No one would have blamed Dave Grohl if he’d called time on the Foo Fighters last year. The sudden, shocking death of drummer Taylor Hawkins – a man Dave called “my best friend” – in March 2022 was the kind of body blow many people would struggle to recover from. The loss of the singer’s mother, Virginia, a few months later only compounded his personal agony.
Yet the fact that he’s elected to continue the band shouldn’t really be a surprise. The Foo Fighters themselves were partly Grohl’s attempt to find a light in the darkness of the aftermath of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain’s death. But unlike the Foos’ bruised yet ultimately optimistic self-titled 1995 debut album, But Here We Are is 48 minutes of raw intensity.
