Queens of the Stone Age

QOTSA founder Josh Homme is on his own after the departure of bassist Nick Oliveri, and he takes the opportunity to mess with expectations about stoner rock/alt metal even more than in the past. The vocals are not nearly straight enough for radio, and the songs themselves are orchestrated to an almost Beach Boys degree.

As lead guitarist and singer for one of hard rock's remaining bastions of old-fashioned
chops, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme had his work cut out for him on Lullabies to
Paralyze. The previous Queens album, 2002's Songs for the Deaf, brought Foo Fighters' Dave
Grohl back to the drum pedestal he had abandoned post-Nirvana and elevated the Queens
to the platinum mainstream with the breakout radio/MTV hits "No One Knows" an... More >