Queens of the Stone Age revealed the title of their ninth studio album, Perfecth, in a bloody 90-second teaser clip built around a game of five-finger fillet. Frontman Josh Homme and guitarist and keyboardist Dean Fertita play the knife game on camera, and it turns gory when Homme stabs his own hand partway through.
A voiceover names the album and a possible September 30 release date, though the date is crossed out by the end of the clip in favor of the vaguer "coming soon." Perfecth follows the single "Easy Street," which the band debuted live on last autumn's Catacombs tour before it became a fixture of their setlists, and their eighth album, 2023's In Times New Roman....
The announcement lands in the middle of a run supporting Foo Fighters on their North American stadium tour, which opened in Toronto on August 4. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl explained the pairing by pointing back to seeing Homme's earlier band Kyuss at Seattle's Off Ramp in 1992, calling their friendship "a lifelong bond that goes far beyond the sound we've made together."
Homme used one tour stop earlier this month to push back on a venue's no-smoking policy, telling the crowd not to let a potential $10,000 fine over backstage smoking dictate what they did, a moment NME covered separately.
Perfecth's exact release date remains unconfirmed. A separate announcement from Exclaim! covered the same teaser video, and the album will join the rest of the year's rock arrivals on the release calendar once a firm date lands.
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- Ninth studio album titled Perfecth, revealed via a bloody teaser video
- Possible September 30 release date shown, then crossed out in the clip
- Currently touring North American stadiums as support for Foo Fighters
- Josh Homme pushed back on a $10,000 backstage smoking fine at an earlier tour stop
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