It’s been more than three decades since Kyuss, the cornerstone of the Palm Desert stoner rock movement, quietly unraveled. And if you asked Josh Homme a few years ago, a reunion wasn’t just unlikely — it was off the table. But something’s changed. In a recent fan interview conducted by Kyuss World founder Nathan Lawver, the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman signaled an unexpected openness to revisiting his past.
“I know I thought about it many times… I think about it,” Homme said when asked directly about the possibility of a Kyuss reunion (via Blabbermouth). “I’ve actually talked about it a few times to people who help me do stuff.”
It’s a notable shift for someone who once took legal action to stop his former bandmates from resurrecting the name. When Brant Bjork, John Garcia, and Nick Oliveri formed Kyuss Lives! in the early 2010s, Homme responded with a federal lawsuit, challenging their use of the Kyuss name. Even now, he’s candid about how the whole thing left a mark.
“I don’t know. I just feel like the punctuation of Kyuss — it was such a perfect little unit, and it ended the way it should,” Homme said. “And [I] was totally in support of what was happening in Kyuss Lives! and things like that. It was just that there were some tricky things that were pulled… I think it’s good for people to know what happened. But it always left me with a strange feeling, because it’s like, you wanna set things right.”
Still, Homme now seems less interested in relitigating the past: “There’s no reason to hold on to anything negative,” he said. “I don’t have negative feelings about anybody. None of that stuff matters. So, yeah, it’s possible.”
For Brant Bjork, the possibility of reconciliation might be complicated by how things ended. In 2022, he shared that the fallout still stings: “I guess, technically, spiritually, literally… What happened was a real shame, and that broke my heart,” Bjork said. “Kyuss was very dysfunctional, but that’s what made the music, really.”
Nick Oliveri, too, has questioned the logic behind the lawsuit that put an end to Kyuss Lives!, especially given the band’s deep fan base and enduring influence.
“The fans wanted us to play. I wish we were able to play. But I don’t have any ownership or stake in the name,” Oliveri explained. “Brant came up with the name; he didn’t have ownership in it. He left the band at one point. The existing members registered the name. So it’s just as simple as that. I kind of feel a lot of different ways about it.”
Then he added a line that cuts to the heart of the matter: “I feel like, why do you wanna own the name if you wanna kill the band? Let us run with it and have a good time. We’re playing the songs with all respect to the music that we can, as close to it as we can. And the fans, we owe it to ’em.”
Whether Kyuss ever reunites — onstage, in the studio, or simply as friends — remains uncertain. But for the first time in years, the conversation feels less like a court deposition and more like a real possibility.
