the tour, Grohl went to his house in Alexandria, Virginia, to record some heavier songs in Studio 606, his home recording facility, with engineer Adam Kasper. Grohl would play with his Gibson Explorer through a small Peavey amp as he watched TV with Kasper, and once he got a riff that interested him, he would bring Kasper along to the basement, recording a drum arrangement followed by bass and guitar. Each instrumental would take about 45 minutes to complete. Grohl said that he did not intend to make an album out of the recordings – "I didn’t even call them songs because they were bare instrumentals with no intention of putting vocals on them and no direction as an actual song." After four days of recording, Grohl and Kasper had done seven tracks, with Grohl making some copies out of the master tape before labeling it Probot to distinguish from the Foo Fighters' work.
Some time later, Grohl was inspired by the Santana album Supernatural (1999), which featured veteran guitarist Carlos Santana collaborating with a variety of singers. Grohl decided to attempt collaborations with singers he had idolized. He came up with "my wish list of all of my favorite singers from this era which is '82 to '89 underground metal, and all the bands I listened to at the time: Eric Wagner from Trouble, Snake from Voivod, Cronos [from Venom], Lemmy and Wino," and started contacting the musicians, some of whom were reached by Grohl's friend Matt Sweeney given the Foo Fighters had restarted their tour. Grohl feared his fame built out of being "a stupid, middle-of-the-road, alternative-rock idiot" could drive the metal singers away, but many agreed immediately. Cronos would later explain that "I'm open for everything. And Dave's cool," detailing that Grohl's email opened with "a real fan letter" where he mentioned his longtime appreciation of Venom, and then explained about his idea of a metal album with all his metal heroes "to get something off his chest."
Seeing the positive response, Grohl brought Kasper and Sweeney back to do five more instrumental tracks and round out the project. According to Grohl, he was invited to write songs for Ozzy Osbourne's album Down to Earth (2001). When Grohl's songs were ultimately not used for Osbourne, he repurposed them for Probot where they were sung by Eric Wagner and King Diamond. Sweeney would organize the project as Grohl toured with the Foo Fighters, contacting vocalists and organizing recording sessions. Then the demo tapes were sent to the singers, each of whom was asked to come up with lyrics, record them and title the song. Cronos detailed he wrote three different versions of the song so Grohl could choose one.
On the album, Grohl teamed up with heavy metal vocalists from 1980s and 1990s bands who influenced his musical tastes while he was growing up. Similar to 1995's Foo Fighters, Grohl wrote all of the music and performed most of the instrumentation. Each track on the album features a different lead singer including Lemmy, Max Cavalera, King Diamond and Tom Warrior. Grohl described the sequencing as "like a compilation tape that I would have made as a kid."