You’d think with Foo Fighters returning to the live circuit while recording a brand new studio album that prolific frontman Dave Grohl wouldn’t have time for much else – but you’d have thought wrong.
In addition to his busy 2013 promoting his Sound City rockumentary, his Grammy-winning jam with Paul McCartney in ‘Sirvana’, and playing for Queens Of The Stone Age, the prolific collaborator has reportedly helped record a studio album from a new heavy metal supergroup named Teenage Time Killer, with Grohl himself not only helping out behind the desk but getting in the booth to lend a hand on the all-star heavy project.
According to Blabbermouth:
“The instrumental parts for the upcoming debut release from Teenage Time Killer… were recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California on the famous Sound City mixing board, which was the central focus of Grohl’s acclaimed Sound City: Real To Reel documentary.
Similar to that all-star rockumentary and Probot, Grohl’s own metal super-side-project from 10 years ago, Teenage Time Killer is a dream roll-call of heavy rock, metal, punk, and hardcore artists gathered together by Mike Dean and Reed Mullin of Corrosion of Conformity.
C.O.C. vocalist Dean and guitarist Mullin (who also appeared in Grohl’s Probot) are the nucleus of Teenage Time Killer, with a who’s who of heavy rock A-listers providing a rotating backing band and the full list of artists that recorded at the Foo Fighter frontman’s studio is utterly drool-worthy
In an interview on New York radio program ‘The Goddamn Dave Hill Show‘ Mullin revealed the latest additions to the Teenage Time Killer roster. Including (*deep breath*) Grohl, Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour (who also appeared in Sound City), Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, ex-QOTSA/Kyuss member and Mondo Generator bassist Nick Oliveri, plus members of Sunn O))), Goatsnake, My Ruin, and many more.
They join previously confirmed guests such as Black Flag/OFF! vocalist Keith Morris, Soulfly’s Max Cavalera, Misfits member Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein – the list goes on and on (view the full roster below). The debut Teenage Time Killer album tracklist has expanded to 21 songs, with Dave Grohl appearing on roughly 12 songs of the set.
“Originally the idea was that we were going to do four or five songs,” explained Mullin on the radio show, as Exclaim.Ca reports, but that they “had all these other folks that want to participate.” As a result, the debut Teenage Time Killer album tracklist has expanded to 21 songs, with Dave Grohl appearing on roughly 12 songs of the set, according to the C.O.C. guitarist.
There’s no official tracklist or release date for the project yet, but Mullin premiered a taste of the record – new track ‘The Dead Hand’ – on the NY radio show (listen here, song appears at 52min mark). “It’s a very good mixture of old hardcore punk, punk and metal stuff,” says Mullin. “People are going to be pleasantly surprised. It’s pretty cool.”
Details of another track from the project first emerged last May, when an Instagram photo from Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe described his contribution to the project, guesting on an “old-school, C.O.C.-style thrash punk” track called ‘Hung Out To Dry.’
(Image: Randy Blythe with Mike Dean & Randy Mullin. Source: http://instagram.com/drandallblythe/)
Teenage Time Killer Guest List
via Blabbermouth
* Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God)
* Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
* Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
* Neil Fallon (Clutch)
* Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)
* Lee Ving (Fear)
* Tommy Victor (Prong)
* Nick Oliveri (Mondo Generator, Ex-Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss)
* Aaron Beam (Red Fang)
* Pete Stahl (Scream, Goatsnake)
* Greg Anderson (Sunn O)))), Goatsnake)
* Karl Agell (ex-Corrosion Of Conformity)
* Tairrie B. Murphy (My Ruin)
* Mick Murphy (My Ruin)
* Vic Bondi (Articles Of Faith)
* Clifford Dinsmore (Bl’ast!)
* Pat Hoed (Brujeria)
* Max Cavalera (Soulfly)
* Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste, Iron Reagan)
* Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein (Misfits)
* Keith Morris (Black Flag, OFF!)
* Phil Rind (Sacred Reich)
