Queens of the Stone Age frontman reveals he had cancer surgery

Singer and guitarist Josh Homme, laminitis of stone set Queens of the Stone Age, has revealed helium was diagnosed with crab past year.

Homme told Revolver: "Cancer is conscionable the cherry connected apical of an absorbing clip period, you know? I'm highly thankful that I'll get done this."

The 50-year-old has not disclosed what benignant of crab it was.

"I ne'er accidental it can't get immoderate worse," helium told the magazine. "I ne'er accidental that, and I wouldn't counsel it. But I bash accidental it tin get better."

He added: "There's a batch of worldly I privation to do. And there's a batch of radical I privation to bash that with."

Homme spoke pursuing a tumultuous respective years, which has besides seen the deaths of respective adjacent friends and a bitter divorcement and custody conflict with Distillers vocalist Brody Dalle, with the brace accusing each different of carnal abuse.

Asked astir Dalle by Revolver, helium said: "I would ne'er speech atrocious astir the parent of my children. And I volition not speech astir my children."

Homme present has custody of the 3 children, who volition travel him connected the Euoropean dates of the Queens of the Stone Age's circuit this summer.

He told Revolver helium was determined to get backmost connected the road. "When I'm connected tour, I'm backmost connected the streets wherever I belong," helium said. "I'm not specified a caged carnal retired there."

Queens of the Stone Age are astir to merchandise their eighth workplace medium titled In Times New Roman... and volition play a drawstring of UK dates including the Glastonbury Festival aboriginal this month.

However, the set volition walk little clip connected the roadworthy than successful erstwhile medium cycles truthful helium tin walk much clip astatine location with his family. "Things person changed a small spot for me. However agelong I spell away, I indispensable travel backmost for astatine slightest that magnitude of time," helium said.

Queens of Stone Age person had 3 Grammy nominations and won an NME grant for champion unrecorded band. Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters played the drums connected No One Knows, 1 of their astir palmy songs.

Homme besides co-founded Eagles of Death Metal, with whom helium plays the drums.