Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl to unleash Dream Widow metal album
Following the premiere of 'March of the Insane' this week
Last updated 17th Feb 2022
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has confirmed he’s recorded an entire Dream Widow metal album.
Earlier this week, Foo Fighters shared a blistering song called ‘March of the Insane’ on their YouTube channel by an enigmatic band called Dream Widow.
In the Foo Fighters horror movie Studio 666, which hits UK cinemas on 25th February, 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."
After Foo Fighters released a disco album as their alter ego The Dee Gees in 2021, many Foos fans rightfully assumed that Dream Widow was another pseudonym for Foo Fighters.
However, Planet Rock later had confirmation from the band’s representatives that it definitely ISN'T a Foo Fighters release.
Now, in a fresh interview to Rolling Stone, Grohl has confirmed that there will be a full Dream Widow album landing to coincide with the Studio 666 movie.
Keeping things mysterious, Grohl didn’t reveal whether it's a new band like his early noughties metal outfit Probot, or a solo venture.
“It will be the lost album,” Grohl said. “It’ll be the album they were making before he (the singer) f---ing killed the entire band.”
Asked if the album will be released by 25th February, he replied: “I mean, I work fast, but f---, this deadline is going to kill me. Yes, I’ll get it out for the movie. By February 25th, there will be a Dream Widow record.”
Explaining the musical direction of the Dream Widow album, Grohl said 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 13-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.”
Commenting on the movie itself, Grohl said: “It’s part The Shining, part Amityville Horror, part Evil Dead. The ‘rock band film’ as a tradition seems to have disappeared.
“We’re not going for There Will Be Blood. We just want to have fun in that old tradition of rock & roll.”