The collaboration of lifelong friends Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme, Eagles of Death Metal grew from a side project into a full-fledged band with a riff-heavy, tongue-in-cheek identity of its own.

 Despite their name, the band's music is a revved-up blend of garage rock, boogie rock and hard rock, with elements of glam rock, blues rock and swamp rock added in for good measure.

Their quickly recorded 2004 debut Peace Love Death Metal introduced Hughes and Homme's music at its scrappiest, while later albums such as 2008's Heart On and 2015's Zipper Down took a more polished, but still brash, approach.

Following the terrorist attack at their 2015 show at Paris' La Bataclan that killed 89 people, Eagles of Death Metal persevered, with 2019's covers album Eagles Of Death Metal Presents Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote reflecting the music that offered Hughes solace in the wake of the attack.