Queens of the Stone Age have introduced the discharge of their distinctive stay efficiency within the Catacombs of Paris as a live performance movie and album.
Recorded in July 2024 and set to be launched on June 6 by way of Matador Information/Distant Management Information, the distinctive efficiency noticed the rock outfit head beneath the floor of Paris to carry out throughout the sprawling 200-mile ossuary. In line with an outline of the situation, its basis is constructed out of “a number of million our bodies buried within the 1700s,” with most of the partitions composed of skulls and bones.
Frontman Josh Homme had dreamed of organizing such a efficiency since visiting nearly 20 years earlier, although was denied permission by the town of Paris, who had by no means beforehand allowed a band to play inside. Nonetheless, the respect the band held for the situation in the end resulted of their efficiency formally being sanctioned.
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“The Catacombs of Paris are a fertile floor for the creativeness,” mentioned Hélène Furminieux of Les Catacombes de Paris. “It is very important us that artists seize this universe and supply a delicate interpretation of it. Going underground and confronting reflections on dying generally is a deeply intense expertise.
“Josh appears to have felt in his physique and soul the total potential of this place. The recordings resonate completely with the thriller, historical past, and a sure introspection, notably perceptible within the refined use of the silence throughout the Catacombs.”
The distinctive nature of the situation leads to Homme and his bandmates – Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore – being backed by three-piece string part as they carry out a stripped-back set deliberate and performed with deference to the Catacombs.
Recorded stay with no overdubs or edits, the efficiency is paired with the acoustic atmosphere of dripping water, echoes and pure resonance as atmospheric lighting spotlights the band.
“We’re so stripped down as a result of that place is so stripped down, which makes the music so stripped down, which makes the phrases so stripped down,” Homme explains. “It will be ridiculous to attempt to rock there. All these selections have been made by that house. That house dictates the whole lot, it’s in cost. You do what you’re informed if you’re in there.”
Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs will likely be out there to lease or buy by way of the band’s web site, with an audio-only launch to be introduced within the coming weeks.
Notably, this isn’t Queens of the Stone Age’s first subterranean gig, with the group beforehand performing 2,300 ft underground at German salt mine, Erlebnisbergwerk Sondershausen, in November 2007. Originally planned for wider launch, the semi-acoustic efficiency is but to see the sunshine of day, with the band’s break up with Interscope Information assumed by followers to be the rationale for its indefinite delay.