Eagles of Death Metal

Eagles of Death Metal
Eagles of Death Metal performing in Atlanta, Georgia in 2006.
Background information
Origin	Palm Desert, California, USA
Genre(s)	Blues-rock Garage rock revival Hard rock
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Rekords Rekords Downtown Records Gun Records
Associated acts	Queens Of The Stone Age
Website	eaglesofdeathmetal.net
Members
Jesse "The Devil" Hughes Josh "Baby Duck" Homme
Former members
(see below)

Eagles of Death Metal (EofDM) is an American band formed by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Despite the name, Eagles of Death Metal is not a death metal band. Hughes in an interview with a Polish rock magazine Teraz Rock told the story of the band's name. He said that his friend, Lou, was trying to make Josh Homme like death metal. When he played Vader, Homme called them "The Eagles of death metal." Later, Josh Homme inspired him to write music that he thought would be The Eagles crossed with death metal, and their debut album was the result. In a 2003 interview Homme described the sound of the band as a combination of "bluegrass slide guitar mixed with stripper drum beats and Canned Heat vocals." Jesse Hughes is known and somewhat loved by fans for his over-enthusiastic and charismatic interaction with audiences at live performances.^[1][2]

Biography

Eagles of Death Metal formed in Palm Desert, California in 1998 and first appeared on Josh Homme's The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, released that year. Over the next few years, Homme became distracted from the band due to the success of Queens of the Stone Age. However, the band finally released an album on March : Peace, Love, Death Metal. The debut album appeared to be a favorite of advertisers, as several songs from it were used in American television commercials including those for Ask.Com Comcast, Payless ShoeSource, Nissan Motors, Budweiser, Pontiac Motors, Wendys, as well as in the trailer for the film Thank You for Smoking and for a promotional disc for the film Grindhouse which was available prior to the film's release at Hot Topic stores. The first song on the album, "I Only Want You," was also used on the soundtrack for the PS2 game Gran Turismo 4. Globe Shoes, a manufacturer of skateboard shoes, has featured the song in the montage section of episode 1 in their new series of skate films entitled, United By Fate. Recently, the track "Chase the Devil" from the album Death by Sexy was included in the soundtrack for Tony Hawk's Project 8. Not only that, the track "Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang!)" was part of the soundtrack for Electronic Arts Need for Speed: Carbon. Recently, "Cherry Cola" was used in a Microsoft Zune commercial, and "Don't Speak" was featured in "Epic Movie", where the band is seen playing it live. The band returned on April 11, 2006 with their second effort Death by Sexy. During the first half of 2006 they toured in support of The Strokes and headlined their own U.S. tour with openers The Giraffes followed by dates opening for Peaches. Since then, they have performed with Joan Jett and were recently supposed to go on tour with Guns N' Roses. In their first concert with Guns N' Roses, a concert in Cleveland, Ohio on November 24, 2006, the band was not well received by the crowd at all. When Axl Rose came out to perform, he asked the crowd if they enjoyed "the Pigeons of Shit Metal," and announced that the show would be their last with Guns N' Roses. Shortly thereafter the band released a statement regarding the incident:

They took further stabs at Guns N' Roses, claiming that there was aggravation between Axl Rose and Tommy Stinson (the bassist of GN'R). Later they also claimed that Rose had invited the band back for the rest of their scheduled dates as support act.^[4] The band also received full payment for the entire tour despite playing only a single show with the band. Hughes has brought up during interviews that new material has been written and their third album will be released this year. Currently, their website states that the album will be released in 2008.^[5] In a recent Rolling Stone interview on rollingstone.com, Josh Homme has noted that the new album will be titled Heart On, as the new material had been written on their tour through the heartland, which is where they got their "heart-on."

Members

Members

• Jesse Hughes AKA: The Devil/Boots Electric (vocals, guitar, percussion)
• Josh Homme AKA: Carlo Von Sexron / Baby Duck (drums, guitar, bass, keys)

Current Live members

• Jesse Hughes (guitar, vocals)
• Dave Catching (guitar)
• Brian O'Connor (bass, vocals)
• Gene Trautmann (drums)

Other contributors on albums and/or on tour

• Jack Black
• Joey Castillo
• Claude Coleman
• Brody Dalle
• Dave Grohl
• Taylor Hawkins
• Samantha Maloney
• Nick Oliveri
• Tim Vanhamel
• Mark Lanegan
• Matt McGrath
• Troy Van Leeuwen
• Wendy Ray Fowler a.k.a Wendy Ramone a.k.a Wendy Ray Moan (backing vocals on Death by Sexy)^[6]
• Jack Black a.k.a JB (as above)^[6]
• Liam Lynch
• Stefan Olsdal of Placebo played bass with them when the two bands toured together in 2003.

Discography

Albums

• Peace, Love, Death Metal (2004)
• Death by Sexy (2006) US #113
• Heart On (2008)

Singles

• "I Only Want You" (2004) US #198 UK #87
• "Speaking In Tongues" (2004) US #232
• "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" (2006) UK #73
• "I Gotta Feelin (Just Nineteen)" (2006)
• "Cherry Cola" (2006)

DVD

• DVD by Sexy (2006). Making of the album Death by Sexy

Other appearances

• "The Gosso King of Crater Lake", "Hogleg" and "You Keep Talkin'" on The Desert Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4 (1998)
• "I Only Want You" in Gran Turismo 4
• "Don't Speak (I Came To Make A Bang!)" in Need for Speed: Carbon and Epic Movie (2007)
• "Speaking In Tongues" (Supernatural: Episode 1x01 - Pilot)(2005)
• Ask.com Commercial
• "Stuck In The Metal" (Wendy's Commercial)

References

External links

• Official site
• Live photos from their show in Italy - February 21st 2007
• Live photos from their show at Pukkelpop '06