Foo Fighters Share Thundering New Music Tease: ‘About to Take Flight’

The Foo Fighters look to beryllium soaring towards a caller era. The seasoned set that conscionable finished a tally of Asian dates with caller drummer Ilan Rubin teased their adjacent section connected Thursday nighttime (Oct. 16) with a 27-second teaser of what appears to beryllium an untitled, rocking caller song. The tune launches with 1 of the group’s patented wide-open, fist-pumping riffs earlier dive-bombing into a double-time conception with pounding drums and relentless, climbing guitars.

The opus is not named and nary different accusation astir it was disposable astatine property time, but the Instagram station was accompanied by a cryptic caption, “About to instrumentality flight…” arsenic good arsenic the representation of a colorful vertebrate sitting connected an amp with the FF logo successful the back. Eagle-eyed fans speculated that the yellow, bluish and greenish vertebrate mightiness person been a tease of upcoming dates successful Brazil.

At property time, however, the set has lone 2 much dates connected its 2025 roster: a brace of shows successful Mexico connected Nov. 12 — in Monterrey — and Nov. 14 astatine Corona Capital successful Mexico City. Last month, the set posted a goofy teaser video that ended with the phrase, “Stay tuned… there’s much to come!” pursuing a jokey AI-enhanced clip successful which Rubin appears to person 10 arms and pb singer/founder Dave Grohl has other fingers connected his near hand, starring fans to speculate that determination are much shows connected the horizon.

At property clip nary different accusation was disposable astir the unnamed opus and whether it is simply a one-off azygous oregon the archetypal sensation of the follow-up to their 11th album, 2023’s But Here We Are, their archetypal LP pursuing the March 2022 decease of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins. Earlier this month, the Foos released the Are Playing Where ???? Vol. 1, a Bandcamp exclusive EP that captured six performances from a drawstring of 4 underplay nine shows the set played successful September successful California, Washington, D.C. and Connecticut.

The caller drawstring of shows featured the debut of new drummer Rubin, the erstwhile Nine Inch Nails timekeeper who joined the radical this summertime aft the Foos parted ways with journeyman drummer Josh Freese, who held the spot for astir 2 years successful the aftermath of Hawkins’ death. In a uncommon stone swap, Freese past returned to his aged spot drumming for NIN.

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