Foo Fighters are teasing new music with a burning coffin
Dave Grohl and co are getting ghoulish...
Last updated 5th Nov 2020
It looks like the rock leviathan that is the Foo Fighters is stirring from its slumber, and in typical mysterious fashion...
In the early hours of 5th November, Foos released two videos on their social media channels, accompanied by the hashtag '#LPX'
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters fans in LA have spotted eery video loops showing black and white footage of a burning coffin, followed by the Foo Fighters' 'FF' logo and the letter X.
Speculating on the meaning of the X, fans have been quick to claim that it represents the 10th studio album from Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Pat Smear, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffee.
2020 has seen the band celebrating 25 years since Dave Grohl first released material under the moniker 'Foo Fighters' as a one-man project to focus on after the passing of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.
The two clips posted on their social channels start with Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins and guitarist Pat Smear's faces. They then immediately zoom into their eyes, where a pyschedelic flame pattern plays on their eyeballs, whilst two different samples of a drum / percussion track play in the background.
Watch the first video featuring Pat Smear here:
Watch the second video featuring Taylor Hawkins here:
The more guerilla videos that have set tongues wagging on Foo Fighters fan forums have appeared in locations in the band's home stomping ground of LA, where several billboards and projections of the burning coffin footage have sprung up across the city.
Fans have been quick to assign significance of the horror film style of video to the supposedly "haunted" house that Dave Grohl told MOJO magazine had been the location for their recording sessions.
The band were originally mooted to release a new album early this year as part of their 25th anniversary, having unveiled several new clips of music and the hashtag #FF25 in January 2020, a rather raucous example of which can be heard below:
However, with the escalating COVID-19 crisis, like pretty much the entire rest of the music industry, the Foos' plans quickly had to be put on hold.
Now, it seems, they've come out of their enforced hibernation and are gearing up to the much-anticipated 10th album...