Foo Fighters release new song to mark 30th anniversary of band's debut

Foo Fighters are celebrating the day of an aged medium with the merchandise of a caller song.

Nearly 30 years to the time aft Dave Grohl’s stadium-filling stone set dropped its self-titled debut connected July 4, 1995, the radical connected Wednesday revealed “Today’s Song,” its archetypal portion of archetypal worldly since 2023’s “But Here We Are” LP, which itself followed the decease of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins successful 2022.

“I woke contiguous screaming for alteration / I knew that I must,” Grohl sings implicit a subdued organ part, “So present lies the shadiness / Ashes to ashes, particulate into dust.” Later, the frontman sings astir “waiting for idiosyncratic to repair you” arsenic the opus explodes with the band’s signature guitar theatrics and bludgeoning drums.

In a statement, Grohl, 56, said, “Over the years, we’ve had moments of unbridled joy, and moments of devastating heartbreak. Moments of beauteous victory, and moments of achy defeat. We person mended breached bones and breached hearts. But we person followed this roadworthy together, with each other, for each other, nary substance what. Because successful life, you conscionable can’t spell it alone.”

Referring to erstwhile members of the band, helium added, “It should spell without saying that without the boundless vigor of William Goldsmith, the seasoned contented of Franz Stahl, and the thunderous wizardry of Josh Freese, this communicative would beryllium incomplete, truthful we widen our heartfelt gratitude for the time, music, and memories that we shared with each of them implicit the years. Thank you, gentlemen.” (Freese, who took implicit arsenic drummer pursuing Hawkins’ death, was fired from the set successful May for reasons he’s said stay chartless to him.)

“And... Taylor,” Grohl continued. “Your sanction is spoken each day, sometimes with tears, sometimes with a smile, but you are inactive successful everything we do, everyplace we go, forever. The enormity of your beauteous psyche is lone rivaled by the infinite longing we consciousness successful your absence. We each miss you beyond words. Foo Fighters volition everlastingly see Taylor Hawkins successful each enactment that we play, until we bash yet scope our destination.”

A spokesperson for Foo Fighters declined to specify who played drums connected “Today’s Song,” though the playing recalls Grohl’s enactment connected the band’s debut, which helium recorded arsenic a one-man band, and arsenic the drummer of Nirvana. Earlier this week, Foo Fighters released a screen of Minor Threat’s early-’80s hardcore classical “I Don’t Wanna Hear It,” which the set said combined euphony recorded successful 1995 with vocals recorded successful 2025.

“Today’s Song” comes little than a twelvemonth aft Grohl — who has 3 daughters with his wife, Jordyn Blum — wrote successful an Instagram station that he’d fathered a girl with a pistillate extracurricular of his marriage.

“I program to beryllium a loving and supportive genitor to her,” helium wrote. “I emotion my woman and my children, and I americium doing everything I tin to regain their spot and gain their forgiveness.” Grohl’s oldest daughter, 19-year-old Violet, performed Nirvana’s “All Apologies” with Nirvana’s surviving members astatine January’s FireAid concert; his second-oldest daughter, Harper, designed the azygous artwork for “Today’s Song.”

Foo Fighters are scheduled to play a bid of concerts successful Asia successful October earlier headlining Mexico City’s Corona Capital festival successful November.