![]() ![]() Devil (or The Devil), Boots Electric, Fabulous Weapon and many others. Hughes and Homme both liked the idea of an outfit that could stray as far from the usual music business rulebook as possible. Beefy Josh became his protector and after a few years apart the two formed the band in 1998. The origins of EODM go back to shared school days when Josh Homme befriended Jesse Everett Hughes who had moved to Palm Desert from Greenville, South Carolina and was being bullied at school. This is one band it would be rude to ignore. Funny, agreeably flash and with crossover appeal to spare (they’ve toured with Arctic Monkeys and Led Zep’s John Paul Jones) the core members, all of whom adopt aliases in the manner of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Parliament/Funkadelic, are also serious enough to justify your indulgence. If you love Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Ween and, er, Duran Duran (they’ve covered the Le Bon boys “Save a Prayer” on Zipper Down) and also have a penchant for the speaking in tongues grooves of the new wave of Deep South bands then everything below should jerk your chain just nice. ![]() Generally considered to be a band for the connoisseur, EODM are an addictive pleasure. Indeed, among the 89 dead was the group’s merchandise manager, though the band escaped unhurt via a backstage exit. ![]() Of course, they also attained a different form of attention during the tragic events that unfolded at Le Bataclan club in Paris on 13 November 2015, when the audience was attacked by terrorists. Their four studio albums to date, from Peace, Love, Death Metal to the most recent Zipper Down have given them critical kudos and substantial cult notoriety with everything coming to fruition on the brilliant single “Wannabe in LA”. Desert rockers Eagles of Death Metal crawled out of the Palm Desert, California haze in 1998 when Jesse Hughes and the prodigious Josh Homme decided to form a conceptual outlet for their musical idiosyncrasies – both the elements in their name and a desire to construct a garage meets southern rock variation on early Canned Heat. ![]()
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