Queens Of The Stone Age have added a European leg to the 2027 tour behind Perfecth, their ninth album, which arrived October 30 on Matador Records. The run opens June 13 at Hanover's Gilde Parkbühne and works south and east through Bordeaux, Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia, Nîmes, Pordenone, Munich and Pula, closing June 30 at the Pula Arena in Croatia. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 6 at 10am local time. No UK dates have been announced yet; the band's camp expects them in the coming weeks.

The European shows follow a North American stretch in May with Pixies, hitting Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston among others. Before any of it, the band finishes 2026 on the road: Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, then a co-headline concert with Interpol in Mexico City in March 2027. The year just gone included stadium support slots for Foo Fighters on their Take Cover tour, a schedule that puts Perfecth in front of very large rooms before it gets its own headline stages.

Josh Homme has been talking about what those stages will hold. In conversation with Michael Schuman, he described the band's stripped-back Catacombs shows as a turning point: "I think the Catacombs have changed us forever, and so there is no going back, there's only forward," he said, adding that the band learned "something about the theatrics of all that, almost Vaudeville and magic." He also said the new production is something "I really don't want to talk about," which is its own kind of promise.

The record itself is a concept album about love, and Homme has framed this period as the band's third act, a search for peace after the years spent proving themselves and then escalating. That reading matters for the tour: a band known for force and volume has made an album that asks for something quieter, and the Catacombs experiment suggests they know how to hold a room without filling it.

Watch the venues as much as the setlists. Pula Arena is a Roman amphitheater, and the Nîmes festival plays out against another. Homme's talk of Vaudeville and magic points toward staging that works with those spaces. The band's channel has posted a clip titled "Big Chongus Finds a Perfecth Home," which may or may not be a clue. The June dates will tell.