Eagles of Death Metal- Death By Sexxxy

You should be scared. Not only is it pitched by Girlie, they'll get a bunch of charity tours, starting with being on with The Strokes.

i don't get how people say it was so 'awful'...sounds like if JH's name wasn't attached people would be jumping around and proclaiming the EoDM to be 2nd coming or something...

personally, SfTD was JH's highwater mark for me, LtP was one of the worst things of last year...
EoDM w/ the Strokes????????!

i'm speechless...no, wait...fuck that! the Strokes don't deserve to have such a good opener!!!

glad to see that J-Devil can incite some division amongst the ranks.

???
i always thought it more of a joke...not that clever of one, but a joke, none the less...

granted, it IS retarded, but it's retardedly FUN! kinda like playing old NES games.and yes, it was recorded in a little over a week.

The Devil can do no wrong.

That's crazy. Is there a link to your review?

That's crazy.

Agreed x 10000000000000000000

Someone hasn't heard Desert Sessions.

i'm with you on that...LtP leaves me pretty 'meh'd out. it's sad when the import version's by far preferable (in large part due to the cover of "Precious and Grace!".
that said, this new EoDM has me hooked. it's some wonderful spring/summer music!
nothing to think about, just enjoy. maybe that's what people don't like about them (ie- the 'novelty act'), it's nothing to think about just dumb fun.
but, honestly, don't we all need some dumb fun as sung by Ned Flanders Gone Wrong?!!?
well, maybe not all, but I DO!

i want Dessert Sessions, please. w/ coffee.

http://www.theprp.com/2010/06/16/news/eagles-of-death-metal-bassist-diagnosed-with-cancer-benefit-shows-planned/

this is still a thing.

and with possibly the worst album cover of the year ?

http://zumic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/eagles-of-death-metal-zipper-down-album-cover-art-500x500.jpg

I mean I love dirty sleaze filled grooves (hello lords of the Altamont), but seriously, this is just a shit way to represent your music.

It's being widely reported that among the attacks in Paris tonight, one target was the Bataclan, where the Eagles of Death Metal were performing a show. There's no further information at present beyond claims that a hostage situation is happening.

Apparently, they're okay:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/11/eagles_of_death_12.html

Further via the drummer's mom:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews-live/liveblog/live-updates-attacks-in-paris/#a7333113-0890-4200-ad48-01ddcc287157

what about the hostages? any news there?

Info on the ILE thread

The band has updated:

https://twitter.com/EODMofficial/status/665315341556322304

credit to the band for being clear, sincere, and saying exactly what they should say about this tragedy (as far as i can tell so far).

forgive me, but imagine the kind of shit the korn lead singer would say "why did this happen to our band, on our night?"

Shared by Mike Patton on FB:

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eagles of death metal

I don't know why I find this particularly chilling, but I do:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/eagles-of-death-metal/2015/le-bataclan-paris-france-53f50f9d.html

Kiss the Devil

(cut by terrorists attacks and shootings)

fuck.

Would that had to have been uploaded by someone who attended the concert?

Via tcote, a report from Les Inrockuptibles that their writer Guillaume B. Decherf, who had reviewed the EoDM album for them a couple of weeks ago, was one of the victims.

http://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/11/14/actualite/guillaume-b-decherf-a-ete-tue-hier-au-bataclan-11787998/

There are reports their merch guy was one of the victims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34821001

heart. broken.

Oh man, how sad
There's something about this happening at this particular band's show, like just the sheer arbitrary horror of life, like a band that doesn't even really take itself particularly seriously is more forever tied to an event that I fear will have profound consequences

Christ - I can't bring myself to read much more of this stuff. just horrifying. I'm hoping any video that did get uploaded gets taken down - out of respect.

lots of people showing their ass out there too - not that I'm shocked that everyone can't just mutually agree this is a horrible tragedy and offer their condolences like a normal human being (outside of this board, naturally)

There's something about this happening at this particular band's show, like just the sheer arbitrary horror of life, like a band that doesn't even really take itself particularly seriously is more forever tied to an event that I fear will have profound consequences

There's something particularly heartbreaking about that setlist, how you can be watching a not-even-particularly-prominent and basically non-political rock band who you would never in themselves consider to be a target, and they're playing some dumb Duran Duran cover, and maybe you recognise it and laugh along, or maybe it actually sounds pretty cool, and then five minutes later. Fuck.

Merch guy who died, Nick Alexander, was a uni buddy of some friends of ours.

The band has released a statement:

http://bit.ly/1OfgZqo

That is the perfect statment. I love & admire these guys so much.

Yeah, a good statement. I'm apprehensive though about what Jesse will have to say if he ever really opens up about this in an interview.

^I don't want to give the impression that I have anything but love for the dude and sympathy for him through this horrific nightmare. But he has had some opinions, for sure.

hyped for the first "this was a horrific tragedy but let's not lose sight of how problematic this band are" blog post, can't be long now

first weblink on this thread about the terrorist attacks has someone in a headdress ...

to the blogmachine

hyped for the first "this was a horrific tragedy but let's not lose sight of how problematic this band are" blog post, can't be long now

― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, November 18, 2015 1:33 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, perhaps one day EODM will make a musical statement as finely crafted as their twitter statement

There's some really sick shit going around about how this was "payback" for them playing in Tel Aviv...

They and their fans were just (hugely, tragically) unfortunate enough to have been at the Bataclan on the same night as the France-Germany match, which surely was the decider timing-wise. I doubt ISIS had much of an opinion on the Eagles of Death Metal per se.

Make sure to read the comments, in which conservative Christian nutbag Rod Dreher explains that while the Eagles of Death Metal's song "Kiss the Devil" may well have inspired the terrorists to attack, the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" is A-OK, 'cause it's based on litrachoor (plus, the Stones are awesome).

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2015/11/18/eagles-of-death-metal-unlikely-to-rise-again-rayner.html

"If they choose to work again, they’ll look irredeemably insensitive if they simply carry on as usual"

That's a lot of speculative bullshit.

I sure as hell hope Jesse will return to music. This year had been such a triumphant rewritten
for them after what seems like a lot of hatdship. I can't even imagine the psychological ramifications of bring a part of all that. Like, just dealing with the pain and grieving. Fuck. But I hope they find it in them to play again someday.

"Every human being on the planet within reach of the news now knows the band’s name"

Losing a member of your crew to senseless violence for no reason other than that he happened to be selling t-shirts in the wrong place at the wrong time is one thing; witnessing 89 of your fans randomly mowed down by thoughtless madmen in front of you while playing what would have been just another gig on your European tour itinerary is quite another.

I'm not sure how much they "witnessed" - the reports I read suggested they escaped through the back of the building almost as soon as the heard the gunshots, and even before then they weren't able to actually see much because of the stage lights. Although even if they saw nothing it's still an almost incomphehensibly trumatic event.

Worst ever music article thread is thataway ----->.

I doubt ISIS had much of an opinion on the Eagles of Death Metal per se.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 1:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wonder what i would have thought if i'd read this sentence one year ago

I didn't find the article that terrible; likely the editor demanded it. Did a double-take at "being laden"... don't know Rayner's work well enough to know how closely he writes.

If I had to put money on it: they'll stop touring on their own for a while but get support on the festival circuit.

A simple thinkpiece on how awful and difficult it must be for the band, but as soon as you bring in "and of course they can never play again and shame on them if you do" takes it straight through "thanks, desk jockey, how do you know so much about performing?" territory into the land of solipsistic my fear = your morality bullshit..

yeah, i read the article on the guardian website a while after it was posted.

thread BTL was full of deleted comments and closed within a very short space of time !

the thread on the bands facebook page had comments from people who were amongst the chaos, and makes for heavy reading.

http://www.vice.com/read/coming-soon-the-eagles-of-death-metal-speak-out-for-the-first-time-since-the-paris-attacks

Jesus Christ. people getting found hiding in the dressing room and slaughtered.

we played Brussels night before last under a level 3 terror threat and as we were leaving town they upped it to 4. During our show, there were one or two soldiers with machine guns strolling through the building, but when we came back in the morning to get our gear, the whole place had been handed over to soldiers: they were the ones who let us in to get our stuff. the venue then cancelled the next week of shows. there were soldiers on every corner on the way out of town.

Jesus.

Their Vice interview is now live in full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n74HBrrFnIc

no words

Not much to say, but it is well worth watching. And very, very hard to watch.

Yeah, definitely - very difficult. Made me realize it must be so hard for anyone there to speak publicly about it given the shock and trauma they might be experiencing.

exactly.
i started watching this at work today, and had to call it quits as i work in an open plan office and within a few minutes i was in bits.
not sure i could face a camera crew/interviewer this soon had i experienced such a situation.
jesse looks totally fucked up, and appears to be struggling with the emotional fallout.
hope they get to fulfil their wish re being the first band to play at the bataclan if/when it reopens.

that was so hard to watch, and so moving

jesus

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/07/458847408/eagles-of-death-metal-returns-to-paris-for-concert-appearance?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

Yeah, a good statement. I'm apprehensive though about what Jesse will have to say if he ever really opens up about this in an interview.

― how's life, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 12:29 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/bataclan_responds_to_jesse_hughes_accusations_that_security_was_in_on_paris_attacks

ugh.

The article has been updated to include his apologies by the way

i don't blame him... makes sense given his experience & headspace rn...

this guy keeps making himself less and less sympathetic

nah c'mon now, I don't share the man's politics, but if some hundreds of people came out to see me play a show, and 80 odd of them were gunned down by maniacs AT THE SHOW? MID SET? i can't even imagine reacting to that. certainly would never pick up a guitar again, and this guy came back to town to finish the show weeks later. if anybody gets a pass to say wild shit on fox news it is this guy

okay, but don't bands usually have publicists or minders who could tell him to not say that kind of wild shit for a while?

The guy contributed to conspiracy theory nonsense. I got into a brief discussion with someone who swears that six security guards called out because they knew it was coming.

I am sorry he went through what he did, but contributing to the delusional fiction of conspiracy theorists is not something I forgive very easily.

There are people who seriously believe things like he said and they use his words as "evidence" for that belief.

I'm not trying to grit on a dude who's been through an utterly horrific experience. Just that, as a fan of the band, I was worried that something like this would be coming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35797322

total apology and withdrawal of comment.

What a piece of shit

http://takimag.com/article/surrendering_to_death_gavin_mcinnes#axzz48eHFAnVC

Reads to me like Jesse is not dealing well with this at all, no matter what he claims, and is in retreating even further into the far-right nutcase/paranoia bullshit he was already suffering from. The piece of shit, as always, is McInnes. I feel bad for the club's employees and owners, and for the other bandmembers who are, for a second time, going to have to clean up after Jesse. Awful situation when someone is losing their mind in public.

Why not take him at his word about what he saw? Nothing that outlandish said there.

When the police or whoever is doing the investigating corroborate what he's saying about 'inside job' and so forth, I will take Jesse at whatever his current word is (since it changes, as we've seen). But until then, this account is, for me, something like trauma-induced motivated reasoning.

Nothing that outlandish said there.

"I just chalked it up to Arab envy. You know what I mean? When a Muslim sees a cocky American dude with tattoos, he stares at him."

A day after, at the stadium, Muslims booed the moment of silence and we barely heard about it in the press. I saw Muslims celebrating in the street during the attack. I saw it with my own eyes. In real time! How did they know what was going on? There must have been coordination.

He's not a Catholic minister. He was ordained through the Universal life Church. I'm ordained through the Universal Life Church for fucks sake.

chances of me opening a takimag link = 0.000000

if you clicked on 'Eagles of Death Metal- Death By Sexxxy' then you are in no position to sniff at takimag

ha, fair

takimag wasn't at the centre of a massive terrorist event

unfor

je serai taki

You never see bad guys in movies who are Arab terrorists. It’s always Germans or French…

Or conservative Christian rednecks. They’re apparently what’s wrong with everything in the world now, including global warming. What about the other ice age we went through? There were no Christian Republicans back then. What caused that meltdown?

The other problem with that is, when you get rid of these Christian rednecks, you create a vacuum and it gets filled with people way worse. It gets filled with Islam. You end up replacing evangelism with sharia law.

Politicians behave better when they know people are watching. We behave better when we believe Jesus is watching us.

These atheists tell us we don’t need religion, yet everyone seems to be creating flimsy substitutes to replace it. Rehab is just Lent. Meditation is just Latin Mass. Seeing a therapist is just talking to your priest.

And the thing about the Bible is it’s written down. A therapist can change his diagnosis just like that and there’s no way of calling him out on it.

flappy bird – in all honesty, and though one wouldn't wish to cast aspersions, it probably ought to be noted that you have overlooked several outlandish claims in that extract alone

seems like a great publication

HardDaysKnight • a day ago
Best article I've ever read at Taki. Well said that man.
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Hugo HardDaysKnight • a day ago
Then you need to read more articles. Taki is full of top drawer material.
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takimag has a links page! no guestbook tho, and they don't appear to belong to any webrings. sad!

http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_680/kyb8iig6mhqms8l40guf.jpg

lol i read that whole interview thinking it was the tavi girl's website and was like this is a very strange choice for this venue

I think flappy was referring specifically to hughes' experience the day of the attack, not his/taki's horrifying (outlandish even) opinions about the attack

wow fuck this guy.

World War III imminent?

Jesse Hughes: I saw fear fall like a blanket on the whole crowd and they fell like wheat in the wind—the way you would before a god. I was totally alert from the very beginning. The first thing I needed to do was find my girl. Fear took a backseat and “where’s my girl?” took over.

so did he ever find his daughter? hope she's ok.

I think flappy was referring specifically to hughes' experience the day of the attack, not his/taki's horrifying (outlandish even) opinions about the attack

― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Sunday, May 15, 2016 3:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, sorry for not being clear! i was referring to the backdoor being propped open, the security acting suspicious, letting people in. i also have empathy for him, can't imagine what he's going through, and beyond the details of what happened and what he saw happen at the bataclan, it's pretty, well, outlandish...

xp i think he's referring to his girlfriend, afaik she's ok

Make it stop.

was jesse always this nuts or is this the PTSD talking?

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/20/eagles-of-death-metal-dropped-french-festivals-terrorism/

oh sorry, already discussed.

A letter to Jesse Hughes from a fellow Bataclan survivor

gavin mcinnes is one of the most vile human beings alive right now.

Ismael El Iraki FTW

Just don't read the comments under the reprinting of the letter in the Independent.

Ismael El Iraki FTW

http://deadline.com/2016/11/colin-hanks-tells-new-documentary-about-a-band-of-friends-and-the-bataclan-terror-attack-1201846860/

would throw in pool

whyyyyy is this guy still a thing

he is the worst

It is absolutely insane to me that this band had the type of goodwill that had them on stage with U2 and had My Morning Jacket and Kings of Leon covering their songs and dude just absolutely pissed it away

I have moved on from trying to apologize for this dude and maybe give him a little time after his traumatic experience. I can't listen to EODM at all any more. They were lighthearted and fun-ish, but certainly not indispensable. This time around I'm kinda pissed at Dave Catching, who otherwise seems like a levelheaded, chill, lefty kinda dude, for not speaking out when Jesse opens his fool yap.

@jesseEODM. When I think of the good times we've had in the past it fucks my heart to see how far off the rails you've gone. Come back bro

— mark lanegan (@marklanegan) March 26, 2018

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looool

This time around I'm kinda pissed at Dave Catching, who otherwise seems like a levelheaded, chill, lefty kinda dude, for not speaking out when Jesse opens his fool yap.

Cheers, Mark. It would be nice if Dave Catching had a word or three with Jesse. I don't know either of them personally but as far as I can tell, Dave doesn't seem like the type who would agree with Jesse here and is in a good place to tell him as well. cc: @ranchodelaluna

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 27, 2018

Im out of the loop. What happened?

xp: yeah, the studio is Dave's account.

Boy looking up at Mark Lanegan's tweet there feels a bit chilling. The more so because according to this Jesse wouldn't have known about his passing because...

“The love of my life is going to die.” Eagles of Death Metal's Tuesday Cross has been in a coma for more than six weeks, and her frontman fiancé Jesse Hughes is alleging he's been blocked from seeing or communicating with her. https://t.co/qMbJCVU9OX

— billboard (@billboard) March 11, 2022

Actually change that, read it totally wrong -- I thought HE was in the coma.

Also, since I was wondering:

Although the hospital’s response does not indicate this, Hughes says Cross also tested positive for COVID, and he was told that hospital visits from family and friends were not permitted because of the risk of spreading the virus.

On the afternoon of Jan. 23, Hughes says he and Cross had cuddled on the couch in their bungalow-style home in LA’s Atwater Village as she puffed a few times on the inhaler she used to treat her asthma. She was exhausted from graffiti tagging the past few nights, and the spray-paint vapor had given her a slight cough.

Cross was “in full cardiac arrest” when ER doctors got to her and that Hughes “reported the patient had recently been smoking crack or meth.” Hughes claims that he didn’t know if she was on drugs but wanted to be safe.

in June 2021, Cross signed a document giving him power of attorney over her health care after a similar incident landed her in Glendale Memorial.

Add all that to COVID diagnosis (and assuming that she is/was as anti-vax as Jessie), this seems like a tragic, but probably avoidable outcome. I just feel bad for any of her friends and loved ones who are trying to navigate this while simultaneously having to deal with Jesse Hughes - The Human Drama Bomb.