Culture 3 min read By Mason Emerson
Queens of the Stone Age releasar video «From The Cliff» co-written by Josh Homme
Queens of the Stone Age have released a provocative video for «From The Cliff», the track from their ninth studio album «Perfecth», co-written by Josh Homme and directed by Nathalia Pizarro.
Queens of the Stone Age have released the music video for «From The Cliff», a track from their ninth studio album «Perfecth», and the clip is anything but subtle. Co-written by frontman Josh Homme and Nathalia Pizarro, who also directed and edited the film, the video moves from intimate bedroom scenes into a darker storyline that ends in violence.
The clip stars Homme alongside Kaiman Kazazian, Natalia Safran and Steve Olson. It opens with close, intimate moments inside a bedroom before revealing an older man held captive. The turn in the plot escalates quickly: a woman stabs the captive, and blood smears across the apartment. The video is labelled NSFW, a warning that reflects its graphic content, and the filmmakers have chosen to let the contrast between tenderness and brutality drive the story rather than relying on spectacle alone.
«From The Cliff» is one of the lead cuts from «Perfecth», which was released on October 30 and debuted at No. 1 in the UK. NME gave the album four stars and described it as the band's most intimate work to date. Homme has said the record explores all facets of love, and he has described the current chapter of the band as their «third act», a framing that positions the new material as a deliberate reset in the group's long run.
The video continues a run of visual projects tied to the album, following earlier clips «Easy Street» and «Where The Goth Girls At?». Pizarro, a Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker, has taken on a central creative role across this visual series, handling directing and editing on this clip while co-writing it with Homme. Her debut feature, «Illomen», is expected to reach festivals in spring 2027, extending her work from music video into longer-form storytelling.
The band has also announced dates for a 2027 «Perfecth» world tour covering North America and Europe. The first legs will take Queens of the Stone Age to Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, markets that set the opening sequence of the tour. Further European and UK dates are expected later in the cycle, and a co-headline bill with Interpol is planned for Mexico City, pairing two long-running acts on a single date.
Source: nme.com
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