Queens of The Stone Age annonserte i fjor at de tok en pause, og har kun spilt en konsert i 2016.

Troy Van Leeuwen sier i sin egen podcast at bandet skal i studio i løpet 2016 for å starte innspillingen av det neste QOTSA-albumet.

“We’ve already started talking about what we’re gonna do next for the next Queens record,” sa Van Leeuwen. “There’s tons of ideas that are bouncing around … We’re going to do something before the end of the year, as far as recording goes.”

“We’re excited to get back together to follow-up …Like Clockwork, which was a really, really big record for us, personally,” he added. “It was a big record for us ’cause it was the hardest record to make. And we’re trying to not do that again. We just want to keep things simpler and try that, I guess.”

Siden sist har Josh Homme spilt inn nytt album med Eagles of Death Meal og Iggy Pop, mens Troy Van Leeuwen har gitt ut skive med supergruppa Gone Is Gone (med medlemmer fra Mastodon/At The Drive-In/QOTSA)

I følge en tidligere intervju med Josh Homme er det den samme line-upen som på "Like Clockwork" fra 2013, som også blir med i studio denne gangen.