Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese says he was dismissed after two years playing with the rock band following Taylor Hawkins death.

Foo Fighters' fourth studio album One By One looks good on the surface, as "All My Life" and "Times Like These" are among the band's biggest hits, but the creation of the disc was rife with tension and there was a decision to scrap the full album and start from scratch over a two-week period at Dave Grohl's home studio in Virginia.

Josh Freese has been the drummer for Foo Fighters for almost exactly two years, having been announced in the position back in May of 2023. (Which was, in turn, a little more than a year after the death of the band’s long-time drummer,