Queens Of The Stone Age are releasing the audio from ‘Alive in The Catacombs’, the live performance documentary capturing their efficiency within the catacombs of Paris final 12 months.
The recordings will arrive on streaming this Friday (June 13) by way of Matador Information. As well as, the band may also launch the audio on a restricted vinyl version, for which solely 5,000 copies can be made.
The vinyl version incorporates an unique 24-page booklet of behind the scenes pictures taken by long-time collaborator Andreas Neumann. Housed in a gatefold jacket with foil print inside and outside, every copy can be individually stamped and numbered. The vinyl might be pre-ordered right here forward of the discharge on August 22.
In the course of the efficiency, which befell with out an viewers, the band was joined by a three-piece string part, utilizing chains and chopsticks as makeshift percussion devices. Each music was recorded dwell in a whole take with no overdubs or edits.
The tracklist is:
‘Working Joke/Paper Machete’
‘Kalopsia’
‘Villains of Circumstance’
‘Suture Up Your Future’
‘I By no means Got here’
The movie Alive in The Catacombs got here out final week and follows the band’s efficiency within the Paris Catacombs in July 2024.
The Catacombs – the place the stays of greater than six million persons are housed – have been open for public visitation because the nineteenth century, and stay a preferred vacationer attraction within the French capital. Queens Of The Stone Age have been the primary band to carry out there.
In a four-star overview of the movie, NME wrote: “So immersive is the California rockers’ starkly lovely Thomas Rames-directed and Blogothèque-produced half-hour dwell movie Alive In The Catacombs, that it’s simple to get misplaced – as you would possibly whereas navigating the tunnels and ossuaries beneath the French capital. What’s extra, this ain’t no normal stripped-back Stay Lounge kinda affair. Homme and co are aided by a supporting solid of six million souls whose skulls line the partitions.
“As guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen places it within the accompanying Alive In Paris And Earlier than documentary (by QOTSA’s longtime visible collaborator Andreas Neumann), the band will not be the principle characters for as soon as. They’re right here to go with and present deference to those folks buried 20 metres underground in 1786.”
In the meantime, Queens Of The Stone Age are set to play two big out of doors headline gigs at Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus this summer time, shortly after topping the invoice at Victorious Competition in Portsmouth.
The group will embark on a European tour later this 12 months too, the place they’ll additionally seem at quite a few festivals resembling Øya, Electrical Fort, Lowlands, Pukkelpop and Rock En Seine.
In 2024, QOTSA have been pressured to cancel some dwell dates in Europe because of Homme requiring “emergency surgical procedure”. The musician then returned to the stage final December for a Mark Lanegan tribute live performance in London.
Queens’ first present again is at the moment scheduled for June 10 in Boston, Massachusetts. That very same month, they’ll seem at Bonnaroo 2025 in Manchester, Tennessee, amongst different US dates.