Filmed and recorded in July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs captures QOTSA as you’ve never seen or heard them before. This utterly unique once in a lifetime experience features a carefully selected setlist spanning the QOTSA catalog, each song chosen and epically reimagined for the Catacombs. The result is an unprecedented incarnation of QOTSA at their most intimate, yet surrounded by literally millions of human remains — “the biggest audience we’ve ever played for,” says Joshua Homme. Every aesthetic decision, every choice of song, every configuration of instruments… absolutely everything was planned and played with deference to the Catacombs—from the acoustics and ambient sounds — dripping water, echoes and natural resonance — to the darkly atmospheric lighting tones that enhance the music.
Sound
Those dripping water echoes aren't effects—they're the actual catacombs.
Cinematography
Lighting that makes you feel like you're trespassing in a tomb.
Direction
Thomas Rames lets the space be the sixth band member.
Director
Thomas Rames
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Paris Catacombs hold the remains of over six million people, relocated from overflowing cemeteries in the late 18th century. QOTSA is the first major rock act to film there.
Joshua Homme nearly died from complications during knee surgery in 2023; this performance, filmed a year later in a literal burial chamber, carries unintended weight as a near-death artist confronting mortality.
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