With
nearly four years in the making, Dave Grohl’s eagerly awaited
metal project PROBOT has finally seen the light of day. Call
it a flash back; call it a self-indulgent claim to still being
heavy. Call it what ever you like but enjoy it all the same.
Grohl
has some how gotten together eleven of eighties best underground
vocalists from such heavy weight bands as Voi Vod, Corrosion
of Conformity, D.R.I., Motorhead, Celtic Frost, Trouble, Sepultura,
Venom, King Diamond, Napalm Death, and The Obsessed. With
Grohl playing most of the music it’s hard to believe that
this is the same guy who made the FOO FIGHTERS a house hold
pop rock name but all the same it rocks hard. Reminding me
of mix tapes I used to make as a kid, PROBOT plays like a
educational lesson in the roots of metal and hard core and
how it was meant to be played, hard, fast, and heavy. After
many times of listening to this album I have yet to find a
stand out track or at that matter any lack luster tracks that
seem easy to set a side as throwaways. It’s nice to see that
many of these artists even gave Dave the chance to incorporate
them into what must have seemed like a very hard pitch from
the beginning. Who could have ever imagined Venom’s Cronos
or Celtic Frost’s Tom G. Warrior accepting an invitation to
play with a member of the Foo Fighters on what must have sounded
like career suicide from the beginning.
To
all the fans of the Foo Fighters, this most likely wont have
any appeal but for the skeptical metal heads it should be
given a chance. Kudos goes out to Dave Grohl for letting the
independent label Southern Lord handle the release so as not
to have Dave’s name plastered on the cover. In all respects,
PROBOT rocks harder then ever imagined.
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