Queens Of The Stone Age Share New Single ‘Paper Machete’

Queens of the Stone Age recently released a new single, “Paper Machete,” from In Times New Roman…, their first album in six years.

“Paper Machete” arrived a couple of days after the band’s frontman Joshua Homme revealed in an interview with Revolver‘s Steve Appleford that he was diagnosed with cancer last year and underwent successful surgery to remove it.

In an interview with Consequence, Homme spoke at length about the song, saying, “There’s some classic us here. Like, that lead line that’s going through the song, that’s such quintessential Dean [Fertita] – it’s very him, the style and the way it’s played. And Troy [Van Leeuwen] was saying, ‘I’m going to do a lead that’s the exact tone as ‘Little Sister.” I guess we call them cousins, like ‘Little Sister’ is related to ‘Paper Machete’ – and it’s also related to our first song, ‘Regular John,’ all the way back.”

“I think, lyrically, this has become this diary of a life. You’re writing a soundtrack in your life. When you stop the film and pull a single frame, each song is like a single frame of an emotion. This one kind of represents the frustration of saying, ‘I’ve had enough now.’ I think it’s really important to be able to really distill it down to one drop of an emotion for each song,” he added.

Queens of the Stone Age released “Emotion Sickness,” the lead single from In Times New Roman., and another track “Carnavoyeur” last month.

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