EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
BY LISA MROCK
Eagles of Death Metal will never escape its instant association with the unspeakably horrific Bataclan massacre, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still want to have fun. The high-flying collaboration of Jesse Hughes and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme is of course not a death metal band but, misnomer aside, they continue to rock just as hard. Released in late 2015, their fourth LP Zipper Down’s album art is a topless woman unzipping a leather jacket and Hughes’ and Homme’s faces covering the left and right nipples, respectively — that is literally all you need to know. However, if you do want to know more, know that “Got a Woman” is a raucous party anthem filled with their trademark dystopian desert guitar fury and balls-to-the-wall testosterone-fueled bravado.
