Eagles of Death Metal
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| Eagles of Death Metal | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Palm Desert, California, USA | |
| Genre(s) | Blues rock Garage rock revival Alternative metal |
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| Years active | 1998–present | |
| Label(s) | Rekords Rekords Downtown Records |
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| Website | eaglesofdeathmetal.net | |
| Members | ||
| Jesse "The Devil" Hughes Dave Catching Gene Trautmann Brian "Big Hands" O'Connor Josh "Baby Duck" Homme |
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Eagles of Death Metal (EODM) is an American garage rock band formed by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. While Hughes is the leader of the band, Homme is its best known member due to his history as leader of Queens of the Stone Age and as a member of Kyuss. Despite the name, Eagles of Death Metal is not a death metal band. Hughes says the name came from a response to a drunken man, who argued Poison were a death metal band; Hughes retorted that Poison were "the Eagles of death metal."[1] However, Hughes in an interview with a Polish rock magazine told another 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 it "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."[2][3]
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[edit] 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 23 2004: Peace, Love, Death Metal.
The debut album appeared to be a favourite of advertisers, as several songs from it were used in American television commercials including those for Comcast, Payless ShoeSource, Nissan Motors, Budweiser, Pontiac Motors, Wendys, as well as in the trailer for the film Thank You for Smoking.
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.
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. 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:
| “ | At first the audience refused to welcome us to the jungle, but by the time we took our final bow, it had become paradise city. Although Axl tried to November rain on our parade, no sweet child o' mine can derail the EODM night train. We say live and let die.[4] | ” |
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.[5]
Hughes has brought up during interviews that new material has been written and their third album will be released this year.
[edit] Members
[edit] Primary members
- Jesse Hughes (vocals, guitar)
- Josh Homme (drums, bass)
- Dave Catching (guitar, vocals)
- Gene Trautmann (drums)
- Brian O'Connor (bass, vocals)
[edit] Other contributors on albums and/or on tour
- Jack Black
- Joey Castillo
- Claude Coleman
- Brody Dalle
- Dave Grohl
- Taylor Hawkins
- Samantha Maloney
- Nick Oliveri
- Bryan Peterson
- Shaun Trouty
- Tim Vanhamel
- Jeff Boyles
- Mark Lanegan
- Troy Van Leeuwen
- Wendy Ramone
- Liam Lynch
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Peace, Love, Death Metal (2004)
- Death by Sexy (2006)
[edit] Singles
- "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" (2006) UK #73
- "I Gotta Feelin (Just Nineteen)"
[edit] DVD
- DVD by Sexy (2006). Making of the album Death by Sexy
[edit] Other appearances
- "The Gosso King of Crater Lake", "Hogleg" and "You Keep Talkin'" on The Desert Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4 (1998)
- Need for Speed: Carbon (2006)
- Epic Movie (2007)
[edit] References
- ^ Roe, Jon. "Spun: The Eagles of Death Metal", Spun, Gauntlet Entertainment, 2006-09-07. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Eagles of Death Metal: Death By Sexy. Amoeba Music. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Eagles of Death Metal. Manchester Academy. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Abram, Malcolm X. "Axl still parties like it's 1991", Akron Beacon-Journal, 2060-11-30. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
- ^ Scaggs, Austin (2006-11-30). Updated Smoking Section: Axl vs. Eagles of Death Metal. Rock & Roll Daily. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-02-01.
