Listen to the Eagles of Death Metal's new album "Heart On" and you too will be in rock n'roll love.*
The Eagles of Death Metal are an American garage rock band from California formed by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme in 1998. Although the bands name seems to hint that the music is "death metal", it is not.
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The band acquired their name when a friend of Homme's was trying to introduce the death metal genre to
him. When the friend played a death metal band for Homme, he called them "the Eagles of death metal". After hearing this phrase Homme wondered what a cross between the band the Eagles and death metal would sound like. His curiosity therefore led him to create a band that was, well, a cross between the smooth-bluegrass-slide-guitar sounds of the Eagles mixed with stripper-drum-beats-and-hard-vocals of the death metal genre.
him. When the friend played a death metal band for Homme, he called them "the Eagles of death metal". After hearing this phrase Homme wondered what a cross between the band the Eagles and death metal would sound like. His curiosity therefore led him to create a band that was, well, a cross between the smooth-bluegrass-slide-guitar sounds of the Eagles mixed with stripper-drum-beats-and-hard-vocals of the death metal genre.*
The band took off on the "Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4" album in 1998; but because Homme's was distracted with his other band Queens of the Stone Age, he stopped paying attention almost completely to his project The Eagles of Death Metal.
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Then in 2004 The Eagles of Death Metal finally released their debut album. Some of their songs were featured in television commercials, video games, and movies. But their true fame has come from their latest album "Heart On" which was released late 2008. They then toured in 2009, quickly gaining popularity. *
The Eagles of Death Metal have announced that they will be part of Milwaukee's new music festival "Verge" on June 4, 2010.
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