Queens Of The Stone Age: new album "Perfecth" announced with a "bloodied" teaser

Queens Of The Stone Age have finally revealed the title of the album that will pick up where "In Times New Roman...", released in 2023, left off. The ninth studio album from Josh Homme's band will be called "Perfecth", complete with that curious final "h" for which, for the time being, the group has offered no explanation. The release date also remains shrouded in mystery, even though the first teaser did feature a fairly precise clue: 30 September.
As so often with Queens Of The Stone Age, the announcement arrived via a decidedly unconventional operation. There was no official press release with artwork, tracklist and recording details, but instead a roughly ninety-second video in which Josh Homme and Dean Fertita sit at a table and try their hand at five-finger fillet, the dangerous game that involves rapidly stabbing a knife between the fingers of one hand.
Fertita gets through the test unscathed, while things go decidedly worse for Homme. Midway through the game comes the crucial question: when will the new album come out? "30 September, I think," the frontman replies. Shortly after, however, the knife lands on his hand and the scene turns splatter: Homme passes out, and a voice introduces the title "Perfecth", again accompanied by the 30 September date. In the final frame, though, the date is crossed out and replaced with a more enigmatic "coming soon". 30 September could therefore be the real release date, or just the latest red herring cooked up by the band.
Here's the teaser below.

"Perfecth" will be the ninth Queens Of The Stone Age album, arriving three years after "In Times New Roman...". For now, no artwork, tracklist, production credits or detailed information about the recording sessions have been released. Even the meaning of the title, and above all its unusual spelling, remains to be deciphered. That the band intended to shorten the gap between one record and the next had been known for some time, though. Back in 2024, Homme had already explained that he didn't want to repeat the long break between "Villains", released in 2017, and "In Times New Roman...". Seven years were too many for the musician, who had expressed his intention to "roll up his sleeves" and get straight back to work on new music. That plan had to reckon with Homme's own health issues, which in 2024 forced Queens Of The Stone Age to cancel a substantial part of their tour. The frontman later revealed that he had been bedridden for about seven months after surgery, going through a particularly difficult period that followed the recording made in the Catacombs of Paris. That experience subsequently gave rise to the film and EP "Alive In The Catacombs", followed by the Catacombs Tour. The first concrete piece of this new phase arrived instead last July with "Easy Street" (video below), a single made with Nikki Lane and accompanied by a video that already showed the band's more ironic, surreal side. The track remains by far the most substantial preview of the new era so far, and should find a place on "Perfecth".

There's also another possible clue. The closing credits of "Alive In The Catacombs" feature "Insignificant Other", an unreleased song sung by Homme that still has no official place on any record. There's no confirmation yet that it will appear on "Perfecth", but together with "Easy Street" it stands as one of the few fragments of recent material to have surfaced around the band.
To find out the rest, then, we'll have to wait. Queens Of The Stone Age have chosen to turn the announcement of their ninth album into a small game of clues, involving blood, knives, dates first announced and then deleted, and a deliberately enigmatic title. "Perfecth" is now official; for everything else, including that suspicious September 30th date, the watchword remains "coming soon".

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