Eagles of Death Metal Nov 10, 2008
Homme's best work with his other bands, Queens of the Stone Stage and Kyuss, hinged on strong partnerships, and "Heart On" suggests that he and Hughes have bonded well over their plan to trash the dance floor with their hulking arena rock. EODM does not simply stretch out on a water bed of '70s-era pomp. (Boston Globe)
Amon Amarth Stump For Vikings In Bloody Video; Plus Isis, The Sword & More News That Rules, In Metal File Oct 24, 2008
" The rest of the week's metal news: According to Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato, the band is currently writing material for its next album, which it plans on recording in 2009. The band, he said, will also be playing several "random" gigs early next year, with a few possible for later this year. We'll keep you posted once those dates are official. ... Isis have booked studio time for November, when they'll start recording their fifth full-length. Expect that set to be in stores... (VHI.com -- Music News)
NXNE Day 3: Crazy Israelis, Critic-Rockers and Desert Storms Jun 17, 2008
The former member of Kyuss (which also featured Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme) kept it real with that cult classic band's 70s-inspired stoner desert-rock. Again, there wasn't much in the way of specific songs but the long-haired metal-hippie crafted intense guitar rock that built to epic crescendos every damn time, man. (AOL Music Canada)
Who Made You God? He'll get in your face May 30, 2008
But these are balanced by such witty asides as: Where's all my Kyuss records. You never liked them until you met me. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Queens extends reach May 6, 2008
out of the hard-rock ashes of frontman, Josh Homme's band, Kyuss. Van Leeuwen, formerly of gloomy supergroup A Perfect Circle, joined Queens in 2002 to tour breakthrough album, the twice Grammy-nominated Songs For the Deaf. (Regina Leader-Post)
Pelican report Apr 11, 2008
Combining elements from influences spanning the dooming groove of Kyuss to the complexity of Slint, Pelican is able to open the ears of an audience past your average Slayer fan. The group's music is first and foremost expansive, playing with dynamics as gradual and dense as a glacier melting. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Putting his fettle to the metal Feb 18, 2008
Doom metal has its share of seamless career transitions: Josh Homme graduated from the monolithic Kyuss to form Queens of the Stone Age, "Wino" Weinrich disbanded The Obsessed to form Saint Vitus, and now ex-Sleep guitarist Matt Pike has seen High on Fire's momentum grow like an avalanche over the past decade. The colossally heavy Oakland, Calif. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Queens were not amused Aug 24, 2007
Shifting collaborative allegiances have been so much the norm since Homme constructed Queens after leaving proto-stoner-metal warriors Kyuss in the mid-'90s that the band is often considered a glorified solo project. The current lineup remains his favourite, though, and he's willing to pursue the "band" thing until he feels it's time to shake things up again. (Toronto Star)
Princes Charming – well, almost Aug 22, 2007
Canada and the Queens have long shared a deep affinity, one that dates all the way back to Homme's previous band - stoner-rock legends Kyuss, whose members came together in the early 1990s only to disband several years later. Homme has also maintained a decade-long relationship with the owner of Toronto's Bovine Sex Club, where the band recently conducted media interviews in preparation for its cross-country tour. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Homme: King of Queens Jun 29, 2007
The stoner quartet emerged from the Palm Springs alterna-rock scene 11 years ago after the breakup of Homme and Oliveri's earlier group, the grunge-psych-garage-punk band Kyuss. Although Queens' roster has continuously and deliberately revolved over the years to include the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on drums and former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan on vocals, Homme scuttles the notion that the group is some elaborately wrought solo project a la Trent Reznor's stewardship of Nine Inch... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Queens set hard rock on fire Jun 15, 2007
In any event, it seems to be conducive to rockin' out: the fertile musical scene in Palm Desert has produced bands such as Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal and Queens of the Stone Age, all featuring Queens frontman Josh Homme, who was born in nearby Palm Springs. - The current Queens lineup comprises guitarists Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen and drummer Joey Castilo, supplemented by bassist Michael Shuman and keyboardist Dean Fertita. (Vancouver Sun)
Love Live The Queens Jun 3, 2007
A former member of Kyuss, the mad bassist of Queens was just as likely to disrobe at a show as he was to show up for work in another dimension. He was ousted from the band in 2004. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Queens of the Stone Age May 8, 2007
They evolved from Kyuss, a space-rock band renowned for throwing drug-fried parties in the Californian desert, and still resembled some kind of intimidating tribe who had wandered out of the sands, where one fancifully imagined they subsisted on a diet of peyote and human bones. Sandwiched between grunge phantom Mark Lanegan and clothes-averse bass viking Nick Oliveri, frontman and mastermind Josh Homme played straight man, an unyielding monolith around which the storm could rage. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Queens' cup runneth way over May 6, 2007
He looks mean, but the former mainstay of cult stoner rock band Kyuss is more of a lover than a fighter. It may be brutal on the ears, but even the epic kiss-off, 'Song for the Dead', plays a kind of tantric coitus interruptus with guitars. (The Observer)
Metal File: Sci-Fi Video, Summer Tour In Fu Manchu's 'Stache May 4, 2007
Hill minds being lumped together with like-minded rockers Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Monster Magnet and Fireball Ministry. He just doesn't dig on labels, period. (VHI.com -- Music News)
ISIS plays adventurous music that's hard to define Mar 16, 2007
In fact, ISIS -- which also includes guitarist-keyboardist Clifford Meyer, bassist Jeff Caxide, drummer Aaron Harris, and guitarist Mike Gallagher -- has at least as much to do with the post-rock psychedelia of bands such as Dead Meadow and the aforementioned Mogwai as it does heavy metal forefathers like Black Sabbath or descendants like Kyuss or Queens of the Stone Age. "I've always been interested in adventurous music," says Turner, 29, who was born in Springfield and grew up surrounded by... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Comets on Fire Mar 5, 2007
At Arthurfest, they played alongside psychedelic bands Sunburned Hand of the Man and Dead Meadow - members of a fresh psychedelic rock scene that continues a tradition mapped out by bands such as Love and Kyuss. No two Comets shows are the same, and the band is heavily influenced by its physical surroundings and vibe, von Harmonson says, so the set should go down a treat as the sun sets over the Golden Plains. (The Age)
EA Makes Game Soundtracks Available on iTunes Mar 4, 2007
The Need for Speed Carbon soundtrack includes the riff-heavy power of such bands as Kyuss, Eagles Of Death Metal, UK's Metro Riots and Australia's Wolfmother, 'Electro' acts Ladytron and Goldfrapp, Australia's The Presets, Canada's Tiga, and urban 'Grime' featuring Pharrell, UK's Lady Sovereign, Roots Manuva and Sway, Japan's melody, and Philadelphia's Spank Rock. The soundtracks from the Burnout series features tracks by artists that include Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand,... (DailyTech)
