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New Queens of the Stone Age album will be "done by the end of the year"

by Ciaran Thompson

Members of Queens of the Stone Age have been busy this year touring their self-titled debut album, re-released earlier this year, and according to lead vocalist Josh Homme, the band is “sick” of playing it.

“I’m not gonna lie: I’m sick of doing the first record…I love the first record, but we’ve never played the same setlist before,” Homme told BBC Radio 1 host Zane Lowe. “But then were playing really deep cuts [after the album performance] because it just it feels like a special night. Were playing really small places.”

Previously we reported Queens had already started work on a new record to follow 2007’s Era Vulgaris, but Homme has revealed the band has definite plans to get back in the studio and even an idea of when they’ll finish it.

“Were going to take our last break that we would get for a month, and come back [to the UK] and do Glastonbury, then immediately jump in the studio,” he said. “Our record will be done by the end of the year. We have enough songs. Were at a weird moment where we really don’t feel like we have anything to prove. We just want to play to the people that are into us and we want to play right at them.”