Burn the Witch

Infobox Single
Name = Burn the Witch


Artist = Queens of the Stone Age
from Album = Lullabies to Paralyze
B-side =
Released = January 10, 2006
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Blues-rock Hard rock Stoner rock
Length = 3:38
Label = Universal Music Group
Writer = Joey Castillo Joshua Homme Troy Van Leeuwen
Producer = Joe Barresi Joshua Homme
Certification =
Last single = "In My Head" (2005)
This single = "Burn the Witch" (2006)
Next single = "Sick, Sick, Sick" (2007)

"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.Fact|date=February 2007

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 previous line-up, Homme played bass and Alain Johannes played a quite different version of Gibbons' solo. This song was also featured in and on the soundtrack of 'Saw II.'

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

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