Queens of the Stone Age have found an appropriately painful way to announce the title of their upcoming ninth studio album.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The rock band revealed that their next record will be called\u00a0Perfecth\u00a0through a bizarre and decidedly bloody game of five-finger fillet featuring\u00a0frontman\u00a0Josh Homme and guitarist-keyboardist Dean Fertita. The album will follow 2023\u2019s\u00a0In Times New Roman…\u00a0and is expected later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josh Homme Learns the Hard Way\u00a0<\/p>\n
The announcement video begins with Homme and Fertita sitting down to play five-finger fillet, the dangerous game in which participants rapidly stab a knife between the fingers of an outstretched hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fertita appears to be an experienced player, while Homme quickly discovers that he may have bitten off more than he can chew.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During his first attempt, Homme\u00a0plunges\u00a0the knife directly into his hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it hurt?\u201d Fertita asks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u00a0it\u00a0f******\u00a0hurts, dude,\u201d Homme responds before Fertita tells him to pull the knife out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Homme, understandably,\u00a0isn’t\u00a0immediately\u00a0enthusiastic about the idea.\u00a0\u201cI can’t do it,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eventually, he manages to remove the knife\u2014but the situation gets\u00a0considerably more\u00a0gruesome from there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Queens of the Stone Age\u2019s\u00a0Announcement Gets Bloody\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Homme pulls the knife from his hand, the injury suddenly begins bleeding heavily, with blood spraying across the room and covering both musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s\u00a0an extremely Queens of the Stone Age way to announce an album title.\u00a0The stunt also fits nicely with the band’s penchant for dark humor and unconventional promotional campaigns. Rather than simply revealing the title through a traditional social media post, QOTSA turned the announcement into a miniature horror show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the title hidden within all that chaos is\u00a0Perfecth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(If you have hemophobia, watch at your own risk.)<\/p>\n
\u201cEasy Street\u201d Offers the First Taste\u00a0<\/p>\n