Queens of the Stone Age released a steamy and violent new music video for “From The Cliff”, featuring intimate bedroom scenes and a captive man tied to a chair.
The track comes from the band’s ninth studio album, Perfecth.
- Queens of the Stone Age shared the NSFW video for “From The Cliff”, following the release of their ninth studio album Perfecth on October 30.
- The album went straight to Number One in the UK, establishing a strong commercial debut for the band’s latest era.
- The cinematic clip was co-written by frontman Josh Homme and filmmaker Nathalia Pizarro, who also directed and edited the project.
The cinematic short film begins with intimate topless bedroom scenes between Homme’s character and a woman, before revealing that the two are holding an older man captive in the next room, tied to a chair. The woman is seen stabbing the man, while his blood is plastered in hand and footprints across the apartment.
The “From The Cliff” clip continues the band’s series of elaborate videos accompanying Perfecth, following previous releases like “Easy Street” and “Where The Goth Girls At?”. Pizarro is a Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker currently working on her debut feature film, Illomen.
That upcoming feature will also star Homme alongside Sol Rodriguez, Lou Safran and Booboo Stewart, with a festival run expected to begin in spring 2027. The video itself stars Homme alongside actors Kaiman Kazazian, Natalia Safran and Steve Olson.
In NME’s four-star review, the record was described as the band’s “most intimate and adventurous work yet”, with “From The Cliff” singled out as “a finger-pickin’ good lullaby” on which Homme gives himself over to love.
“Honestly, this is a record about all the facets of love,” Homme explained in a recent interview with NME. “I don’t think that we could have or I could have written about that exclusively in the years previous, but we’re here now.”
He described the new era as the beginning of the band’s “third act”, characterised by a search for peace after years of embracing chaos and confrontation. “I think writing about family, friends, significant others, insignificant others, the immense soul-crushing brutality of heartbreak and how love is the only conduit to some semblance of hope – there are so many facets to the mental health issue that is love,” Homme said.
Meanwhile, Queens have announced North American and European dates for their 2027 Perfecth world tour, with further European and UK shows expected to be announced.
Speaking about their live plans, Homme told NME: “I think we’re going to do something that’s beyond what we’ve ever done before. 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.”
