Grunge Report recently reported that Dave Grohl has rejoined Queens Of The Stone Age for their new album. Band Leader Josh Homme made the announcement in a BBC Radio interview.
UPDATE: check out my review of Like Clockwork.
Fans who have been impatiently waiting for a new album from QOTSA (their last album ‘Era Vulgaris‘ was released way back in 2007), will be even more ravenous for new material. Grohl played drums on their 2002 album ‘Songs For The Deaf‘. Given that’s considered by most fans as the best album they’ve released to date, expectations will be high.
No word on why former drummer Joey Castillo left the band. He’s a very underrated drummer in my opinion. Perhaps he’ll go back to work with Danzig, which was his gig prior to Queens.
But Grohl’s drum chops are stronger, and he’s the perfect fit for the crazy lurching and propulsive rhythms provided by Homme’s band, which goes into heavier territory than their other band Them Crooked Vultures.
And fans clamoring for the return of former bassist Nick Oliveri will likely have no such luck. The stormy relationship between himself and Homme hasn’t been helped by his continual legal and substance abuse issues (most notable his standoff with a SWAT team over the summer).
No official release date has been set, but I’ll keep you posted on all new developments in the QOTSA world.
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