Josh Homme discography

Josh Homme is an American rock musician, who has released 18 studio albums and has collaborated with 26 different artists. He started playing guitar in the 1980s and formed a band with Palm Desert, California school friends John Garcia and Brant Bjork, initially under the name Katzenjammer, then Sons of Kyuss, and later shortened to simply Kyuss.cite web
url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:knfuxqy5ldse~T1
title=Josh Homme biography
publisher=Allmusic
accessdate=2008-06-24 ] The band released an extended play (EP), "Sons of Kyuss" (1990), when Homme was 16, before going on to record four critically acclaimed studio albums and a greatest hits release, without breaking through to mainstream success. After the break-up of the band in 1995, Homme considered abandoning his music career, but was persuaded by vocalist Mark Lanegan to join the Screaming Trees on tour as second guitarist.

In August, 1997 Homme gathered a few musician friends at Rancho de la Luna in the Palm Desert for a weekend of collaboration called "The Desert Sessions". The experiment yielded two albums, "Volumes 1 & 2", and Homme would repeat the exercise at the Rancho with different musicians on a further four occasions over the next decade. Homme formed Queens of the Stone Age with former Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernández in 1997 (initially under the name Gamma Ray). In 1998 the Queens of the Stone Age released their debut album "Queens of the Stone Age", on which Homme performed lead vocals, guitar and bass guitar. Queens of the Stone Age would adopt a fluid line-up, with dozens of members joining and leaving as the band developed while Homme remained the only permanent member, releasing several EPs and compilations, a DVD, as well as four more studio albums, including the break-through "Songs for the Deaf" (2002).

The Eagles of Death Metal started out as an impromptu collaboration on the Desert Sessions' 1998 release "", but became a full-time band with the recording and release of their debut album, "Peace, Love, Death Metal", in 2004.cite web
url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:knfuxqy5ldse~T1
title=Eagles of Death Metal biography
publisher=Allmusic
accessdate=2008-06-24 ] The original line-up included Homme on the drums and childhood friend Jesse "The Devil" Hughes on lead vocals and guitar, although Homme rarely tours with the band due to his commitments with Queens of the Stone Age. In 2006, Eagles of Death Metal released its second studio album, "Death by Sexy", which became their first album to chart on the "Billboard" 200.

Outside of his full-time projects, Homme has appeared on the releases of several bands, including "Deep in the Hole" (2001) and "Flak 'n' Flight" (2003) by Masters of Reality, "Cocaine Rodeo" (2000) and "A Drug Problem That Never Existed" (2003) by Queens of the Stone Age sideproject Mondo Generator, Foo Fighters' "In Your Honor" (2005) and Peaches' "Impeach My Bush" (2006).

Album appearances

With Kyuss

With Eagles of Death Metal

Collaborations

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