Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has teased the return of The Desert Sessions, the celebrated stoner rock collective he founded over 20 years ago.
Back in the ’90s, Josh Homme became a household name in the world of stoner rock fans thanks to his work as a founding guitarist of music legends Kyuss.
After releasing four beloved albums, the group split in 1996, leaving some of its members wondering about the future. While Homme would go on to found Queens Of The Stone Age, he decided to use this interim period as an opportunity for some musical collaborations.
Teaming up with members of Monster Magnet, Goatsnake, earthlings?, Soundgarden, and Kyuss, The Desert Sessions were founded in 1997, and named for their recording location of California’s Palm Desert.
Over the next seven years, ten volumes of music was released, with something of a revolving door lineup being utilised throughout this period.
However, following the release of Volumes 9 & 10 in 2003, the project went on hiatus, with fans wondering when and if more records would occur. Now, it seems as though things are looking up.
Taking to Instagram recently, Queens Of The Stone Age’s official account posted an innocent, idyllic-looking image of a small horse and a duck staring at each other.
However, buried amongst the text, the phrase “I wonder if anyone’s been recording in the desert?” could be found. Likewise, the hashtags included a few intriguing words, including “desert”, “sessions”, “11”, and “12”, seemingly indicating the future release of The Desert Sessions’ Volumes 11 & 12.
Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Josh Homme hint at the possibility of new material from the collective, explaining back in 2014 that a planned recording session was put on the back-burner thanks to new material from Eagles Of Death Metal.
“As far as Desert Sessions goes, I was going to do a Desert Sessions this year but we did some Eagles recording instead,” he revealed.
“Because Desert Sessions works best at a certain time of the year, when everything slows and everyone takes a deep breath out,” he continued. “At the end of the year, in that December-January timeframe, everyone has exhaled.”
“And post-exhale is the time to do something like that. So if I miss that window… I miss that window.”
So, maybe this means that by the end of 2019, we might be seeing the iconic Desert Sessions collective hitting the studio once again to record their first new material in 16 years. Whatever the case, we can barely contain our excitement!
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