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Probot
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 22 votes
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Album Info
Label: Southern Lord
Release Date: 10 February 2004
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Metal, Alternative, Rock
Summary
Probot is the all-star metal band founded by Nirvana/Foo Fighters drummer Dave Grohl and fronted by a variety of singers, including King Diamond, Max Cavalera (Sepultura), and Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead).
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What The Critics Said
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Stylus Magazine
There is a clear passion and enthusiasm in Grohl’s instrumentals and a potency and power in the performance of every singer.
Read Full Review >Splendid
Not only has Grohl released a fantastic album, he has done a wonderful job giving several aging metal vocalists another fifteen minutes of fame.
Read Full Review >Spin
Grohl wrote the riffs, and he hammers like a god, letting his hero singers write the lyrics and man the bellows. [Mar 2004, p.91]
E! Online
Not for the weak (or for Foo fans, really), this is some heavy hard-core stuff that's supernaturally superb.
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
This album is proof that his talent extends far beyond grunge and pop-rock and that he can write and play songs in just about any style.
Read Full Review >Blender
Unlike similar records... this has a unity of aesthetic purpose, a competitive wallop, even (kind of) a seriousness. [Mar 2004, p.127]
Mojo
Most of which 'works', all of which comes thick with a sense of joy and love for the denim and leather. [Mar 2004, p.106]
Rolling Stone
The year's first great metal album. [19 Feb 2004, p.67]
Billboard
The set is best taken as a hardcore thrash scrapbook that immortalizes how Grohl spent some of his downtime from Foo Fighters: It has captured the memory and fierce emotion instead of being concerned with structure.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
The most disappointing aspect of Probot is that many of the songs sound more like Foo Fighters turned to eleven than actual metal.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
It's a righteous and wholly legitimate throwback to old-school metal's power and fury.
Read Full Review >ShakingThrough.net
Musically, this is as solid a hard-rock offering as fans of Motorhead and obscure Swedish crunch fans could ask for. Lyrically, however, Probot is a different story.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
Hard and heavy, Probot is a first-rate recreation of the soundtrack of Grohl's bong-inhaling youth in all its unrelenting, doomy, gloomy glory. [20 Feb 2004, p.63]
Austin Chronicle
From the opening rally cry of Venom's Cronos ("Centuries of Sin") to the eerie creep of King Diamond's closing "Sweet Dreams," Probot pulls itself up by its pewter bootstraps and shatters glass with undefeatable vocals.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
His drumming is brilliant, as always, but the melodies leave the singers little to work with, and his guitar riffs sound weak and sludgy, often mired in tuned-down, nu-metal muck.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
For better or for worse, Grohl replicates each band's musical style with remarkable accuracy. [Mar 2004, p.98]
Q Magazine
Isn't for the meek. [Mar 2004, p.110]
Village Voice
There is some entertainment value in Probot. The manufactured praise accompanying Grohl, supplied by a corps of pro fuglemen who lead and escort the illustrious on his vanity venture, is grand.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mike J gave it a10:
My favorite Metal Album, it rocks!
Hein gave it a7:
"The most disappointing aspect of Probot is that many of the songs sound more like Foo Fighters turned to eleven than actual metal." Pitchfork don't understand a thing about ROCK again. It's just a feel good metal record that DOESN'T sound like the Foo Fighters.
J Case gave it a 9:
I don't think I've enjoyed a metal album more upon first hearing it than Probot since I first put Master of Puppets in the CD player. Grohl is amazing.
no one gave it a 6:
hidden track artist = Jack Black of Tenacious D
David E T gave it a 9:
Thought I was in high school again. This album is the best non-Slayer real metal I have heard in years. Thanks Grohl-sch
godHeadstyle XXX gave it a 10:
every fan´s dream...tankx dave!
Nero v gave it a 10:
awsome just wish i knew who the hidden track was.
