Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl Talks Parting Methods With Josh Freese

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is talking for the primary time about parting methods with drummer Josh Freese. Freese was let go in 2025 with out rationalization, which left followers trying to find solutions about his sudden departure.

Now, Grohl is addressing the change within the band’s lineup earlier than the discharge of Foo Fighters’ twelfth studio album.

In an interview on “The Zane Lowe Present,” Grohl addressed a subject that has lengthy intrigued followers: Freese’s departure from Foo Fighters. The drummer joined the band in 2023 and parted methods with them two years later.

Grohl was all reward for Freese, describing him as a “consummate skilled” who has in depth expertise, working with the likes of Michael Bublé, The Offspring, Weezer, Elegant, and 9 Inch Nails. The choice to let go of him, based on Grohl, got here after a number of months of speaking about Foo Fighters’ route as a band.

The band members then referred to as Freese, telling him that they had been searching for a brand new drummer. The choice boiled right down to Freese allegedly expressing that he did not join with the band’s music. “I believe Josh stated it greatest when he was like, you understand, he did not really feel our music actually resonated with him, and that is actually vital, proper?” Grohl stated.

Freese joined the Foo Fighters in Could 2023, just a little over a yr after the loss of life of drummer Taylor Hawkins. As beforehand reported by The BlastHawkins died of cardiovascular collapse whereas the band was on tour in March 2022.

It was a devastating loss, and persevering with the band was “difficult,” as Grohl stated, since, regardless of having labored with 4 drummers, Hawkins was with Foo Fighters for 25 out of their 30 years within the trade.

“Persevering with on after Taylor was actually difficult, not only for us, however for any drummer that was going to return in to love, you understand, fill his sneakers,” Grohl defined.

Freese carried out with the Foo Fighters throughout tribute concert events to Hawkins earlier than being publicly introduced because the band’s new drummer.

The Foo Fighters launched the album “However Right here We Are” in 2023, however the recording was already accomplished by the point Freese formally joined the band. As a substitute, Grohl carried out the drum tracks on the album.

Freese went on tour with the band, which Grohl stated went nicely. “We had such a blast, we had a good time. It was like a yr and a half of touring, and the exhibits had been nice,” he defined.

It was after that tour, nevertheless, that the band took the time to evaluate the route they needed to take, in the end deciding to interchange Freese with a distinct drummer.

In Could 2025, Freese posted on social media, asserting that he had been let go from the Foo Fighters, claiming that he wasn’t given a cause for the choice. Freese, who has been a drummer for many years, stated he had “by no means been let go” in his profession.

He additionally expressed his shock and disappointment, however stated he wasn’t indignant. Freese wrote, “Regardless, I loved the previous two years with them, each on and off stage,” including that he helps the choice to do what’s greatest for the band.

In an interview with Fashionable drummer in February, Freese talked about his firing, however did not go into element for worry of his phrases getting “taken out of context.” He did, nevertheless, say that he has “rather a lot to say” about it, however he nonetheless has to determine how and when to greatest say his piece.

Regardless of being let go, he stated he loved Grohl as a bandleader, praising the Foo Fighters for being “beneficiant” and “good” to him throughout his tenure.