Foo Fighters have tapped longtime 9 Inch Nails stickman Ilan Rubin as their new drummer. In an odd twist, former Foos drummer Josh Freese is returning to 9 Inch Nails.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed by way of sources that Rubin is exiting NIN to affix Foo Fighters. Nevertheless, it’s unclear if he would be the Foos’ everlasting drummer or touring drummer.
Rubin performed with NIN from 2008 to 2009, and once more from 2013 till now. He’s the youngest dwelling musician to have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, having been included in NIN’s 2020 induction at age 32 on the time. Along with NIN, Rubin is a present member of Tom DeLonge’s band Angels & Airwaves, and has performed with Danny Elfman. He additionally recorded solo albums beneath the identify The New Regime.
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Freese, in the meantime, was let go from Foo Fighters earlier this yr, two years after filling the void left by late drummer Taylor Hawkins, who handed away in 2022. He beforehand served as NIN’s drummer from 2005 to 2008 (satirically changed by Rubin), showing on the albums Yr Zero and The Slip, and has been a member or carried out with such acts as The Vandals, A Good Circle. The Offspring, and Weezer, amongst different acts.
NIN celebrated Freese’s return with an Instagram Story publish, displaying a photograph of the drummer with the caption, “Let’s Fucking Go, @joshfreese” (see screengrab beneath).
The drummer change comes only a week earlier than NIN kick off a North American tour (tickets accessible right here).
Freese confirmed the information on WEdnesday night time (July thirtieth), writing the next on his Instagram account:
“Leaving 9 Inch Nails on the finish of 2008 was one of many hardest choices I’ve ever needed to make. My spouse and I had been anticipating our third little one, and I knew I wanted to step away from life on the highway to be residence with my household.
NIN was a band that left me strolling off stage each single night time pondering, “That was unimaginable. We completely crushed it.” And it wasn’t only a feeling, it was a certainty. That degree of depth, pleasure, and satisfaction after every present is one thing I’ve hardly ever skilled wherever
Now, being again on tour with Trent and the crew—serving to them do what they do greatest night time after night time—is one thing I’m extremely enthusiastic about. To be a part of that power once more feels superb.
If you happen to get an opportunity to catch one in every of these reveals over the subsequent sic weeks, I promise, they’re going to be completely unforgettable.
Hope to see you on the market.”
In the meantime, Foo Fighters returned with the brand new single “Immediately’s Track” at the start of this month, and can play some abroad reveals starting in October.