In an interview with BBC radio 1 in London recently, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme that the band's fifth album will be in stores before the end of 2011.  "We're going to take our one last break that we would get for a month, come back and do Glastonbury, then immediately jump in the studio. Our record will be done by the end of the year. We have enough songs," Homme explained.

 The album will be the band's sixth overall and first in four years as the band members have worked on side projects, icluding Homme's involvement in the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones.