Artist: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Album: ERA VULGARIS (CD)

Release date: 2007
EAN/UPS: 0602517353671
Media type: CD

Era Vulgaris is the fifth full length studio album by American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. The album was completed in early April 2007 and released on June 8, 2007 in some countries, June 11, 2007 in the UK and June 12, 2007 in the U.S. The tracks "Sick, Sick, Sick" and "3's & 7's" were released as singles in early June, with a third single "Make It Wit Chu" expected around Halloween of 2007.

The album debuted at number fourteen on the U.S. Billboard 200 charts selling 52,000 copies in its first week, which was a decline in comparison to the previous album, which opened at number 5 with 91,000 copies sold in its debut week. In other countries it has reached much loftier debut positions, mostly in the top ten, such as number five in Canada where it sold approximately 10,000 copies in its opening week. The album debuted at number nine at United World Chart, selling approximately 149,000 copies worldwide in its first week.

TRACKLIST:

1 Turnin' on the Screw
2 Sick, Sick, Sick
3 I'm Designer
4 Into the Hollow
5 Misfit Love
6 Battery Acid
7 Make It Wit Chu
8 3's & 7's
9 Suture Up Your Future
10 River in the Road
11 Run, Pig, Run

LINE-UP:

Joshua Homme – vocals (lead, backing), guitar (lead, acoustic, electric), percussion, bass guitar, lap steel guitar, piano (electric, rhodes, "badly tuned"), organ, "percussion ball"
Troy van Leeuwen – keyboard, guitar (lead, "crazy delay"), lap steel, backing vocals, bass, "the percussion part that's a bitch", Moog, rhodes
Joey Castillo – drums, percussion
Alain Johannes – bass, guitar (acoustic, counterpoint, harmonic), fiddle (counterpoint, "cig"), marxaphone, backing vocals
Chris Goss – keyboard, "the chicken pluckin guitar", "twinkley bits", organ, piano (electric, "eclectic"), backing vocals

Julian Casablancas – casio guitar, vocals
Serrina Sims – backing vocals
Brody Dalle-Homme – backing vocals
Liam Lynch – backing vocals
Mark Lanegan – harmony vocals