A bit over an hour into Queens of the Stone Age’s concert Friday night, Oct. 3, at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, frontman Josh Homme provided some context for the unusual exposition that was taking place on stage.

“We`ve been around for a long time,” explained Homme, who founded the group in 1996 following his departure from Kyuss. “Sometimes we do some weird (stuff).”

That was certainly an apt description of the quintet’s hour and 45-minute show on Friday. One of just 11 fall concerts it’s playing, inspired by the band’s recent performance film “Alive in the Catacombs” — documenting a July 2024 performance in the Catacombs of Paris — it strayed from QOTSA’s usual guitar-drenched rock furor and into cabaret, more Bertolt Brecht than bombast. The deconstructed song arrangements and arty staging

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