Probot

   
Artist: Probot

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Probot

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 11

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Dave Grohl has voiced his appreciation of heavy metal numerous times over the days, whether it be trying to convince his Nirvana bandmates to get Sepultura open shows on the In Utero duty tour or playing with the Foo Fighters aboard Slayer, Pantera, and Black Sabbath at Ozzfest 1998 in the U.K.. But he was never so exuberant around his metal regression until he issued the all-star project Probot in the former twenty-first century. As a adolescent ontogeny up in Washington, D.C., during the former '80s, Grohl and a acquaintance became interested in such (then) cult metallic element bands as Iron Maiden and Motörhead, earlier discovering a mail ordering ad for a record service of process named "Remnant of the Rainbow," which specialized in trailing down the newest releases from the metal resistance. Looking for bands that were "fast and heavy," the couplet institute their atomic number 79 mine when they heard such classics as Metallica's Stamp out 'Em All and Mercyful Fate's Melissa. From there, Grohl continued to hunt down further releases from the metal underground, which light-emitting diode to an appreciation for such groups as Trouble and Celtic Frost, even though he was performing in hardcore bands at the time.


As scarcely about any rock 'n' roll fan knows, Grohl exhausted the '90s playing with deuce of the decade's most successful alternative rock acts of the Apostles, Nirvana and the Foo Fighters. And while both acts included elements of punishing rock/metal in their sound, Grohl started to feel that he was decorous too tight linked to the more melodious english of rock 'n' roll. So when he came into some free time shortly later on the dawn of the twenty-first hundred, he constructed a contrive. Grohl began writing, playing (nearly wholly himself), and recording an album's worth of metallic element tunes that harked back to the sound of the aforesaid bands of the '80s. When it came to laying down vocals, Grohl came up with another estimate -- or else of manipulation the vocal duties himself, he would catch the singers from his front-runner alloy bands of past to lend a hand (as well as put up lyrics).


A fine design, but search down some of these MIA chaps proved quite a hard -- at least before Grohl's pal, late Chavez/Zwan guitarist Matt Sweeney, offered to lend a hand in the "location" department. Soon after, Grohl was receiving confirmations from the likes of Cronos from Venom, Snake from Voivod, Eric Wagner from Trouble, and Wino from Obsessed, as well as such more than notable names as Lemmy and King Diamond (with late Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil supply some additional riffs to the send off). Despite the project acquiring push coverage from the outset, it took a few days to last see the light of 24-hour interval, as book pronounce red magnetic tape halted its dismissal (as well as the wide-eyed fact that no major labels would institutionalize to financial support an record album showcasing cult metallic element singers of the '80s). But Grohl finally establish a taker with the indie designate metallic element pronounce Southern Lord, which issued the self-titled album (as a CD and double vinyl group record) in February of 2003.





Menhir