As proven by their new “Catacombs Tour,” which kicked off Thursday, October 2nd at the Chicago Theatre, Queens of the Stone Age are currently obsessed with three things: time, death, and reinvention.

It makes sense. Frontman Josh Homme has already faced down a cancer diagnosis and a recent separate health scare that forced him to cancel a portion of QOTSA’s 2024 tour and undergo emergency surgery. Not to mention, the band has been rockin’ for almost 30 years; both personally and artistically, Homme and the band are wrestling with real notions of mortality and the decaying, uncaring nature of time.

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Earlier this year, such themes manifested in their concert film/live EP Alive in the Catacombs , which saw Queens of the Stone Age perform

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