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Queens of the Stone Age<\/a> have confirmed the title of their new album, Perfecth, and have revealed a possible release date.<\/p>\n The announcement comes by way of a new 90-second video clip featuring band members Josh Homme<\/a> and guitarist-keyboardist Dean Fertita playing a game of five-finger fillet, a dangerous game in which you place your hand on a table and rapidly stab a knife back and forth between the gaps in your fingers.<\/p>\n Fertita gets through the game unscathed, and Homme asks to have a try, but before he can begin, Fertita asks when the new record is coming out. <\/p>\n \u201cUm, September 30th, I think?\u201d Homme replies, before trying to give it a go; Fertita interrupts again, asking, \u201cYou excited?\u201d<\/p>\n Homme smiles awkwardly and admits, \u201cUh, you\u2019re kind of freaking me out\u2026 Yeah, yeah I\u2019m excited. It\u2019s going to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n From there, it all goes wrong for Homme, who sees the knife plunged through his right hand. As blood covers both musicians, Homme admits that perhaps he won\u2019t be around to see the album come out, after all.<\/p>\n Instead, a perky voiceover rounds off the clip by sharing, \u201cQueens of the Stone Age, the new album, Perfecth, coming September 30th.\u201d However, the end of the clip sees the date crossed out to account for Homme\u2019s less-than-desirable condition, and instead the promise that the album will be \u201cComing\u2026 soon?\u201d<\/p>\n The band\u2019s preoccupation with blood and gore seems to be a theme of the new album, as the music video to their preppy new single, \u2018Easy Street\u2019<\/a>, also centres around a bloody affair.<\/p>\n In the video, a bashed-up Josh Homme is chased through a village by a mob of angry misfits until the crew assemble for a chaotic house party with a gruelling twist.<\/p>\n Perfecth will follow on from the band\u2019s eighth studio album, 2023\u2019s In Times New Roman<\/a>. Far Out gave the release a three-star review, observing, \u201cQueens of the Stone Age are as sharp musically as they\u2019ve ever been, but the material just doesn\u2019t quite rise to the same level that the band are at.\u201d<\/p>\n
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