Probot

Probot

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has always been an unabashed metalhead--Nirvana were heavily indebted to Black Sabbath. Now the multi-instrumentalist indulges his adolescent fantasies by inviting a slew of '80s underground metal vocalists to caterwaul their original lyrics set to a dozen Grohl-penned instrumentals. None of the results rival "Ace of Spades" or "Paranoid," but as vanity projects go Probot is a hell of a lot of skull-crushing fun. Remarkably diverse, too, from the doom-laden dirge "Ice Cold Man"--voiced by Lee Dorrian of Napalm Death--to the hardcore thrash of "Access Babylon," a collaboration with Mike Dean from Corrosion of Conformity. Mainstream music lovers will only recognize a couple of names, but the most distinctive turns come courtesy of cult artists, particularly D.R.I.'s Kurt Brecht and his blood vessel-bursting bellow on "Silent Spring," and the creepy Goth intonations of Tom G. Warrior (Apollyon Sun/Celtic Frost) on "Big Sky." --Kurt B. Reighley

Product Description
ALL RISE!!! . Probot is upon us and it's far more than anyone could have ever expected; an all-star performance record of monumental proportions. The songs on the Probot album were mostly written by Grohl. He then sent out these recordings to all of his favorite metal vocalists from a specific period of time in underground metal (83 to '90,) Each song features its own throat and Grohl also had help from a few other dudes (Kim Thayill of Soundgarden lays a blistering solo down on the King Diamond track, Bubba Dupree from Void is on the Mike Dean track. etc...) Grohl enthustiacally explains: "There are some fast tracks, the Cronos track (Centuries of Sin) is old school fast thrash metal. The Lee Dorrian track ("Ice Cold Man") is slow and has a dirge to it. The Snake track ("Dictatorsaurus") is kind of reminiscent of a old Voivod track. The King Diamond track ("Sweet Dreams") is slow. The Mike Dean track ("Access Babylon") is sort of like an old school metal hardcore-crossover song. It moves in a lot of different ways. It isnt about me; I'm just having the time of my life in fantasy camp being able to create something with these people I listened to for years when I was young." Probot is a ecletic metal compilation. Each track is its own unique entity, always potent, always compelling…. and completely metal!

Probot

Tracks:

Centuries Of Sin ( W/ Cronos / Venom)
Red War ( W/ Max Cavalera / Soulfly, Sepultura)
Shake Your Blood ( W/ Lemmy / Motad)
Access Babylon ( W/ Mike Dean / C.O.C.)
Silent Spring ( W/ Kurt Brecht / D.R.I.)
Ice Cold Man ( W/ Lee Dorrian / Cathedral / Napalm Death)
The Emerald Law ( W/ Wino / Place Of Skulls / The Obsessed)
Big Sky ( W/ Tom G. Warrior / Celtic Frost)
Dictatorsaurus ( W/ Snake / Vod)
My Tortured Soul ( W/ Eric Wagner / Trouble)
Sweet Dreams ( W/ King Diamond / Mercyful Fate)
(exclusive bonus hidden track)

Amazon.com

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has always been an unabashed metalhead--Nirvana were heavily indebted to Black Sabbath. Now the multi-instrumentalist indulges his adolescent fantasies by inviting a slew of '80s underground metal vocalists to caterwaul their original lyrics set to a dozen Grohl-penned instrumentals. None of the results rival "Ace of Spades" or "Paranoid," but as vanity projects go Probot is a hell of a lot of skull-crushing fun. Remarkably diverse, too, from the doom-laden dirge "Ice Cold Man"--voiced by Lee Dorrian of Napalm Death--to the hardcore thrash of "Access Babylon," a collaboration with Mike Dean from Corrosion of Conformity. Mainstream music lovers will only recognize a couple of names, but the most distinctive turns come courtesy of cult artists, particularly D.R.I.'s Kurt Brecht and his blood vessel-bursting bellow on "Silent Spring," and the creepy Goth intonations of Tom G. Warrior (Apollyon Sun/Celtic Frost) on "Big Sky." --Kurt B. Reighley

Album Description

ALL RISE!!! . Probot is upon us and it's far more than anyone could have ever expected; an all-star performance record of monumental proportions. The songs on the Probot album were mostly written by Grohl. He then sent out these recordings to all of his favorite metal vocalists from a specific period of time in underground metal (83 to '90,) Each song features its own throat and Grohl also had help from a few other dudes (Kim Thayill of Soundgarden lays a blistering solo down on the King Diamond track, Bubba Dupree from Void is on the Mike Dean track. etc...) Grohl enthustiacally explains: "There are some fast tracks, the Cronos track (Centuries of Sin) is old school fast thrash metal. The Lee Dorrian track ("Ice Cold Man") is slow and has a dirge to it. The Snake track ("Dictatorsaurus") is kind of reminiscent of a old Voivod track. The King Diamond track ("Sweet Dreams") is slow. The Mike Dean track ("Access Babylon") is sort of like an old school metal hardcore-crossover song. It moves in a lot of different ways. It isnt about me; I'm just having the time of my life in fantasy camp being able to create something with these people I listened to for years when I was young." Probot is a ecletic metal compilation. Each track is its own unique entity, always potent, always compelling…. and completely metal!

Album Description

For the entirety of the 21st millennium, rumors have been flying about how Dave Grohl was putting together some sort of (death)-metal band. The name Probot became an instant flashpoint for the interest of music fans the world over. The secret sleeps no longer... The divine metallic inspiration & bloody roots of Dave Grohl will now be unleashed upon the world!! Features 11 tracks including collaborations with King Diamond, Cronos (Venom), Wino (Obsessed), Lemmy (Motorhead), Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly), & other dark souls! Southern Lord. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome!.......2006-09-08

This is the best metal compilation to come out in a long time. David Grohl is very talented as a song writer as well as a drummer. His efforts with Venom, Motorhead and Celtic Frost really rock on this album. Best cuts are "Big Sky", "Ice Cold Man" and "Century of Sin".

Dave Grohl gone crazy.......2006-06-05

Here's an overview of some of the songs. Dave wrote
all the music, and all the different singers wrote the
lyrics.

2. Red war - Good riff, heavy, like it.
3. Shake your blood - Horrible. Motorheads lead singer
sings this one, worst song on the album.
4. Access babylon - Crazy song. Good one.
5. Silent spring - I liked the lyrics. The melody was
o.k.
6. Ice cold man - Very unique meloody. One of the best songs
on the album.
9. Dicatorsaurus - The chorus on here sounds like it
definitley could be a foo song.
10. My tortured soul - Not bad. Pretty good chorus.
11. Sweet dreams - Great song. Very very weird song.
11 1/2. Warlock( hidden track) Jack black sings this one.
Done more for joke.It was originally part of the tracklist,
but dave saw it didn't fit and put it as hidden. It's not
really a good song but because Jack B. sings it, it makes it good.

"Let Me into Your Sweet Dreams . . .".......2006-03-06

This sort of album is supposed to fail. Get a superstar and build a large revolving cast around him or her. Santana and Rob Thomas. Bleechhh. Herbie Hancock and Jessica Simpson. Speeww. Dave Grohl and King Diamond? Hmmmmmm . . .

Dave Grohl indulges the many metal sides to his soul and creates one hell of a rocking piece. Some people on this page complain that there aren't guitar solos galore and a bunch of triggered double-pedal work like there is on a Fear Factory album. Well, you'll notice that there is no cameo from that guy from Fear Factory here. A lot of these artists here are from the "one- bass-pedal-is-good-and-we-only-need-a-ten-second-guitar-solo" school of eighties metal. Cronos from Venom gets things going in true doom style at the beginning of the album and things hardly let up from there. Max Cavalera bellows his way through "Red War," which by the way has double bass-pedal. There are some pretty sweet time changes on this one. The only song I don't really like much here is Lemmy's "Shake Your Blood." I know Lemmy personifies all things metal and I love his other work as much as anyone else, but this song sounds like a toss-off. He could have been more metal here, for sure.

Things really range all over the metal map, which could be bad. But it's not. It's fun and extremely impressive. Like the best of metal artists, Grohl doesn't have to stick in one niche category (e.g. thrash, doom, metalcore, extreme, blah blah blah). Metal is music, making it capable of infinite permutations. D.R.I., C.O.C., Cathedral, Voivod. He rocks on all of their styles and does it convincingly. He almost goes over into hair territory with Trouble's Eric Wagner on "My Tortured Soul." Grohl makes this fun, making you raise your devil fingers to a major chord progression and melody, of all things. You could never do THIS to Warrant. Maybe you could have if Grohl was Warrant's drummer (I know, that's blasphemy . . . it's a joke, strike it from the record).

The album ends with the piece de resistance: King Diamond's "Sweet Dreams." I personally don't think that the King ever sounded any better than this. It must have something to do with Grohl's comparative restraint on the instruments. He knows how to lay down an appropriately creepy doom guitar pattern while not overpowering it with a bunch of notes. Basically, he highlights the singer on these tracks while proving way more than competent at providing the backup. This really works well with that depraved sicko King Diamond indulging his absurdly strained falsetto, "I'm crawling out of my skin,/ you've got to let me in/ to your sweet, sweet, sweet dreams."

The only thing that is missing on this album is a few more guitar solos. This is the only area where Grohl falls short musically and it shows. While I am not from the school that says every song needs a two minute solo, I could use more than a couple of good solos here. Grohl calls in the splendiferous Kim Thayil to ice Lee Dorrian's "Ice Cold Man" with some highly-processed glissandos and trills and this works wonderfully. Wino sings "The Emerald Law" while shredding his guitar within an inch of life by the middle of the song: jackpot! The rest of the album has a dearth of solos. Just a couple more would have taken this album up to near a five. The Voivod or Sepultura songs would have especially benefited from this.

The excellent production and spirited performances on this album make it far more than a period piece. This is a bunch of metal believers putting their worst/best face forward in order to put the ugliness back into rock where it belongs. Dave Grohl is merely a splendidly talented vehicle for this mission. Buy this album, but only if you want to rock in eleven different sickly sweet ways.

Rockin.......2006-01-05

Dave Grohl and Co. only killed hair metal. They didn't touch real metal. This album is a fine compilation of varied styles of metal. Standout tracks, Centuries of Sin, Red War, Shake your blood, Silent Spring.

Five stars for KING DIAMOND.......2005-11-23

KING DIAMOND IS GOD!!! *****

Sweet Dreams has got to be the coolest song
on this album. It takes me back to the days
of old- the 80s, doing my homework as I blast
King Diamond's THEM - my mom yelling in the
backgound that I am going to hell... good times...good times.

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TRACK LISTINGS

Bomber [Analog Recording, Analog Mix] "Profile Records"

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CC1WDU

Customer Reviews:

TRACK LISTINGS.......2005-11-16

DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
LAWMAN
SWEET REVENGE
SHARPSHOOTER
POISON
STONE DEAD FOREVER
ALL THE ACES
STEP DOWN
TALKING HEAD
BOMBER

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Overkill [Analog Recording / Analog Mix] [Profile Records]

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CC99OE

Product Description

[10 TRACKS:] OVERKILL / STAY CLEAN / (I WON'T) PAY YOUR PRICE / I'LL BE YOUR SISTER / CAPRICORN / NO CLASS / DAMAGE CASE / TEAR YA DOWN / METROPOLIS / LIMB FROM LIMB