Peace Love Death Metal is at its best when the inside joke is buried deep in the music, but whenever the deathtongue is planted squarely in the deathcheek, the songs turn not just silly, but lumbering and self-indulgent, overburdened by the overriding concept.
The trade-off, however, is a spontaneity and resourcefulness that adds honky-tonk piano to "Wastin' My Time", beat-keeping finger snaps to "San Berdoo Sunburn", and four false starts to "English Girl". The stripped-down instrumentation and live-in-the-studio recording occasionally sound thin, as if you could turn the volume all the way up to 11 and it still wouldn't be loud enough. On the lead-off track, "I Only Want You", he lays out his dishonorable intentions: "I'm not really interested in what's in your heart/ I don't want you to fall in love with me so don't start." Elsewhere, Hughes promises that his good lovin' will leave you babbling in religious ecstasy on "Speaking in Tongues", and even offers an articulate demonstration as he sings, "Muh-muh-muh-muh-oooh-da-galing-ling-ling-ling-da-da" over the bridge.īacking up this self-conscious braggadocio are bundles of bandsaw riffs that add enough edgy swagger to skirt outright garage-rock parody. While the connection between Hughes and Homme goes way back, the band's fraudulent nomenclature and misleading identities- along with the general one-off vibe of the album- suggest that Peace Love Death Metal is really the sonic manifestation of an elaborate inside joke, in this case possibly fueled by either "nicotinevaliumvicadanmarijuannaecstasyalcoholc-c-c-cocaine" or just an appreciation of cartoonish rock clichés.Īdopting a bluesy loverman persona that at times, intentionally or not, recalls Jon Spencer, Hughes sings most of the songs in a jokey falsetto that would be unbearable if he didn't occasionally dip into a Elvis-channeling low-end grumble. Everett Hughes, a friend of Homme's from Palm Desert, CA, while Von Sexron is an alias for both Josh Homme and (as the nickname's initials hint) Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle. Devil Huge on guitar/vocals and Carlo Von Sexron (nickname: Baby Duck) on drums/backing vocals.
Which makes sense: Queens frontman Josh Homme is listed as producer on Peace Love Death Metal.īut who are the Eagles of Death Metal? The liner notes credit J. Instead, the record's churning guitars and hook-driven choruses suggest a bizarro-world version of Queens of the Stone Age, specifically the Nuggets-inflected "Another Love Song" from Songs for the Deaf or their cover of "Who'll Be the Next in Line?" from the Kinks tribute This Is Where I Belong. The Eagles of Death Metal may be the most misleading bandname since 10,000 Maniacs: On their debut album, Peace Love Death Metal, the band sound like neither The Eagles (a relief) nor death metal.
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