“I don’t want to give away too much, but… we’re, like, right in the middle of it right now” said Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl, followed by the statement that the new album is going to be, and I quote, “fucking weird.”
Chatting with Eric Blair, host of the Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show, Grohl kept tight-lipped for the most part but offered a mere two words to best describe how the band’s 10th studio album is going to sound.
Asked how it’ll differ from 2017’s Concrete and Gold, he replied: “You’ll hear. It’s fucking weird.”
Although Blair tried to get as much information from the frontman as he could, Grohl cemented that he would remain tight-lipped for now, saying “I don’t want to give away too much, but… we’re, like, right in the middle of it right now.”
Grohl has been busy teasing the band’s new album ever since appearing at Brazil’s Rock In Rio festival at the end of September.
“I don’t know when we’ll be back down here again, but we will”, Grohl told the crowd. “We go home next week and we start making a new Foo Fighters record. It’s good, it’s good.”
Watch Grohl’s interview with Blair below:
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He also touched upon the interview how Ronnie James Dio has been a huge influence on him.
“Well, Holy Diver is one of the best fucking albums of all time,” Grohl began. “When I listen to records, I don’t just listen to the vocals; I don’t just listen to the drums — I listen to it as a whole.
“But an album like that, that’s kind of the perfect record. Vinny Appice’s playing on that fucking album is insane.
“As a drummer, I listen to that record and it’s, like, I don’t know if it’s composition or if that shit was just coming off the top of his head, but as a drummer, that album is incredibly inspiring and influential.
“The simplicity of something like that. That’s one of the things I’ve always loved about Dio’s music — it’s not overly complicated or orchestrated; it’s a sum of a few very simple parts, and it’s powerful. And I fucking grew up with that shit.”
