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| Artist: Probot
Label: Southern Lord
Category: Music
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 14826
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 30
UPC: 808720003024
EAN: 0808720003024
ASIN: B00012M5S2
Release Date: February 16, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Centuries of Sin feat Cronos | | • | Red War feat Max Cavalera | | • | Shake Your Blood feat Lemmy | | • | Access Babylon feat Mike Dean | | • | Silent Spring feat Kurt Brecht | | • | Ice Cold Man feat Lee Dorrian | | • | The Emerald Law feat Wino | | • | Big Sky feat Tom G Warrior | | • | Dictatorsaurus feat Snake | | • | My Tortured Soul feat Eric Wagner | | • | Sweet Dreams feat King Diamond |
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 A Fitting Tribute and an Excellent Album. February 18, 2004
Mr. SCM Bell (UK)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
What an amazing career Dave Grohl has had. As a drummer and stabilising influence in Nirvana, as a songwriter and guitarist with the Foos, and again as session drummer on the Queens of the Stone Age's latest effort this is a rock star who's musical credentials are in no doubt what so ever. Apparently Dave recorded the Probot tracks for fun in his home studio and came up with the idea of drafting in seminal metal vocalists at a later stage. Given this knowledge Probot could easily have been a ludicrously bad vanity project. However, what it actually is a technically superb, affectionately retrospective metal album in the late 80's - early 90's mould. What else should we expect from a man who has done as much as anyone else on the planet to bring the 'really damn big riff' into the mainstream.pI think the most immediately apparent thing about this record is how genuine it all feels. The songs are crafted to pay tribe and not to satirise the featured artists. Although I couldn't possibly name standout tracks amongst such gems 'Shake Your Blood' with Lemmy really feels like classic era Motorhead pumped full steroids and the totally immense 'Centuries of Sin' featuring Chronos takes some vaguely Venomesque dynamics and channels them straight into an adrenaline soaked, straight ahead riff-fest. I could go on all day like this but, certainly I couldn't stop writing with mentioned that 'Ice Cold Man' with Lee Dorian is utterly excellent and a fitting counterpoint to his work with Cathedral.pThe production on Probot is not so much super-modern and flawless and dirty, loud and evocative of the eras to which they pay tribute (see Red War with Max Cavelera). Finally, rather than using his no-doubt considerable swing to have Probot relased on some high profile major label Dave has done much to enhance his already astronomical credibility by releasing it on the indy label Southern Lord (and the CD comes with the labels current catalogue).pHeres to you Boyo!
Rock on! November 3, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album rocks! There's no other way of describing it really, although it's safe to say this isn't for fans of the Foo Fighters, it's for crusty old Venom fans like me. There are no waek points on this album, although my favourite tracks are Centuries of Sin, Red War, Ice Cold Man and The Emerald Law.pIf you're a foo fighters fan, you should buy it to discover Dave Grohl's influences and get a taste of what Metal really is (as opposed to pu-metal skate board happy pop punk pants)and if you're a metal fan you'll have no exuse for not buying it.
Pure Metal At Its Best February 21, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an incredible album, this is Dave Grohl's best ever side-projects which brings in metals best vocalist's(Cronos,Venom/Max Cavalera,Soulfly/Lemmy/Motorhead,King Diamond,Mercyful Fate ETC)there all good songs especailly Red War by Max Cavalera/Probot, Shake The Blood by Lemmy/Probot and Centries Of Sin by Cronos/Probot, this is a fantastic album from rocks beloved Dave Grohl and this may get more people listening to metal because of Dave Grohl but anyway BUY IT because its a great album and worth your money.
Simply excellent. February 17, 2004
C. Verspeak (London)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This album has been a long time in coming. I think I first heard the rumours last summer. And the wait was worth it.pWorking alongside (figuratively speaking as Grohl was never actually in the studio with most of the singers) some of the heroes of metal, Dave Grohl has put together a blinder of a CD.pI remeber metal being really unfashionable in the late eighties/early nineties. Hair bands had ruined the genre's image, despite groups like Mr Big, Europe and Van Halen really having very little in common with most of the bands represented on this album.pGuys with leathers, denim, long hair, and COC posters on their walls were laughed at and shunned by the 'cool' folks.pBut cream rises to the top.pEvery song rocks - a testament to Grohl's versatility, seeing as he wrote all the music and plays nearly all the instruments.pEach singer sounds like they thought they were recording their last ever song and just went for broke. pThis album has been touted as some sort of 80's showcase. But in reality I think it shows how relevant singers from decades ago still are today.pTo be truthfull I had never heard of some of the guest vocalists, but some I have. Lemmy, Max Cavalera, King Diamond, and Cronos are well known and the first two at least are still performing and recording new work. So these 'relics' are in fact contemporaries of Grohl.pI have heard the death of metal proclaimed several times in my thirty years - and it still hasn't come. I've seen various forms of dance - acid, trance, jungle, etc., come and go. But metal, real metal, not hair, is still going and growing.pWhen today's fashionable rockers (eg The Darkness) have wasted away, the real rockers will still be recording and entertaining.pThe songs do lean towards the dark side of metal - lots of vampires, war, destruction etc. But this is a fun album - men doing the thing they love, for fun, not for fame. The sense of humour may not be apparent to the uninitiated, but it is there (just listen to the excellent 'Warlock' track featuring man of the moment and frequent Grohl-collaborator Jack Black at the end for proof of that).pDon't buy this album thinking it will be a nostalgic trip into the past. Buy it to hear real musicians with stamina and ability and a belief in what they are doing that lasts much longer than a table at the Brits.
Probot. February 24, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely brilliant!! can't say enough how good this album is. if you like rock / (light)metal this is a must have. pOnly downside is that it's not as 'heavy' as you'd hope in some places.
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