Queens of the Stone Age are planning a 2027 tour that Josh Homme says will go "beyond what we've ever done before." Headline dates in North America and Europe are already announced, with a UK leg expected soon and European tickets going on general sale at 10am local time this Friday, November 6. The shows follow Perfecth, the band's ninth album, released last Friday, October 30.

Asked what the new dates will look like after the stripped-back, theatrical Catacombs run, Homme pointed backward to move forward. "The Catacombs have changed us forever, and so there is no going back, there's only forward," he said. "We learned something about the theatrics of all that, almost Vaudeville and magic. We're going to do something I really don't want to talk about."

That reluctance is itself the detail worth holding. Homme frames the current period as the band's "third act," a phrase his bandmates Dean Fertita and Michael Shuman have also taken up. Where the second phase, in his telling, was "war and attack, to push buttons and look for chaos," this one is "about searching for peace somehow." He wants the uncertainty kept intact: "I want chaos and uncertainty. Those are moments to experiment and almost feel underwater with those emotions."

The Catacombs shows, he says, were "terrifying to do because there was nowhere to hide." That admission matters for anyone buying a ticket this week. A band that found something in the exposure of a stage with no screens to duck behind is now promising more production, more stagecraft, more of the Vaudeville and magic it studied up close. The question the 2027 dates will answer is whether added theatricality sharpens that exposure or cushions it.

Perfecth arrives with "Where The Goth Girls At?", "Insignificant Other" and "Easy Street" already out, and with Homme's reworking of "Sunday," his collaboration with Iggy Pop, folded into the tracklist. The band has toured hard through 2026, including stadium dates supporting Foo Fighters, and plays Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand before a co-headline show with Interpol in Mexico City in March 2027.

Homme's description of the third act, allowing old fears to simply be fears, sits oddly against a promise of the biggest production of the band's career. Watch where the two meet: in how much of the show is built to overwhelm, and how much is left bare enough to feel like the Catacombs did.