Six feet under and louder than ever: QOTSA alive from the Paris catacombs
Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs is not just a live session. It’s an aural séance. Filmed and recorded in July 2024, this singular event drops QOTSA into the shadowy underworld of Paris’s legendary Catacombs—and the result is nothing short of mythic.
This is not your average gig. This is Queens of the Stone Age reanimated in a setting that makes even the most hardened goth blush: a cavernous necropolis lined with skulls and silence, where every chord reverberates off centuries of bone and stone. “The biggest audience we’ve ever played for,” deadpans frontman Joshua Homme, surrounded quite literally, by millions of human remains. Grim? Maybe. Epic? Absolutely.
The setlist? Meticulously curated and twisted into forms you’ve never heard before. Classics and deep cuts alike have been stripped down, reimagined, and rebuilt for the echo chamber of the afterlife. No track is played the way you expect. Each arrangement is sculpted with an almost ceremonial reverence for the acoustics of the space—dripping water becomes percussion, natural reverb stretches into infinity, and the Catacombs themselves breathe life into the performance.
This isn’t about nostalgia or hits. It’s about essence. Mood. Texture. A total immersion into QOTSA’s sonic psyche. Every lighting cue, every mic placement, every warbled synth and off-kilter riff—all of it is engineered to flirt with the macabre beauty of the surroundings. You don’t watch Alive in the Catacombs. You descend into it.
And once you’re in, it doesn’t let go.
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