After weeks of teasing new material through cryptic website updates and live hints, Foo Fighters have officially announced their 12th studio album. Your Favorite Toy arrives April 24 via Roswell Records and RCA Records.
The band released the album’s title track today, describing it as the creative spark that shaped the project’s overall direction. Frontman Dave Grohl said in a statement that “Your Favorite Toy” was “the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album,” adding that the song emerged after more than a year of experimenting with different sounds and dynamics. “It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record,” Grohl said. “It feels new.”
Your Favorite Toy follows 2023’s But Here We Are, which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200. That album marked the band’s first full length release after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in 2022, with Grohl handling the majority of the drum work in the studio.
The new record is the first Foo Fighters album to feature drummer Ilan Rubin, who joined the band in 2025 following the departure of Josh Freese. Rubin made his live debut during a series of surprise club shows that year and has since appeared in the band’s touring lineup alongside Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, and Rami Jaffee.
The album was co produced by the band and Oliver Roman. According to previously released information, Roman also engineered the sessions, with mixing handled by Mark “Spike” Stent.
In addition to the title track, Your Favorite Toy includes the previously released singles “Asking For A Friend” and “Unconditional.” “Asking For A Friend” first surfaced in 2025, while “Unconditional” was performed live in summer 2024 before the band stepped away from touring following Grohl’s public acknowledgment that he had fathered a child outside his marriage.
Tracklist
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Caught In The Echo
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Of All People
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Window
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Your Favorite Toy
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If You Only Knew
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Spit Shine
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Unconditional
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Child Actor
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Amen, Caveman
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Asking For A Friend
The announcement lands ahead of a busy international tour schedule. Foo Fighters are set to appear at Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach on May 8 and BottleRock Napa Valley on May 23. A European stadium run begins June 10 in Oslo, with additional dates in Stockholm, Warsaw, Munich, Paris, Liverpool, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Madrid, and Oeiras.
A North American stadium leg kicks off August 4 in Toronto. The band has also scheduled Australian shows in November, followed by a New Zealand date in January 2027.
On August 22, Foo Fighters will perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert is billed as a special orchestral collaboration drawing from the band’s catalog, pairing their material with arrangements performed by one of the country’s leading symphonies.
More than three decades into their career, Foo Fighters continue to operate at stadium scale while revisiting the restless experimentation that has marked much of their catalog. If Grohl’s description is any indication, Your Favorite Toy is positioned less as a victory lap and more as a reset, a recalibration sparked by a single track that set the tone for everything that followed.
