Burn the Witch (Queens of the Stone Age song)

"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.

Along with "You've Got a Killer Scene There, Man...", it borrows heavily from the blues. ZZ Top's 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 previous line-up, Homme played bass and Alain Johannes played a quite different version of Gibbons' solo. This song (its remix by UNKLE) was also featured in and on the soundtrack of Saw II. This song is also featured in the trailer to the fourth season of the HBO series True Blood.

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, Melchiondo) - 4:29
"Monsters in the Parasol" [live] (Homme, Lalli) - 4:34
"Burn the Witch" [multimedia track] (Castillo, Homme, Van Leeuwen) - 5:38

All the live tracks are taken from Over the Years and Through the Woods DVD/CD.

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
Jack Black - Marching
Liam Lynch - Video Producer, Video Director

Music video

The Music video features Josh Homme, Brody Dalle, Troy Van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo, Chris Goss, Wendy Rae Fowler, Jesse Hughes, Alain Johannes, Natasha Shneider, Billy Gibbons and Serrina Sims.

References

External links

Queens of the Stone Age

Josh Homme

Troy Van Leeuwen

Michael Shuman

Dean Fertita

Jon Theodore

Studio albums

Extended plays

Live albums

Singles

Rated R	"The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Songs for the Deaf	"No One Knows" "Go with the Flow" "First It Giveth"

Lullabies to Paralyze	"Little Sister" "In My Head" "Burn the Witch"

Era Vulgaris	"Sick, Sick, Sick" "3's & 7's" "Make It wit Chu"

...Like Clockwork	"My God Is the Sun" "I Sat by the Ocean" "The Vampyre of Time and Memory" "Smooth Sailing"

Non-album	"Never Say Never" "Era Vulgaris" "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died"

DVDs

Over the Years and Through the Woods

Articles	Discography Contributors Fififf Teeners Rekords Rekords

Bands	Kyuss The Desert Sessions Them Crooked Vultures Eagles of Death Metal Mondo Generator Masters of Reality Screaming Trees Mark Lanegan Band Foo Fighters A Perfect Circle Sweethead The Wondergirls Danzig Eleven UNKLE The Waxwings The Dead Weather Wires on Fire Mini Mansions Hello=Fire The Mars Volta One Day as a Lion

Releases	Heavy Metal 2000 OST Alpha Motherfuckers Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys OST Chimes of Freedom Sound City: Real to Reel Post Pop Depression

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