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Missing Black Sabbath? Here are 10 bands that will fill the Sabbath-shaped hole in your life

Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there

Metal Hammer

"I've actually talked about it a few times." After years of shooting down the idea, Josh Homme now says that a Kyuss reunion is "possible"

Could cult desert rock legends Kyuss rise again? Josh Homme offers fans a glimmer of hope

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"There’s also an entitled, spoiled aspect to this": Josh Homme on his subterranean Alive In The Catacombs gig to 6 million skeletons

“This could be beautiful. This could be elegant,” he says, of Queens of the Stone Age's unusual live return

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“If something works there, it works everywhere”: Why Josh Homme prefers to write his songs on acoustic guitar first

Queens of the Stone Age have become the first band to play the Paris Catacombs for a new live film, and he says it shows how many of their biggest hits take their form

Guitar World

“Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record

The tale of Josh Homme & co.’s excellent second album, which turns 25 this month, and how metal icon Rob Halford came to make a cameo on it.

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“Some things you are supposed to touch, and some things you are never supposed to touch”: Remembering when Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme played George Harrison’s Rosewood Telecaster – and got so star-struck by the guitar he couldn’t speak

We've all been there, one of the most legendary techs in guitar history hands you a Beatle's guitar and it is all too much

Guitar World

"It would be ridiculous to try to rock there." Watch the trailer for Queens of the Stone Age's Alive in the Catacombs film, documenting a unique performance underneath Paris "surrounded by several million dead people"

See Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age as you've never seen them before, performing in the world-famous Catacombs of Paris

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“If you’re a Zep fan and really want to go see Zeppelin, you might as well go and see one of the better tribute bands”: The epic life and career of John Paul Jones, the heartbeat of Led Zeppelin and so much more

Crack session musician, in-demand producer, one quarter of the world’s biggest rock band – ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones has done it all

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“Every single song a single, every single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man”: The Hives big up their new Mike D-co-produced record

Josh Homme also appears on album, due in August with a tour to follow

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The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates

"Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man."

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“I’ve always embraced my musical schizophrenia, and this is just another room in that mansion of personality”: How Them Crooked Vultures became modern rock’s greatest one-and-done supergroup

What happened when Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones teamed up in Them Crooked Vu.tures

Louder

“This is the secret weapon... This thing is incredible”: It’s finally here – Josh Homme teams up with Peavey to recreate its sought-after Decade amp – and it has a host of studio- and stage-ready upgrades

The brand new Peavey Decade Too takes direct inspiration from the '80s classic, whose iconic features have also been transformed into a compact pedal

Guitar World

"My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll

Brant Bjork sharies his stories of desert rock, generator parties and why he never wanted Kyuss to be Metallica

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“I doubt our detractors would have the balls to do what we’ve done. You have to humble yourself at the altar of rock’n’roll”: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme rose above the chaos to make Lullabies To Paralyze

The chaos, confusion and righteous vision of Queens Of The Stone Age and Josh Homme

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"Watch how he walks onto the stage, plants himself at the mic, one tattooed fist halfway down the stand, the other resting on top of the mic, immobile, massive, male": Josh Homme, Chrissie Hynde, and more line-up for Mark Lanegan tribute concert

The December 5th gig will take place on what would have been the Screaming Trees frontman’s 60th birthday

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“What a wonderful night this will be.” Josh Homme, Greg Dulli, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde to honour the late Mark Lanegan at star-studded celebration show

Mark Lanegan – 60 A Celebration tribute will be held on what would have been the singer's 60th birthday, December 5

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Queens Of The Stone Age announce first live dates since Josh Homme's emergency surgery

Queens Of The Stone Age will return to the road in June 2025

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“There was some smoking and drinking but it wasn’t a lot of drugs. We weren’t coked out of our minds or shooting heroin”: The epic story of Kyuss, the stoner metal visionaries who blazed brightly and burnt out

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Queens of the Stone Age cancel all 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives ‘essential medical care’

Frontman must ‘prioritise his health’, a month after he underwent emergency surgery and two years after his cancer diagnosis

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Queens Of The Stone Age cancel all remaining 2024 shows as Josh Homme receives "essential medical care"

The latest cancellations follow the shelving of a run of festival dates in Europe earlier this summer

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"Arguably the greatest singer of his generation": Mark Lanegan rarely sounded as soulful as he did on Bubblegum

A wonderful treat as the late Mark Lanegan's sixth solo album Bubblegum is expanded to mark its 20th anniversary

Guitar World

“We had so much fun recording Rated R and Songs for the Deaf. We’d do mushrooms, and the next day, we’d be drinking. We’d be being creative, wild and crazy – that led to some great moments”: Nick Oliveri on Queens of the Stone Age's “definitive” era

The veteran bassist discusses the state of his relationship with Josh Homme, the nerves that almost derailed the first Kyuss shows –and whether or not he’d rejoin QOTSA

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Troy Kingi is making 10 albums in 10 genres in 10 years: Album number eight is inspired by the Mohave desert, mapacho smoke and magic mushrooms

A desert rock album made by Māori musician Troy Kingi at the fabled Rancho De La Luna studio in Joshua Tree? Step right this way

Guitar World

“We peaked out. You had Dave Grohl on drums, Mark Lanegan on vocals, I'm on bass and Josh is on guitar and vocals. It's kind of hard to do better, you know?” Nick Oliveri on why Queens of the Stone Age will never top their Songs for the Deaf lineup

The Mondo Generator bassist also reveals whether he would ever consider rejoining QOTSA

Louder

Listen to the incomparable, much-missed Mark Lanegan on the driving Heard A Train, a previously-unreleased out-take from 2004's brilliant Bubblegum album

Bubblegum XX, an expanded 20th anniversary of Mark Lanegan's 2004 album, is set for release this month: listen to one of the original album out-takes set for inclusion

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