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Queens of the Stone Age are getting super weird in the lead up to their new album

by Tyler Munro

We know that the new Queen of the Stone Age album will feature Dave Grohl on drums and a brief cameo from former bassist Nick Oliveri, but so far that’s about it.

But over the weekend, the band sent Mojo Magazine a pretty creepy and cryptic message. Accompanied by an eye with a clock in its iris, the message says the band’s new songs are “depictions of what [they] are going through in real time.” It says that the record sounds like “running in a dream inside a codeine cabaret” before admitting that even they don’t know what that means. “Sounds like a load of pretentious shit! Gotta go, the therapist says our time is up,” it reads.

But there’s more: the band’s website has gone almost completely black aside from a text-form box that obscures whatever you type. We put in our e-mail and got what at first appeared to be a standard newsletter that read “what did you think would happen?” though its “I hate my mom” unsubscribe message is a little… off.

Expect their new album out sometime in early 2013.