Josh Homme summons three decades of desert rock from beneath Parisian bones.
Live taping of a performance by Queens of the Stone Age on Tuesday, November 18th at 8 pm for Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater. Queens of the Stone Age—Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore—continue to defy boundaries and expectations. Three decades into a groundbreaking career, the band ventured underground for Alive in the Catacombs, an innovative album-and-film pairing that reimagines their famously heavy catalog in an otherworldly setting. Recorded beneath Paris in centuries-old crypts, the project serves as both séance and statement—summoning everything that has made QOTSA a singular force in modern rock.
Sound
Catacomb acoustics that turn every riff into a séance.
Production
Lighting corpses with artful intention — maximalist gloom.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Paris Catacombs contain over six million skeletons, relocated from overcrowded cemeteries in the late 1700s.
QOTSA filmed this after Homme's near-death experience, making the catacomb setting feel like a deliberate confrontation with mortality.
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