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Nine songs about love in all its forms — the kind that breaks you and the kind that puts you back together — out October 30
August 2026
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Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age have announced their ninth album, Perfecth, out October 30 on Matador Records. The title is intentional: the word “perfect” has never been honest, Homme says, so he broke it. “Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth.’” The record was produced by Homme and bassist Michael Shuman, recorded in sessions from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and maps nine different forms of love — family, friends, the loves that break you, the loves that don’t.
“Insignificant Other” is the album’s centerpiece and arrived from only the second take, the quintet playing loose and making space for each other in real time. It is a song about distance, about someone who was your entire world simply vanishing, and about the strange vertigo of being on the receiving end of that. It is also immediately one of the best things Queens of the Stone Age have recorded in years. Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore sound like a band that has moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment and arrived at something hard-won and clear.
“It’s a song about distance. 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.” — Joshua Homme
The band resumes their North American stadium run with Foo Fighters in September before headline shows in Iceland, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand through December. Pre-order the album below.

1“It’s Only Love”
2“Insignificant Other”
3“Where the Goth Girls At?”
4“Mono”
5“From the Cliff”
6“Sunday”
7“Easy Street”
8“Phantom Limb”
9“Run Away from the Mob”
North America — September w/ Foo Fighters
Sep 15
Mosaic StadiumRegina, SK w/ Foo Fighters
Sep 17
Commonwealth StadiumEdmonton, AB w/ Foo Fighters
Sep 20
BC PlaceVancouver, BC w/ Foo Fighters
Sep 24
Bourbon & Beyond FestivalLouisville, KY
Sep 26
Allegiant StadiumLas Vegas, NV w/ Foo Fighters
Oct 4
Aftershock FestivalSacramento, CA
Oct 24
LaugardalshöllReykjavík, IS
Japan & Asia — November & December
Nov 25
Zepp HanedaTokyo, JP
Nov 26
Zepp NagoyaNagoya, JP
Nov 28
Zepp NambaOsaka, JP
Dec 2
Star TheatreSingapore
Australia & New Zealand — December
Dec 8
The DriveAdelaide, AU
Dec 11
My State Bank ArenaHobart, AU
Dec 13
Rod Laver ArenaMelbourne, AU
Dec 15
Qudos Bank ArenaSydney, AU
Dec 16
Newcastle Entertainment CenterNewcastle, AU
Dec 18
Brisbane Entertainment CenterBrisbane, AU
Dec 20
Spark ArenaAuckland, NZ
Queens of the Stone Age — Perfecth
Released October 30, 2026 · Matador Records
Produced by Joshua Homme & Michael Shuman
Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita & Jon Theodore