PROBOT- Probot (Album Review) Dave Grohl may be...

Mar 01, 2004 12:00 a.m. - KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment

PROBOT- Probot (Album Review)

Dave Grohl may be a grunge (god we hate that word) icon and an alt-rock hero, but deep down inside he’s still just a teenage metalhead at heart. And like every teenage metalhead, he has dreamed of making an album with hard-rock heroes like Lemmy, Cronos, Tom G. Warrior and Wino. Luckily for him, he happens to be a teenage metalhead who grew up to pound the skins for Nirvana and top the charts with Foo Fighters -- so not only will those heroes return his phone calls, they’ll line up to be part of Probot, Grohl’s new side project -solo album -tribute disc – supergroup -whatever. The formula was pretty simple: Grohl wrote, played and recorded nearly all the music in his home studio, then FedExed the tunes to his favourite ’80s metal and punk singers, who added vocals. For such a Frankensteinish approach, the results are surprisingly solid. Naturally, Motorhead’s Lemmy is the ace of spades in the pack with the brilliantly dumb riff-fest Shake Your Blood. But most of the others also rise to the occasion admirably -- Venom’s Cronos invokes the ancient demons on the chugging Centuries of Sin; C.O.C.’s Mike Dean breathes fire on the searing Access Babylon; underground metal messiah Wino unleashes his inner Ozzy on The Emerald Law; Celtic Frost’s Tom G. Warrior lets his guttural growl darken the plodding grinder Big Sky; Voivod’s Snake adds some bite to the punchy techno-metal of Dictatosaurus; and Mercyful Fate’s King Diamond mines his own unique vein of quasi-operatic insanity on the power-ballad closer Sweet Dreams. If there’s one quibble, it’s the production -- with their compressed dynamics and muddy tones, some of these tracks sound a little too much like the home-recorded demos they originally were. Next time out -- and we hope there is a next time -- Grohl should spring for some time in a real studio. After all, he’s a grunge (ugh.) icon, an alt-rock hero -- and, as of now, a heavy metal god.
Track Listing
1. Centuries Of Sin ( W/ Cronos/Venom)
2. Red War ( W/ Max Cavalera/Soulfly, Sepultura)
3. Shake Your Blood ( W/ Lemmy/Motoerhead)
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/Celtic Frost)
9. Dictatorsaurus ( W/ Snake/Voivod)
10. My Tortured Soul ( W/ Eric Wagner/Trouble)
11. Sweet Dreams ( W/ King Diamond/Mercyful Fate)

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