Eagles of Death Metal
Peace Love Death Metal

THE REVIEW

AHAHAHAHAHA. AHAHAHAHAHA. Well ahhahahaha let’s have this third laugh too! 

If a CD by a band with a name like "Eagles of Death Metal," with a light blue-pink cover and various poses of a hand making the horns & co, appears in front of your eyes, you either think it’s some group of gay metalheads, or you wonder what that enigmatic package hides. Once you’ve placed the CD in the player and hit play, you hear a rock and roll rhythm, guitars straight out of a Tarantino movie, and a very comical and suave voice (ironically).

At this point, there are two reactions:

1. If you’ve paid 20 euros (downloading it would be better) for the CD and you didn’t like it at all because you hate Elvis and feel mocked, you will throw the disc to the ground and stomp on it, cursing the seller who pushed it on you.
2. You start tapping your hands on anything (table, legs, pots) to keep up with that cheerful rhythm and will try to emulate the mustachioed singer of EODM, loving him as an idol, a new god of RnR.

Let’s say I didn’t have either reaction, for a certain reason: I picked up the disc aware that it was Rock and Roll peppered with irony, but instead of keeping time on a pot, I was about to prepare dinner.
So, after successive listens, I realized I had in my hands the amazing creation of Josh Homme, (who financed the production of the album) who, in his spare time, while recording "Lullabies to Paralyze," had committed to playing the drums to let loose in this side project with his mustachioed friend, another (?) genius mind of the Eagles of Death Metal, not to mention a far from virtuoso guitarist.

Speaking of the album, apart from a few songs that stand out from the crowd, the others turn out to be quite repetitive and on the same line as the others, but the idea deserves credit. In the song lyrics, the two indulge in building tragicomic sexually-themed situations that verge on perversion.

For fans of Queens of the Stone Age & Nick Olivieri and Mondo Generator, the album is more than recommended, indeed essential, especially if you appreciated the famous "Desert Session"; on the contrary, if you are not a fan of QOTSA and you see it in a store, on the shelf, at the letter "E" unless it costs 10 euros, it’s not worth buying, you would be disappointed.

But if you like a bit of good old RnR, then go wild with these madmen, they won’t disappoint you.