{"id":44297,"date":"2026-08-26T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=44297"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T23:18:58","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-ninth-studio-album-perfecth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2026\/08\/queens-of-the-stone-age-announce-ninth-studio-album-perfecth\/","title":{"rendered":"QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE announce ninth studio album Perfecth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Credit: Andreas Neumann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Queens of the Stone Age<\/strong>\u00a0have always remained enduringly, singularly magnetic. It isn’t just their sound. It’s their spirit. They are provocative in the most essential sense: unafraid to explore the dark, the sexual, the surreal, the absurd. It’s art that snarls and seduces in equal measure, and never more so than on the band’s ninth album,\u00a0Perfecth<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, due\u00a0Friday 30th<\/strong>\u00a0October<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Matador Records \/ Remote Control Records.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Out today is latest single\u00a0‘Insignificant Other,’\u00a0<\/strong>which could be considered the album’s centerpiece. It’s the second of only two takes and captures the quintet playing loose and unguarded and making space for one another on the fly.\u00a0“It’s a song about distance,”\u00a0<\/em>says frontman Joshua Homme.\u00a0“About how someone can be your entire world only to simply vanish. And about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The album announcement is accompanied by a\u00a0Chapman Baehler<\/strong>-directed video starring\u00a0Big Chongus\u00a0<\/strong>as the embodiment of “perfecth.” Joined by the goodest boys and girls Ruby Homme, Max Homme, Pumpkin Van Leeuwen, Isabella Puppolini (Izzy) Van Leeuwen and Reesa Shuman, watch\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to find out if Big Chongus finds the perfect home. You can also watch the now infamous Five Finger Filet teaser that announced the date the album would NOT be released\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Produced by Homme and band member\u00a0Michael Shuman<\/strong>,\u00a0Perfecth<\/em>\u00a0will be available on CD, Standard Black Vinyl everywhere, on Clear Vinyl at Indie Retailers and as a limited Deluxe Edition \u2014 a gatefold LP package which includes handwritten lyrics, stationary, ‘stamps’ housed inside a custom envelope as well as a bespoke piece of art temporarily placed in a custom pocket \u2014 exclusively on the QOTSA and Matador webstores. Pre-order is available\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kintsugi \u2014 the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold \u2014 holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. This is the spirit in which\u00a0Perfecth<\/em>\u00a0was made. An album that could only have been made right now thanks to\u00a0Homme<\/strong>,\u00a0Troy Van Leeuwen<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael Shuman<\/strong>,\u00a0Dean Fertita<\/strong>, and\u00a0Jon Theodore<\/strong>\u00a0taking significant evolutionary steps as a collective and arriving at hard-won clarity, its nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others both significant and insignificant. The loves that break you beyond survival and the loves that put you back together.<\/p>\n

Birthed from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. Here, Queens have moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment. “Every song sounds like it’s from a different world<\/em>,” says Homme. “And that’s on purpose, because it’s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The record is called\u00a0Perfecth<\/em>\u00a0because “perfect,” as a word, has never been honest. It doesn’t exist. So, Homme broke the word and made it “perfecth,” a more appropriate spelling for a term that never felt right to begin with. “Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth’,<\/em>” he explains. “And that title is funny when you’re in a group, but it ain’t so funny when you’re alone<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

While fans await the new album, they can air their gripes and grievances, moans and groans, chagrin’, carpin’, and any judgements they wish to pass via the official Queens of the Stone Age Complaint Hotline at +1 (760) 437-1966. Callers may even find a live ear at the other end of the line.<\/p>\n

The Complaint Hotline opened following Queens of the Stone Age’s rapturously received new single\u00a0‘Easy Street\u00a0(feat. Nikki Lane)’<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Debuted live last year during their lauded Catacombs tour and eagerly awaited by fans, it was the band’s first new music since 2023’s\u00a0In Times New Roman…<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Homme also released high-profile collaborations with Shania Twain on her new single ‘Faded Blue Jeans’ and added guest vocals to Mastodon’s latest rocker,\u00a0 ‘Snakes for Dinner.’<\/p>\n

Queens of the Stone Age resume their North American stadium tour with Foo Fighters on Sept. 15 and also recently announced a fall headline run in\u00a0Australia<\/strong>,\u00a0New Zealand<\/strong>, Japan and Singapore. 2027 headline shows will be announced in the coming weeks. Sign up at\u00a0qotsa.com<\/a>\u00a0to be the first to receive updates.<\/p>\n

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
\nAUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2026<\/strong>
\nWith special guests Primus and Tropical Fuck Storm
\nPresented by Double J\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday 8 December – The Drive, Adelaide
\nFriday 11 December – MyState Bank Arena, Hobart
\nSunday 13 December –\u00a0Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
\nTuesday 15 December –\u00a0Afterpay Arena, Sydney
\nWednesday 16 December – Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle
\nFriday 18 December – Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
\nSunday 20 December – Spark Arena, Auckland<\/p>\n

For complete tour and ticket information\u00a0visit\u00a0<\/strong>livenation.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pre-order \/ Pre-save\u00a0Perfecth<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/qotsa.lnk.to\/perfecth<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Queens of the Stone Age –\u00a0Perfecth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. It’s Only Love
\n2.\u00a0Insignificant Other<\/a>
\n3. Where The Goth Girls At?
\n4. Mono
\n5. From The Cliff
\n6. Sunday
\n7.\u00a0Easy Street<\/a>
\n8. Phantom Limb
\n9. Run Away From The Mob<\/p>\n

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