For the entirety of the 21st millennium, rumors have been flying about how Dave Grohl was putting together some sort of "(death)-metal band".
The name "PROBOT" became an instant flashpoint for the interest of music fans the world over. The secret sleeps no longer...
The divine metallic inspiration and bloody roots of Dave Grohl will now be unleashed upon the world!!

A epic compilation of monumental proportions and one of the most anticipated metal albums in history. PROBOT HAS ARRIVED!!!!

PROBOT is the result of Grohl having recorded an album's worth of bone-crushing metal at his home studio, then sending individual instrumental tracks to his favorite metal vocalists from what was clearly an extremelyformative period in Grohl's past (specifically, 1983-1990) for vocals to be added.

Each song features it's own throat, with lyrics and vocal melodies written by each of thee same vokillist. All collaborators were given absolute freedom to put their own metallic stamp on the compositions. Grohl usually didn't hear what was happening to the tracks once they left his studio, and remembers the return of tapes (with the new vocal additions) as being "like Christmas morning over and over again."

Asked about the recording process, Grohl enthusiastically proclaims "It isn't about me - I'm just having the time of my life in a "metal fantasy camp" being able to create something with these people I listened to when I was young."
With the help of Matt Sweeney (Zwan/Chavez), Grohl was able to hunt down most of his favorite singers - covering a lot of metal ground in the process. "There are some fast tracks - the Cronos (of Venom) track (Centuries Of Sin) is old-school fast thrash metal", says Grohl. "The Lee Dorrian (of Napalm Death & Cathedral) track (Ice Cold Man) is slow...with a certain dirge to it, the Snake (of Voivod) track (Dictatorsaurus) is reminiscent of an old Voivod track, the Mike Dean ( of Corrosion of Conformity) track (Access Babylon) is sort of like an old school metal-hardcore crossover thing."

Indeed many of the songs come off as a perfect match for the vocalist in mind. Although the songs were not intentionally written in this manner, the combination of Grohl's instinctive song writing along with possibly the best performance of each singer makes for a definitive result. King Diamond's track ("Sweet Dreams") contains everything you could possibly want from the King. The trademark falsetto highs, haunting melody and ghostly low vibrato, its all represented. The same can be echoed about Lemmy's track ("Shake Your Blood"). A fist pounding rocker with (in addition to the vocals, of course) a special performance from the Icon of Filth himself on bass. The result is a jaw dropping fusion of Dave's' hardrock/pop sensibilities and Lemmy's undeniable iconic metal charm.

As with Lemmy's track, the Cronos and Wino songs also feature instrument-addition from the singers. Cronos adds his trademark bass from hell tone throughout "Centuries of Sin" and Wino adds a blistering, intense lead to "The Emerald Law". Additionally, Grohl enlisted a few non-vocal contributions as well...including a shredding guitar solo by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden on the King Diamond track (Sweet Dreams) as well as contributions by Bubba Dupree from Void on Access Babylon.

The first grim taste of Probot was a two-track 7", limited to a single-run of 6,666 copies. Featuring "Centuries Of Sin" with Cronos (Venom) and "The Emerald Law" with Wino (The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan). It was rabidly devoured by a ravenous horde and SOLD OUT IMMEDIATELY!

A mindblowing video for the Lemmy track (Shake Your Blood) has also now been filmed! It featured live footage of the "PROBOT-band" (featuring Wino on guitar) and 66 girls from suicidegirls.com writhing around on $10,000 worth of top-grade bondage furniture!

PROBOT's self-titled debut will be out Feb. 10, 2004. The track listing is as follows:

1. CENTURIES OF SIN ( W/ CRONOS / VENOM)
   
2. RED WAR ( W/ MAX CAVALERA / SOULFLY, SEPULTURA)
   
3. SHAKE YOUR BLOOD ( W/ LEMMY / MOTÖRHEAD) Click to download MP3
   
4. ACCESS BABYLON ( W/ MIKE DEAN / C.O.C.)
   
5. SILENT SPRING ( W/ KURT BRECHT / D.R.I.)
   
6. ICE COLD MAN ( W/ LEE DORRIAN / CATHEDRAL / NAPALM DEATH)
   
7. THE EMERALD LAW ( W/ WINO / PLACE OF SKULLS / THE OBSESSED)
   
8. BIG SKY ( W/ TOM G. WARRIOR / APOLLYON SUN / CELTIC FROST)
   
9. DICTATORSAURUS ( W/ SNAKE / VOÏVOD)
   
10. MY TORTURED SOUL ( W/ ERIC WAGNER / TROUBLE)
    
11. SWEET DREAMS ( W/ KING DIAMOND / MERCYFUL FATE)
    
12. + (exclusive bonus hidden track) //only available on streetdate with the finished commercial cds