Rock heavyweights Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age are joining forces for a double headline tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Queens Of The Stone Age are no strangers to New Zealand shores, having last performed here at Auckland’s Logan Campbell Centre in 2011, before canceling a second date after the Christchurch Earthquake. The band will include a visit to the Garden City on the upcoming 2014 tour.
The band fronted by Josh Homme will perform all the hits from their extensive catalogue, including last year’s Like Clockwork, produced by the band at Homme’s Pink Duck studio in Burbank California, and featuring Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor, as well as Dave Grohl and Elton John. Like Clockwork is the band’s sixth album and the first ever to reach pole position in the US.
Nine Inch Nails will have no problem coaxing industrial rock sing-a-longs if their stats of thirty million albums sold worldwide are anything to go by. The band are considered pioneers of the industrial electronic movement and recently released their eighth full length album Hesitation Marks, which is derived from marks that are produced by testing a bladed weapon before attempting suicide or self-harming. The album marks the first new music from the band in five years.
The tour will kick off in Sydney on March 6, 2014 before heading across the ditch on Wednesday 19 March at Vector Arena in Auckland and Saturday 22 March at CSB Canterbury Arena in Christchurch.
The first band to take the stage will be decided each night by a coin toss.