Rock's most dangerous gang returns after 6 years with In Times New Roman, a brutally beautiful and highly complex 10-track collection packed with devastatingly delicious trap doors, richly lush production and musical blades sharpened in the friction of opposing forces.

Mithridatism is the practice of ingesting small amounts of poison with consistent frequency over a long period of time, with the eventual goal of building immunity. After the tribulations of the last several years in the world of Queens, such hard-won immunity is a fitting metaphor for the depth of potency and power of In Times New Roman.

In a stark departure from QOTSA's previous two albums, In Times New Roman has absolutely nothing to do with existential dilemmas or contemplative ambivalence. Vulnerability, uncertainty and longing have been traded out for a renewal of lava-in-the-veins certainty and purpose, the discovery that all these little sips of poison over the years have led, finally, to inoculation.

Rock's most deadly goliaths have created a brilliantly brutal new fire, and just may have discovered immortality in the process.

Queens are back.

Knives out, bitches.