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Great news for Queens Of The Stone Age fans, as looks like the 'No One Knows' stars could be back pretty soon - as the band speak out further on their plans to return to the studio this year.
Since finishing the campaign for 2013's immaculate ...Like Clockwork in 2014, frontman Josh Homme has spent time working with Eagles Of Death Metal and collaborating with Iggy Pop for Post Pop Depression - including what may well have been the best gig of the year at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Then last month, Homme said that the band had met and were 'locked in' with the same line-up to start work n their next record.
Now, speaking on the 2 Hours With Matt Pinfield podcast, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen said that there were 'tons of ideas bouncing around' and that they'd be back to work by the end of the year.
“We’ve already started talking about what we’re gonna do next for the next Queens record,” he said. “There’s tons of ideas that are bouncing around … We’re going to do something before the end of the year, as far as recording goes.”
“We’re excited to get back together to follow-up …Like Clockwork, which was a really, really big record for us, personally. It was a big record for us ’cause it was the hardest record to make. And we’re trying to not do that again. We just want to keep things simpler and try that, I guess.”
Troy has himself been busy with supergroup Gone Is Gone with members of At The Drive In and Mastadon - whose debut album was released last week.
Speaking to Gigwise last year, QOTSA bassist Mikey 'Shoes' Shuman spoke of the band's hiatus.
"There will be future stuff with Queens, we're just taking a break since we had a long, long two years of touring," he told us in March. "We'll take a break to do other stuff."
Speaking of the QOTSA's initial urgency to re-enter the studio, he said: "We were eager because we were in a good spot, having fun and the record had done really well. But we decided to take a break because we had been going so hard for so long, and we really worked on that record for a long time. It's not like we're sick of each other and don't want to do it - it's just better to step back for a second and come back once the world has had a little bit of a break from you."
He added: "I think music and working with different people is the kind of process where you gain things along the way. Whether it's a big band, a small band, a different production or crew - you learn something from everybody, well I do. By the time you're older you've figured it out, and that's what's great about Queens - it's a very open family and everyone is free to do what they want and bring different aspects about what they do to the table."
