Foo Fighters marked the band’s thirtieth anniversary with the discharge of “At this time’s Music,” the group’s first new track for the reason that 2023 album However Right here We Are.
In a prolonged word to accompany the discharge, Dave Grohl pays tribute to former band members together with the just lately fired drummer Josh Freese, founding drummer William Goldsmith, guitarist Franz Stahl and, most poignantly, the late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died in 2022.
Watch the music video for the brand new track beneath.
In a portion of the letter addressed to Hawkins, Grohl, who apparently performs drums on the brand new track, writes, “Your title is spoken day by day, generally with tears, generally with a smile, however you’re nonetheless in every little thing we do, all over the place we go, eternally. The enormity of your stunning soul is barely rivaled by the infinite longing we really feel in your absence. All of us miss you past phrases. Foo Fighters will eternally embrace Taylor Hawkins in each word that we play, till we do lastly attain our vacation spot.”
The brand new track, described in a press launch because the band’s “opening salvo of its subsequent chapter,” arrives 30 years for the reason that launch of Foo Fighters self-titled debut album and is the primary new music since Grohl introduced final yr that he had fathered a daughter outdoors of his marriage and requested for his household for forgiveness.
“Through the years, we’ve had moments of unbridled pleasure, and moments of devastating heartbreak,” Grohl writes. “Moments of gorgeous victory, and moments of painful defeat,” he wrote. “Now we have mended damaged bones and damaged hearts. However now we have adopted this highway collectively, with one another, for one another, it doesn’t matter what. As a result of in life, you simply can’t go it alone.
“It ought to go with out saying that with out the boundless vitality of William Goldsmith, the seasoned knowledge of Franz Stahl, and the thunderous wizardry of Josh Freese, this story can be incomplete, so we prolong our heartfelt gratitude for the time, music, and reminiscences that we shared with every of them through the years. Thanks, gents.”
The band’s present line-up consists of Grohl (vocals and guitar), Rami Jaffee (keyboard), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (guitar) and Pat Smear (guitar). A brand new drummer has not been introduced.
Foo Fighters have scheduled 5 abroad tour dates for this fall:
Oct 2 – Jakarta, ID – Carnaval Ancol
Oct 4 – Singapore, SG – F1
Oct 7 – Tokyo, JP – Saitama Tremendous Enviornment
Oct 10 – Osaka, JP – Glion Enviornment Kobe
Nov 14 – Mexico Metropolis, MX – Corona Capital
