The instant the blade came down, Josh Homme's palm was sliced open. In this 90-second teaser, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman and guitarist/keyboardist Dean Fertita play a game called "five-finger fillet" — where a knife darts rapidly between spread fingers, testing speed and nerve. Fertita is clearly a veteran at it, but Homme couldn't hold steady, driving the blade straight into his own palm.
Before the game begins, Fertita asks Homme when the new album is coming out. Homme replies, "September 30th, I think." The scene then descends into bloody chaos, with a voiceover adding: Queens Of The Stone Age's new album "Perfecth," out September 30. But at the very end of the video, that date gets crossed out with a single stroke. September 30 actually falls on a Wednesday, while new albums typically drop on Fridays — a contradiction that perhaps echoes the teaser's own title, "Coming…soon?", a declaration hedged with a question mark, refusing to commit.
This marks Queens Of The Stone Age's ninth studio album and their first new music since 2023's "In Times New Roman…". The album's first single, "Easy Street," was released earlier, accompanied by an equally blood-soaked music video. The track, with its psychedelic swagger, made its live debut last fall during the band's "Catacombs" tour and has since become a setlist staple, picking up a solid following among fans.
Queens Of The Stone Age is currently serving as the opening act for Foo Fighters on their "Take Cover" stadium tour across North America, with the two bands having already kicked things off in Toronto on August 4. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has said the tour came together to honor his "lifelong friendship" with Homme — recalling how he first met Homme in 1992 at Off Ramp in Seattle, watching the legendary band Kyuss perform, with that "Blues for the Red Sun" album becoming the soundtrack to that summer. Thirty-three years later, the two have shared plenty of unforgettable musical moments together. During the tour, Homme also blew up on stage over a venue's no-smoking policy, complaining that lighting up backstage could result in a $10,000 fine (roughly NT$310,000), bluntly saying, "Don't let these corporate bastards tell you what to do."
The tour continues through September, with the exact release date for "Perfecth" still pending official confirmation from the band.
