Queens Of The Stone Age Trail In Times New Roman With Emotion Sickness

Josh Homme-fronted desert rockers Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their long-awaited 8th studio album, In Times New Roman, which drops on 16th June. The news follows the California-based rockers announcing dates for the summer across the U.S. and Europe, including three U.K. stops in Halifax, Margate and Cardiff next month as well as a number of stops across the European festival circuit.

Queens of the Stone Age @ Wembley Arena

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age @ Wembley Arena (Kalpesh Patel)

The album was produced by Queens Of The Stone Age and mixed by Mark Rankin, and the group describe the album as “the sound of a band creating the music its own members want to hear, while giving the rest of us a sonic forum in which to congregate”. Check out the video for Emotion Sickness, the first taste of new QOTSA since 2017’s The Evil Has Landed from seventh L.P. Villains below:

Mysteriously, when this year’s Glastonbury Festival main line-up was released on 3rd March, Queens Of The Stone Age were listed in a draft and on the festival’s website before being quickly removed. Might they have been booked for a later announcement? Seems likely given they’ll be in the U.K. and playing shows around the time of the world-renowned festival! Watch this space …

Queens Of The Stone have had a constantly shifting line-up over the years, aside from the group’s frontman and are currently completed with Troy Van Leeuwen & Dean Fertita on guitars, Michael Shuman on bass, and former Mars Volta man Jon Theodore on drums.

Queens of the Stone Age @ Roundhouse - iTunes Festival 2013

Josh Homme

The tracklist for In Times New Roman is:

Obscenery
Paper Machete
Negative Space
Time & Place
Made to Parade
Carnavoyeur
What the Peephole Say
Sicily
Emotion Sickness
Straight Jacket Fitting

UK Tour Dates:

JUNE
20th – The Piece Hall, Halifax
22nd – Dreamland, Margate
23rd – Cardiff Castle, Cardiff

Live photography of Queens Of The Stone Age by Kalpesh Patel

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