South Africa may be one of the first regions to hear the 11-time Grammy-winning Foo Fighters' new album when they play Johannesburg and Cape Town for two nights in December.
Promoters Big Concerts also dropped a surprise - announcing that Dave Grohl & Co will be supported by English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs and local band the BLK JKs when they play at the Cape Town Stadium on December 10, and at the FNB Stadium on December 13.
This is the Foo Fighters' first time in the country - 19 years and more than 25 million worldwide record sales in.
Billboard.com reported that though the band didn't play any of the new material at this past weekend's Firefly Music Festival in Delaware, Grohl teased that they already have "eight f***ing badass songs" in the bag recorded in eight different cities while on the road.
The new album is slated for a November release, with an accompanying HBO episodic series titled Sonic Highways, directed by Grohl himself, which "documents the odyssey during which the album was recorded".
Grohl described the album as "a chronicling of a journey to unravel the fabric of our musical identity, not only the making of our most ambitious album [2013's Grammy-winning] Sound City on steroids".
The Foo Fighters are Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.
They came about when Kurt Cobain's suicide meant the disbanding of Nirvana in 1994, which led to Grohl (then Nirvana's drummer) writing and recording a demo tape under the name Foo Fighters.
The band toured clubs and released a blockbusting self-titled album in 1995.
Tickets for both shows go on sale at 9am on Thursday on the Big Concerts website and Computicket.
Prices range from R395 to R960 for the Cape Town show and from R350 to R1085 for the Johannesburg gig.
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