For more than 20 years, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme held onto a singular vision: to perform deep beneath Paris in the Catacombs — a vast ossuary housing the remains of more than six million souls. That long-held dream has finally materialized as Alive in the Catacombs — a cinematic and sonic statement that transcends performance to become a pivotal chapter in both the band’s evolution and Homme’s personal journey.
Filmed at a time of profound personal challenge, Alive in the Catacombs reflects an artist not just realizing a dream, but reckoning with legacy, mortality, and endurance. The result is an intimate, reimagined exploration of the Queens of the Stone Age catalog — raw, stripped down, and resonating with the gravity of the setting. Surrounded by centuries of silence and the memory of countless lives, the music takes on new weight and urgency.
Alive in the Catacombs is a confrontation with impermanence, a reflection on survival, and an assertion of creative vision sharpened by lived experience. It captures Homme at his most multidimensional: a brilliant, complex force balancing elegance and edge, clarity and chaos.
That fragile balance has powered QOTSA’s music since the band’s beloved 1998 self-titled debut, a much-needed breath of fresh rock’n’roll air at a time when pop stars and boy bands dominated the airwaves. The group has gone on to release iconic albums such as Rated R (2000), the Grammy-nominated Songs for the Deaf (2003) and the chart-topping Like Clockwork (2013), while Homme has also been a driving force in side projects such as The Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal and Them Crooked Vultures with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones.
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