Anyone else check out the new CD by Grohl's side project Probot, which came out yesterday? It's basically a bunch of metal music he wrote with vocals/lyrics by these all-stars: Cronos (Venom), Kurt Brecht (DRI), Eric Wagner (Trouble), Wino (Place of Skulls/The Obsessed/Spirit Caravan, etc.), Lemmy, Max Cavalera (Soulfly/Sepultura), Tom G. Warrior (Celtic Frost/Appollyon Sun), King Diamond, Snake (Voivod), Lee Dorrian (Cathedral), Mike Dean (Corrosion of Conformity). A few of them (Lemmy, Wagner, Snake, etc.) were on Headbanger's Ball with Dave Grohl the other night, and they played the Lemmy tune, which pretty much sounds like any Motorhead tune. In fact, all the tunes wouldn't sound out of place with the singers' original bands. Grohl's just having fun playing metal, I guess. When you listen to it in its entirety, it sounds more like a cool metal compilation than one single album, but I think that was the intent. Good novelty pickup, IMHO.
I've read an interview with him and he seems to be quite knowledgeable. I would have bought the album if he had got Mille Petrozza and Schmier on it (like he originally wanted according to the interview) just to complete my Kreator and Destruction collections, but so i will probably pass it. Allthough the Lemmy track is quite good (i saw the video yesterday) i see no reason why i shouldn't spend my money on an album by a real band instead. How is the track with Tom Warrior ? Is it more old-school Celtic Frost or "Apollyon Sunish" ?
I heard he wanted the singer from Raw Power for one, too. Too bad, Kreator and Destruction kick ass. Saw 'em together back in '02 up in San Francisco. ...funny you also ask about Celtic Frost, since I saw them with Kreator in Palo Alto in '86 (after "To Mega Therion" came out). And Voivod played at that show, too (Snake also has a tune on the Probot album, and it sounds more like the newest Voivod). The Tom Warrior track sounds way more like Apollyon Sun than it does old Celtic Frost or Hellhammer. Given the groups you mention, I'd guess you'd like "Centuries of Sin" with Cronos the best; sounds more like older Celtic Frost than it does Venom. This is the only track I had heard in advance (on a free Kerrang! compilation from last year), and I hoped the whole thing would be more like this. But like I posted earlier, the disc overall is kind of like any cassette compilation one of your friends probably made you in the 80's.
Somehow I already expected that. Tom Fischer is a strange guy, i doubt that there is another metal musician who is more in denial about his past (ok, other than the guys in Pantera maybe). I listened to a 30 sec. clip on Amazon and this was the first thing i thought. Unfortunately not, i wasn't such a big metalhead in elementary school .