Foo Fighters Reveal New Album Title: ‘Sonic Highways;’ Unveil Track List

The big announcement from the Foo Fighters has been revealed: the new album is titled Sonic Highways and it’s due out November 10th worldwide. The artwork, which had previously leaked online in lo-res, receives confirmation with each landmark coming off more prominently and the “8’s” all over the cover are much easier to pick out.

“This album is instantly recognizable as a Foo Fighters record, but there’s something deeper and more musical to it. I think that these cities and these people influenced us to stretch out and explore new territory, without losing our ‘sound’.” Explains lead singer, Dave Grohl about their latest work.

The band’s 8th album will be released in nine unique LP covers plus exclusive limited edition bundles available for pre-order at: http://bit.ly/sonic-highways. Pre-orders are available for SH on CD and 180 gram vinyl LP and that link is the only place where fans can order the specific cover(s) of their choosing. An array of limited edition bundles featuring exclusive collectibles will also be available. The vinyl album comes in an assortment of nine different covers including eight variants each themed for one of the cities in which the album was recorded: Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

Hear a preview of the new album and see the track list below.

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Produced by Butch Vig and Foo Fighters and being released in the U.S. on Roswell Records/RCA Records, Sonic Highways clocks in at just over 44 minutes and is made up of the following tracks:

1. “Something From Nothing”
2. “The Feast and the Famine”
3. “Congregation”
4. “What Did I Do?/God as My Witness”
5. “Outside”
6. “In the Clear”
7. “Subterranean”
8. “I Am a River”

Though it’s not doubling as a soundtrack album, Sonic Highways shares its title with the Dave Grohl-directed eight-episode series coming to HBO is described by Grohl as a love letter to the history of American music and it’s set to premiere this coming Friday, October 17 at 11 p.m.. For the album and series, Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear wrote and recorded one song in each of these eight cities, delving into the local musical currents: how each region shaped these musicians in their formative years, and in turn the impact those people had on the cultural fabric of their hometowns. All songs feature local legends sitting in, with every lyric written in an unprecedented experimental style: Dave held off on putting down words until the last day of each session, so as to be inspired by the experiences, interviews for the HBO series, and other local personalities who became part of the process.