The album has been described as "a little looser and more uptempo than their last release. In addition to this, several snippets of songs have been featured in teaser trailers released online in promotion of the album, including a short clip of the album's opening track, "Feet Don't Fail Me", as well as an a cappella from the intro to the same song. "The Evil Has Landed" was released as a single on August 10, 2017. The album's final track, "Villains of Circumstance", was first premiered by Homme in 2014 at an acoustic concert for James Lavelle's Meltdown Festival, while "The Evil Has Landed" was performed by the band during their first gig of 2017 on June 22 at The Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, New York. Several of the songs from the album were previewed in some form prior to its release. At the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony, it was nominated for Best Rock Album, losing to The War on Drugs' A Deeper Understanding. The album received widely positive reviews and performed well commercially, topping Billboard 's Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts.
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Villains is the first Queens of the Stone Age album to not feature any special guest musicians, the second to not feature Mark Lanegan, and the first to feature Jon Theodore as full time member of the band. The first single, " The Way You Used to Do", was released the following day along with the announcement of a world tour. The album was announced on June 14, with a teaser trailer taking the form of a comedy skit featuring the band performing a polygraph test with Liam Lynch. Villains is the seventh studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on Augthrough Matador.