Created, directed and art direction by Liam Lynch. Step right this way, if you dare.
Step right up and take a trip through the eerie and macabre with Queens of the Stone Age as your tour guide —in their latest video, that is. The band has unveiled the latest creation for their “mile-a-minute Cramps-style rave-up” (UPROXX) Head Like A Haunted House, off their Number One, Grammy® nominated album Villains (Matador).
Created, directed and art direction by frequent collaborator Liam Lynch, the video is a ghastly animated carnival ride through your worst fever-induced nightmares. Accompanied by disembodied hands, UFOs, smouldering hellscapes and grooving skeletons, Joshua Homme leads the way as he and his pack of mischief-makers sail through the nighttime sky on what else but flying coffins.
The 2018 Villains Tour continues to bring the heat and lay waste to capacity crowds, with the most recent round of fervent reviews clamoring for more:
‘The greatest rock’n’roll band on the planet’ – Guardian ***** (five stars)
‘Homme remained as magnetic as ever, a rocker unafraid to try new things, and crucially, still untamed’ Evening Standard **** (four stars)
Praise for Villains
“Villains is brilliant. It’s all the things that make QOTSA such a thrilling band condensed into a jolting, compact rock record” / “Desert-dry guitars, motorik rhythms and his own too-cool-for-school-croon…Josh Homme’s winning formula” ???? Q Magazine
“Heroic stuff…..Homme had already done more than anyone of his generation to pump new heart into rock. Now with an unlikely ally, he’s revived the soul too” / “Quintessential QOTSA swagger” ???? MOJO
“QOTSA at peak party…The sound of living in the moment and it’s glorious” ???? NME
“Josh Homme and Mark Ronson make dance rock theatre”/ “A surprisingly welcome balance between Black Sabbath and disco”Uncut 8/10 “Deep and danceable delight” / “My, have they come to party”Classic Rock 9/10“A great rock ‘n’ roll group” / “Josh Homme’s desert vikings beef up their myth” / “sweet and supple melodies galore on this Mark Ronson-produced album” ???? The Guardian
“One great riff and hook after another” ???? The Times
“wisecracks about mortality over a driving Led Zeppelin groove” ???? Financial Times
“Off-hand cool” ???? i
“Tight as heck and curiously admirable” ???? Evening Standard
“A reinvention that manages to sound both quintessentially QOTSA and forward-thinking… Villains cuts comfortably shoulder the best of QOTSA’s back-catalogue” ???? Kerrang!
“Their most danceable offering yet -and all the better for it” ????? DIY MaG
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