5. Shake Your Blood – Probot
Grohl has had many solo projects over time, especially whilst he was in Nirvana (he released a cassette tape under the pseudonym Late! called Pocketwatch in 1992), but it’s his heavy metal side project Probot that was the most phenomenal and extremely unappreciated.
Grohl wanted to express his passion for heavy metal, so after touring the Foo Fighters record There Is Nothing Left To Lose, he went to the same basement he recorded that album in to record some tracks. The way this record was produced is similar to how the first Foo Fighters record came to be; all the songs were originally instrumentals by Grohl that would usually take him 45 minutes to complete. He didn’t intend for this to be an actual record, but after being inspired by Santana’s record Supernatural, he made a wish list of underground metal singers that he idolized as a kid to have provide vocals on the record.
This culminated in a kick-ass collaboration of musicians, including: Cronos of Venom, Max Cavalera of Sepultura, Lemmy of Motorhead, Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity, Kurt Brecht of Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Lee Dorrian of Cathedral and Napalm Death, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, Wino, Tom G. Warrior of Celtic Frost, Snake of Voivod, Eric Wagner of Trouble, King Diamond of Mercyful Fate and Jack Black of Tenacious D.