Villains (Queens of the Stone Age album)

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Villains
Queens of the Stone Age studio album

Publication
(s)

August 25, 2017

admission

2017

Label (s) Matador Records

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Stoner rock , alternative rock

Title (number)

9

running time

48:00

occupation

production

Mark Ronson

Studio (s)

United Recording Studios
Los Angeles , California

chronology
... Like Clockwork
(2013) 		Villains -
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Villains
  DE 2 09/01/2017 (7 weeks)
  AT 2 09/08/2017 (11 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/03/2017 (13 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07.09.2017 (11 weeks)
  US 3 09/16/2017 (5 weeks)

Villains is the seventh studio album by Queens of the Stone Age , which was released on August 25, 2017 by the American music label Matador Records . The album was announced on June 15 with a video published on YouTube and Facebook showing the band doing a lie detector test. Excerpts from the song Feet Don't Fail Me can be heard there . The first single "The Way You Used to Do" was released the next day along with the announcement of a world tour.

Recordings and publication

Some of the songs were performed publicly before the album was released. The title song Villains of Circumstance , for example, was already heard in 2014 during an acoustic concert at the Meltdown Festival and The Evil Has Landed at the first concert of 2017 - on June 22nd at the Rapids Theater in Niagara Falls , New York - at the start of the Villains World Played tour.

From January to March 2017 the songs were recorded at United Recording Studios in Los Angeles . Production was carried out by Mark Ronson , known for his productions with Amy Winehouse , Lady Gaga and others. He was supported by co-producer Mark Ranking and sound engineer Alan Moulder .

On June 12, 2017, the band started promoting the new album on their website.

Track list

  1. Feet don't fail me
  2. The Way You Used to Do
  3. Domesticated Animals
  4. Fortress
  5. Head Like a Haunted House
  6. Un - Reborn Again
  7. Hideaway
  8. The Evil Has Landed
  9. Villains of Circumstance

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Sonder: Queens Of The Stone Age announce new album VILLAINS. In: metal-hammer.de. June 15, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ ME editors: Queens Of The Stone Age reveal more "VILLAINS" details. In: Musikexpress.de. June 15, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ ME-Editor: These villains: Queens Of The Stone Age finally announce their new album "VILLAINS". In: Musikexpress.de. June 15, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Jon Blistein: Queens of the Stone Age Preview New LP, Tour With Gritty 'The Way You Used to Do'. In: Rolling Stone. July 15, 2017, accessed September 11, 2019 .
Queens of the Stone Age
Alfredo Hernández • Nick Oliveri • Dave Catching • Gene Trautmann • Brendon McNichol • Dave Grohl • Mark Lanegan • Joey Castillo • Alain Johannes • Natasha Shneider


Studio albums

Queens of the Stone Age (1998) • Rated R (2000) • Songs for the Deaf (2002) • Lullabies to Paralyze (2005) • Era Vulgaris (2007) • … Like Clockwork (2013) • Villains (2017)

Extended plays

Stone Age Complication (2004)

Live albums

Over the Years and Through the Woods (2005) •… Like Cologne ( iTunes , 2013)

Singles

If Only Everything (Promo, 1996) • If Only (Promo, 1998) • I Was a Teenage Hand Model (Promo, 1998) • The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (2000) • Feel Good Hit of the Summer (2000) • Monsters in the Parasol (Promo, 2000) • Never Say Never (Romeo-Void-Cover, Promo, 2000) • No One Knows (2002) • Go with the Flow (2003) • First it Giveth (2003) • Little Sister ( 2005) • In My Head (2005) • Everybody Knows that You Are Insane (Promo, 2005) • The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died (Promo, 2005 and 2007) • Burn the Witch (2006) • Sick, Sick, Sick (2007) • 3's & 7's (2007) • Make it Wit Chu (2007) • How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat) (2011) • My God is the Sun (2013) • I Sat by the Ocean ( 2013) • The Vampyre of Time and Memory (Promo, 2013) • Smooth Sailing (Promo, 2014) • The Way You Used to Do (2017)

Splits

Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age ( Split with Kyuss , 1997) • The Split CD (Split with Beaver, 1998)