“I doubt our detractors would have the balls to do what we’ve done. You have to humble yourself at the altar of rock’n’roll”: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme rose above the chaos to make Lullabies To Paralyze

Queens Of The Stone Age posing for a photo in 2007.

Emerging from the ashes of stoner rock pioneers Kyuss in the late 1990s, Queens Of The Stone Age quickly became an ever-shifting collective of musicians revolving around singer and guitarist Josh Homme. In 2005, as the band released their fourth album Lullabies To Paralyze, Classic Rock sat down with Homme to talk about a band like no other.