Burn the Witch
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| Single by Queens of the Stone Age | ||
| from the album Lullabies to Paralyze | ||
| Released | January 10, 2006 | |
| Genre | Stoner metal Hard rock |
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| Length | 3:38 | |
| Label | Universal Music Group | |
| Writer(s) | Joey Castillo Joshua Homme Troy Van Leeuwen |
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| Producer(s) | Joe Barresi Joshua Homme |
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| Queens of the Stone Age singles chronology | ||
| "In My Head" (2005) |
"Burn the Witch" (2005) |
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"Burn the Witch" is the third single released from Queens of the Stone Age's fourth album, Lullabies to Paralyze. Many of its lyrics run parallel with the dark, folkloristic theme for this album. It has been introduced by Josh Homme when played live as his favorite current song.[citation needed]
Along with "You've got a killer scene there, man...", it borrows heavily from the blues, probably due to the fact that ZZ Top's legendary guitarist and singer Billy Gibbons appears on lead guitar and backup vocals. Gibbons also plays on a cover of his own band's "Precious and Grace", a bonus track on the album.
The song involves an exchange of vocal lines between the falsetto of Homme and the twin baritones of Gibbons and Mark Lanegan. Gibbons does not regularly tour with the band, so the other vocal was performed by Lanegan, until he stopped touring with the band. Currently, Josh Homme sings alone with backing vocals from the rest of the band, who lack either of the studio musicians' deep growls. In the current line-up, Homme plays bass and Alain Johannes plays a quite different version of Gibbons' solo.
[edit] Track listing
- "Burn the Witch" (Castillo, Homme, Van Leeuwen) - 3:38
- "No One Knows" [live] (Homme, Lanegan) - 7:49
- "I Wanna Make It Wit Chu" [live] (Homme, Johannes, Melchiando) - 4:29
- "Monsters in the Parasol" [live] (Homme, Lalli) - 4:34
- "Burn the Witch" [multimedia track] (Castillo, Homme, Van Leeuwen) - 5:38
[edit] Personnel
- Joe Barresi - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Josh Homme - Producer, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar licks
- Troy Van Leeuwen - Lap steel guitar
- Joey Castillo - Drums
- Alain Johannes - Guitar, Engineer
- Mark Lanegan - Vocals
- Billy Gibbons - Lead Guitar, Vocals
- Liam Lynch - Video Producer, Video Director
| Queens of the Stone Age |
| Joshua Homme | Joey Castillo | Troy Van Leeuwen | Alain Johannes |
| Dave Grohl | Nick Oliveri | Natasha Shneider | Dave Catching | Mark Lanegan | Alfredo Hernandez | Gene Trautmann | Brendon McNichol | John McBain |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: Queens of the Stone Age | Rated R | Songs for the Deaf | Lullabies to Paralyze | Era Vulgaris |
| EPs: Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age | Stone Age Complications |
| Singles: "If Only" | "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" | "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" | "No One Knows" | "Go with the Flow" | "First It Giveth" | "Little Sister" | "In My Head" | "Burn the Witch" |
| DVDs: Over the Years and Through the Woods |
| Related articles |
| Kyuss | The Desert Sessions | Eagles of Death Metal | Mondo Generator | Screaming Trees | Rekords Rekords |
| Categories |
| Queens of the Stone Age Albums | Queens of the Stone Age Songs |
