Queens Of The Stone Age share wild wall of death footage from Hellfest 2024 set

3 July, 2024

Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age performs on stage at The OVO Hydro on November 18, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns)

Queens Of The Stone Age have shared footage of the crowd at Hellfest 2024 performing a wild wall of death during their set.

Last year, Josh Homme and co went viral after their rendition of their 2002 track ‘Song For The Dead’ was performed at Glastonbury and the massive crowd came together to mosh over the hit, marking it as one of the most energetic moments of the 2023 instalment.

Now, the band have shared footage of the crowd from the stage during their sub-headline set to Foo Fighters at this year’s edition of Hellfest in France. The clip sees a gigantic wall of death opening up during the iconic beginning of the song.

Last year, Queens Of The Stone Age released their eighth full-length studio release ‘In Times New Roman‘. In a four-star review, NME described the album as one that used “pain to encourage a rawness in their sound”. “‘In Times New Roman’ is unlikely to win over those perched on the fence,” it read. “But with enough fan-service for the die-hards; this is up there with their darkest, knottiest material to date, and will be appreciated all the more for it.”

Now, the band are set to re-release their 1998 debut self-titled album (you can pre-order it here). Speaking with NME at this year’s edition of Download Festival last month, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and drummer Jon Theodore opened up about the re-release. “We love that record. I think we all listened to it before we were in the band, but we’ve been playing a couple of those songs along the way so it does bring back memories,” said Leeuwen while Theodore added: “It’s good to refresh them and make them current again. We do try to play to play them all the time and for most people it was their first look at the band. So it always goes over well when we play the songs.”

 

Last December, Queens of the Stone Age sat down with NME to talk friendship and connection, a “romance” with Dave Grohl, a backstage run-in with Elton John and more.

On the topic of their future, their frontman Josh Homme said: “I think we should be making something. The mantra of the last five years was, ‘It won’t be long now!’ That needs to pertain to making things too. I certainly think we should make more, faster-er, better-er.”

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