Pitchfork: Queens of the Stone Age LP Gets Title, Street Date

Queens of the Stone Age LP Gets Title, Street Date

You may already have read our report two weeks ago reporting that Queens of the Stone Age will be releasing their highly drooled-over follow-up to 2002's Songs for the Deaf in March. And for that, we thank you; your internet loyalty will never be questioned again. But, as is pretty much always the case with these things, the band has revealed heretofore unknown details about the record-- including the title and release date. QOTSA's website announces that the album, now titled Lullabies to Paralyze, will be released on March 22nd, 2005. It will be the band's first since the departure of longtime QOTSA bassist Nick Oliveri, and presently features an ambitious 20 tracks.

Further adding to the hype is guitarist/keyboardist Troy Van Leeuwen's impeccible name-dropping abilities. Among the contributors for the record are Dean Ween, and a man well acquainted with Josh Homme's "stone age" sensibilities, Chriss Goss, who worked with both Homme and Oliveri in their prior incarnation Kyuss. Readers should be thrilled to know that both men collaborated on the wonderfully titled album track "The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died".

Says Van Leeuwen: "The session started out relatively normal, but then took a turn for the bizarre, once longtime friends Dean Ween, Chris Goss and Jesse 'The Devil' Hughes scarred this song with their musical branding irons." Wait, are we talking branding irons or razor blades? I mean, because, with a grammatically unclear and presumably dangerous title like Lullabies to Paralyze, isn't pretty much anything possible? Yes. Yes, it is.