Track Listing

1. Centuries of Sin feat Cronos
2. Red War feat Max Cavalera
3. Shake Your Blood feat Lemmy
4. Access Babylon feat Mike Dean
5. Silent Spring feat Kurt Brecht
6. Ice Cold Man feat Lee Dorrian
7. The Emerald Law feat Wino
8. Big Sky feat Tom G Warrior
9. Dictatorsaurus feat Snake
10. My Tortured Soul feat Eric Wagner
11. Sweet Dreams feat King Diamond

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20811 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-16
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
The side-project of Foo Fighters/Nirvana man Dave Grohl is a veritable who's who of 80's metal. Here Grohl has written and recorded tracks with a specific 80's rock band in mind for each, with the vocalists of the aforementioned band's singing on them. Thus collaborations with members of Motorhead,St. Vitius, Cathedral, Trouble, King Diamond, Celtic Frost,DRI, Voivoid, Venom, COC and Sepultura as well as apperances by Jack Black and Soundgarden's Kim Thayll. Released on the underground Southern Lord label.

Customer Reviews

An entertaining selection of styles and influences.
Not being a Foo fighters/ Nirvana fan I approached this album with suspicion initially. However after a weeks repeated listening it has firmly captivated and brought me back to my youth. Like many metal fans in my agegroup, bands like DRI, Voivod and Motorhead were staples of my diet growing up. Its great to hear the old voices again, especially so well produced and with such a good musician as Dave Grohl providing the backing sounds. Grohl has written each song to suit the style of the singer and this gives the album a compilation feel rather than that of a unit. In my opinion there isnt really a weak point to this album. Obvious highlights are Red War with the peerless Max Cavalera, Silent Spring with DRIs Kurt Brecht and Centuries of Sin with Cronos.
All the tracks have something to offer and have introduced me to some bands that I heard of but never sampled such as Trouble and
The Obsessed whose back catalogues I will be checking out. In this world of nu metal and lite metal this album is something to savour and proves that the originals are still the best. That in itself justifies the buying of this record. Dave Grohl take a bow.

Very, very Metal indeed
Anyone who's interested knows the story by now; Dave Grohl writes a bunch of old-school style Metal tunes and gets his favourite vocalists to sing on them. Now it's finally released though, what everyone wants to know is, does it justify the hype? Basically, yes it does. It sounds pretty much as you'd expect it to do with each vocalist's song sounding similar to his own permanant band, so 'Shake Your Blood' featuring Lemmy sounds like classic Motorhead, 'Red War' with Max Cavalera sounds like Soulfly (not Sepultura unfortunately!) and so on. As an up-to-date celebration of all things old-school Heavy Metal it works very well indeed and classic HM fans will certainly enjoy this. Personal favourite songs are those featuring Cathedral's Lee Dorian and Trouble's Eric Wagner, though in truth there isn't a weak track on it. One final note, the much-mentioned secret, hidden track featuring a 'surprise guest' vocalist is excellent, though when you find out who the special guest is, chances are you won't actually be that surprised!

A Fitting Tribute and an Excellent Album.
What an amazing career Dave Grohl has had. As a drummer and stabilising influence in Nirvana, as a songwriter and guitarist with the Foos, and again as session drummer on the Queens of the Stone Age's latest effort this is a rock star who's musical credentials are in no doubt what so ever. Apparently Dave recorded the Probot tracks for fun in his home studio and came up with the idea of drafting in seminal metal vocalists at a later stage. Given this knowledge Probot could easily have been a ludicrously bad vanity project. However, what it actually is a technically superb, affectionately retrospective metal album in the late 80's - early 90's mould. What else should we expect from a man who has done as much as anyone else on the planet to bring the 'really damn big riff' into the mainstream.

I think the most immediately apparent thing about this record is how genuine it all feels. The songs are crafted to pay tribe and not to satirise the featured artists. Although I couldn't possibly name standout tracks amongst such gems 'Shake Your Blood' with Lemmy really feels like classic era Motorhead pumped full steroids and the totally immense 'Centuries of Sin' featuring Chronos takes some vaguely Venomesque dynamics and channels them straight into an adrenaline soaked, straight ahead riff-fest. I could go on all day like this but, certainly I couldn't stop writing with mentioned that 'Ice Cold Man' with Lee Dorian is utterly excellent and a fitting counterpoint to his work with Cathedral.

The production on Probot is not so much super-modern and flawless and dirty, loud and evocative of the eras to which they pay tribute (see Red War with Max Cavelera). Finally, rather than using his no-doubt considerable swing to have Probot relased on some high profile major label Dave has done much to enhance his already astronomical credibility by releasing it on the indy label Southern Lord (and the CD comes with the labels current catalogue).

Heres to you Boyo!