QOTSA announce Alive In The Catacombs album and film

After much teasing, Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their haunting Alive In The Catacombs album/film.

Captured last summer within the historic Paris landmark, QOTSA will be sharing their incredibly special and unique stripped-down set on June 5, in which they performed surrounded by several million bodies that were buried in the 1700s – the first time a band has ever done it, and granted by the city of Paris.

“If you’re ever going to be haunted, surrounded by several million dead people is the place,” announces frontman Josh Homme. “I’ve never felt so welcome in my life. We’re so stripped down because that place is so stripped down, which makes the music so stripped down, which makes the words so stripped down… It would be ridiculous to try to rock there. All those decisions were made by that space. That space dictates everything, it’s in charge. You do what you’re told when you’re in there.”

“The Catacombs of Paris are a fertile ground for the imagination,” adds Hélène Furminieux (Les Catacombes de Paris). “It is important to us that artists take hold of this universe and offer a sensitive interpretation of it. Going underground and confronting reflections on death can be a deeply intense experience. Josh seems to have felt in his body and soul the full potential of this place. The recordings resonate perfectly with the mystery, history, and a certain introspection, notably perceptible in the subtle use of the silence within the Catacombs.”

Watch the trailer for Alive In The Catacombs below:

Catch QOTSA (very much above the ground) at the following shows this summer:

Queens Of The Stone Age UK/Ireland 2025 tour dates

August

20 Dublin Royal Hospital Kilmainham
22 Portsmouth Victorious Festival
27 Sheffield Rock N Roll Circus
28 Sheffield Rock N Roll Circus

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