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Queens of the Stone Age, who have a new album—Villains—coming out in a few weeks, released some new music...

Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

 

Queens of the Stone Age, who have a new album—Villains—coming out in a few weeks, released some new music today. Be sure to check out "The Evil Has Landed," their new single (also available on iTunes), via the charmingly semi-creepy lyric video below.

The undeniably catchy tune, which benefits from a mid-period Led Zeppelin vibe before morphing into a straight-ahead blues-rocker, was produced by Mark Ronson.

 

It also happens to be packed with guitars; oddly enough, the band recently told NME that guitars are "going extinct."

“It’s like guitars are going extinct in a lot of ways," said[2] drummer Jon Theodore. "Now it’s punk to learn upright bass or classical guitar….It’s a new world right now, and sometimes I feel like a dinosaur but most of the time I’m just grateful that we got started before this transition started—I mean we’re still firmly rooted in the world of guitar.”

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Villains will be released August 25.

 

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  1. ^ recently told NME (www.nme.com)
  2. ^ said (www.nme.com)

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