#Making An Album Is Hell

The story is a tale as old as time: an established rock band (Foo Fighters, playing themselves) rents a sprawling, spooky mansion in upscale Encino to record their tenth album. The muses aren’t whispering into Grohl’s ear, but other voices do, and the singer’s writer’s block is cleared when he surrenders to the forces residing in the home. Unfortunately, bodies start stacking up as the band races to complete their album and it becomes unclear whether or not they will survive long enough to release it, let alone go on tour.

The trailer looks to be more in line with the goofy gore of “Deathgasm” and “We Summon the Darkness,” with lively characters having a good, rocking time and thumbing their noses at the satanic panickers. Anyone who has watched Grohl and bandmate Taylor Hawkins’ induction speech for Rush at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or viewed Grohl’s moving words at Lemmy Kilmister’s funeral knows just how heavily music flows through his veins. In the same sense that Jack Black and Kyle Gass bring joy to music lovers through the sheer, deafening power of rock in “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” so will the Foo Fighters in their rude mutation of “A Hard Day’s Night.” Rock and roll will never die, baby.

“Studio 666” release in theaters on February 25, 2022.