Queens of the Stone Age is hoping to score its first Grammy Award, or awards, this weekend. The group has been nominated three times before without taking home a trophy; at this year's 66th Annual Grammy Awards it's up for Best Rock Album for "In New Times Roman" and Best Rock Song for the band-written "Emotion Sickness." The group's Dean Fertita tells us that Queens didn't think about awards potential while making its eighth studio album, but it did have a firm idea of what it wanted "In New Times Roman" to sound like: "We knew sonically it was gonna be pretty heavy and look for the brutal guitar sounds and as raw as we can make it, a record as we have made as a group. We had no other choice considering everything we were kind of dealing with. It just seemed the only way to really tap into it, right?" SOUNDCUE :27 "In New Times Roman" was made while Queens, like everyone else, was unable to tour during the pandemic.