Today, legendary producer Butch Vig took to Twitter to announce that the new Foo Fighters album has finally been completed, and declares the finished product to be “EPIC!!!” The as-of-yet untitled album will be the Foo Fighter’s eighth overall, the first since 2011’s Wasting Light. It is slated for release in November.
The album was recorded in various recording studios across the country and features guest musicians from each city the band visited, including Gary Clark Jr. in Austin, the Eagles’ Joe Walsh in Los Angeles, and Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen in Chicago. Other cities that the band recorded in include Nashville, Seattle, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, DC. Some of the album’s rumored collaborators include Carrie Underwood, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, and Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes.
The album’s unusual recording process will be the subject of an HBO series titled Foo Fighters Sonic Highways, which is set to debut in October. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, singer Dave Grohl explained how he balanced the filming of the series with the recording of the album, and how it influenced his songwriting process. “We’d get there, start recording, and I would just run around town filming and interviewing as many people as I can,” says Grohl. “At the end of the week, I’d take all of my transcripts, put them on the floor, sit there with a pen and my journal and I reduce all of these stories into a song. I take from peoples' backgrounds, anecdotes, the environment — it’s like reporting.”
Check out Butch Vig’s tweet about the album’s completion right here:
We are officially done with the new Foo Fighters album. 23 straight days mixing! IT'S EPIC!!!
— Butch Vig (@butchvig) July 30, 2014
