Dave Grohl Confirms New Foo Fighters In the Works

Dave Grohl is finally returning to his day job and has announced the Foo Fighters are heading back into the studio.  The album would mark the Foo’s seventh studio outing and first release since 2007’s Echoes, Silence and Grace.  It’s been way too long, Dave.

Rolling Stone caught up with Grohl at this years Spirit awards where he was introducing a performance by Best Documentary subjects Anvil. Grohl said that the follow-up would be produced by Butch Vig – the producer who’s responsible for such classics as Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, and Nirvana’s own Nevermind.

Grohl went on to say that the album would be recorded entirely in analog and in his garage, forgoing all the amenities of the bands cutting edge, recording complex in Northridge, California - Studio 606. The most exciting part of all of this was the family man proclaiming, “I think this could be our heaviest album yet.” Hell yeah.

Even though there is no set release date as-of-yet, in a interview with BBC 6 (also at the Spirit Awards) Grohl went on to say "…we're going to start recording in September so life is full of music.” Hopefully a Christmas release is in the cards.

Since the release of their 2007 album, the rocker has kept extremely busy, taking over drumming duties in rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Along with singer/guitarist Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stoneage) and bassist John Paul Jones (Led Zepellin), the group has been hard at work supporting their 2009 self-titled debut.The Vultures are already preparing a new album and later this month they will be rocking their support as one of the acts for Roger Daltrey's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall.

For all those nay-sayers that believe that the Foo's have gone all Tom Petty on us and are suffering from old age, here's a video of them doing some heavy lifting at Studio 606 in 2009. Suck on that Probot.