Listen: Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl unleashes blistering Dream Widow album

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has unleashed his Dream Widow thrash metal album.

In the recently released Foo Fighters horror movie Studio 666, Dream Widow are a deceased fictional band who haunt the studio and threaten the completion of Foo Fighters' new album and the very lives of the band members.

Dave Grohl previously said the Dream Widow singer “went crazy and murdered his whole band because of creative differences."

Dream Widow’s first single ‘March of the Insane’ was shared to Foo Fighters’ official YouTube channel in February and many assumed it was a pseudonym for the Foos, similar to their disco alter ego The Dee Gees.

It later transpired that it was the brainchild of Dave Grohl himself. Explaining the musical direction of the Dream Widow album, Grohl told Rolling Stone he was an “80s thrash metal kid” and he drew from a number of bands.

“I have my favourites,” Grohl said. "You’ll hear a lot of those influences in ‘Lacrimus dei Ebrius’ (a 10-minute metal song performed in the film) because for that song, I put maybe four or five of these sections together in this big, long thing.

“Some of it sounds like Trouble; some of it sounds like Corrosion of Conformity; some of it has a Kyuss vibe.”

Listen to Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow album:

Encino:

Cold:

March of the Insane:

The Sweet Abyss:

Angel With Severed Wings:

Come All Ye Unfaithful:

Becoming:

Lacrimus dei Ebrius:

Rock stars before they were famous, including Dave Grohl:

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