Commenting on the last Queens of the Stone Age album, their former bassist, Nick Oliveri (sacked by Josh Homme in a divorce messy even by rock's standards), said he'd been hoping for something a touch more guitar-heavy. This sounds like a deliberate diss, but he was, in fact, offering to rejoin the band at the time. The fact that Mondo Generator was another group the pair had formed complicated matters further. With his name now above the title, Oliveri duly unleashes the heavy axes, to wonderfully bracing and completely inane effect. Subtle it ain't; yet, on giant slabs of feral metal such as Lie Detector and So High, Oliveri is as deranged and magnificent as someone with his troubled track record should be.
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