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\n\tOver the past four years, Foo Fighters<\/a> frontman Dave Grohl<\/a> has said very little about the emotional toll the death of Taylor Hawkins<\/a> took on the band. But in a new interview with Mojo,<\/em><\/a> Grohl is opening up.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLosing Taylor was never meant to be,\u201d Grohl told writer David Fricke. \u201cThat threw our world upside down and made me question everything about life, that it was so\u2026 It was so unfair. I still have a hard time making sense of it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the aftermath of the tragedy, Grohl poured himself into his work. \u201cI think I was afraid of silence, afraid of having to feel,\u201d he said. \u201cI could have used a bit more of the silence, a bit more of digging deeper. I never want to say music is a distraction, but I was definitely using it as a crutch for some broken limb.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Foo Fighters returned from hiatus in May 2023 with Josh Freese behind the kit. But they parted ways with him two years later,<\/a> replacing him with Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin. (In a move with almost no precent in rock history,<\/a> NIN replaced Rubin with Freese.) \u201cLooking back, it was probably more an issue with their management,\u201d Freese told the New York Times<\/em> in 2025.<\/a> \u201cIt wasn\u2019t music that I really resonated with.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tGrohl has yet to articulate exactly why they let Freese go. \u201cWe didn\u2019t make a press release, tweet anything or do interviews,\u201d he told Zane Lowe in February. \u201cWe didn\u2019t say anything. Since then, there\u2019s been a lot of talk about it, but I think Josh said it best when he was like, you know, he didn\u2019t feel our music really resonated with him, and that\u2019s really important, right?\u201d<\/p>\n