Foo Fighters Tease New Single ‘Waiting On A War’

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Foo Fighters have started teasing the third single from their upcoming album ‘Medicine At Midnight’. The new single will follow previously released ‘Shame Shame’ and ‘No Son Of Mine’, and will be called ‘Waiting On A War’ (a short preview can be heard below).

Posting to Twitter today the band shared some wider meaning behind the new track, stating “As a child growing up in the suburbs of Washington DC, I was always afraid of war.”

“I had nightmares of missiles in the sky and soldiers in my backyard, most likely brought upon by the political tension of the early 1980’s and my proximity to the Nation’s Capitol.”

I had nightmares of missiles in the sky and soldiers in my backyard, most likely brought upon by the political tension of the early 1980’s and my proximity to the Nation’s Capitol.

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) January 13, 2021

Adding “My youth was spent under the dark cloud of a hopeless future.”

“‘Waiting On A War’ The new song releasing January 14th.”

'Waiting On A War'
The new song releasing January 14th.#MedicineAtMidnight pic.twitter.com/tHG1FqexVN

— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) January 13, 2021

So we can expect the new song tomorrow. Talking to NME previously, Dave Grohl talked more about the meaning of the song saying “I was taking my daughter to school and it was around the time that the US and North Korea were ramping up tensions with each other and she had seen it on the news”

“She just asked me: ‘Dad, are we going to war’? It reminded me of how I felt when I was her age, and I just thought: ‘What a fucking drag!’”

“How depressing is it that childhood could be robbed of that beauty and innocence by this dark feeling of dread? So that’s what ‘Waiting On A War’ is about.”

The band’s previous single ‘No Son Of Mine’ dropped at New Years, coming alongside a handwritten letter from the frontman that read:

“It was almost exactly a year ago that we finished recording our “new” record ‘Medicine At Midnight’, with a massive world tour planned that would have taken us around the globe celebrating our 25th anniversary as a band.”

“But, well…. you know…… so, we waited. And waited. And waited. Until we finally realized that our music is made to be heard, whether it’s in a festival field with 50,000 of our closest friends, or alone in your living room on a Saturday night with a stiff cocktail. So, the wait is over.”

“As we say goodbye (fuck you) to 2020, and flip the calendar page to 2021, let’s ring in the New Year with a new rocker, ‘No Son Of Mine’.”

The letter concludes with “Pour a drink, turn it up, close your eyes and imagine that festival field blowing up to this. Because it fucking will. Happy New Year.”

Greg Kurstin produced the new album, and also worked with the band on their previous release ‘Concrete And Gold’. The new album will be 9 tracks long and will be 37 minutes in total.

This is the tracklisting for the album:

1. Making a Fire
2. Shame Shame
3. Cloudspotter
4. Waiting on a War
5. Medicine at Midnight
6. No Son of Mine
7. Holding Poison
8. Chasing Birds
9. Love Dies Young

The new album is due out on February 5th and can be pre-ordered here.

Check out the first single ‘Shame Shame’ from the album:

Frontman Dave Grohl and Producer Greg Kurstin recently completed an eight-day Hanukkah project, which saw the duo covering songs from 8 Jewish artists.