Two months after parting methods with Josh Freese, Foo Fighters have unveiled Ilan Rubin as their new drummer, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Rubin is leaping ship after a 16-year stint with 9 Inch Nails, for whom the prospect of an imminent, drummerless tour ran right into a handy answer: They employed Josh Freese. It’s unclear whether or not Rubin is completely aboard with Foo Fighters or only a touring member.
Although Foo Fighters are but to formally acknowledge their rent, 9 Inch Nails posted an Instagram Story picturing Freese with the caption, “Let’s fucking go.” They kick off a North American tour at Oakland Area on August 6; Foo Fighters’ subsequent dates are a tour of Asia in October.
Rubin had been touring with 9 Inch Nails since 2009, a tenure that encompassed the band’s Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame induction in 2020, wherein he was included. He has additionally drummed for Paramore, Angels & Airwaves, and Danny Elfman, amongst others. In line with a Hollywood Reporter supply, Rubin had dedicated to 9 Inch Nails by the 12 months however instructed Trent Reznor final week that he had “accepted a job with one other band.”
Foo Fighters introduced in Freese in 2023 because the successor to their late, longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins. After two years collectively, Freese introduced in Might that the band had let him go, providing no purpose past a call “to go in a distinct course with their drummer.” He added, “I’ve by no means been let go from a band, so whereas I’m not indignant—only a bit shocked and disenchanted. However as most of you already know I’ve all the time labored freelance and bounced between bands so, I’m wonderful.”
Foo Fighters launched their first monitor since his departure, “In the present day’s Tune,” this month, which got here with a observe thanking Freese for his time with the band and saying that, with out his “thunderous wizardry,” the band’s “story could be incomplete.” Their newest album, However Right here We Are, got here out in 2023; its predecessor, Medication at Midnight, gained the Greatest Rock Album Grammy one month after Hawkins’ demise.
