Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal Release Date : March 23, 2004 Label: Ant Acid Audio Rating: 3.996 / 5 Oh yeah. Oh hell yeah. I ask you, how many garage bands are out there, kickin' around ideas, trying to parlay their basic playing into some sort of catchy demo tape? Millions? Billions? Trillions? I really don't know. What I do know is that every single one of those million, billion, trillion, garage bands out there should pick up Peace Love Death Metal post-haste. In all honesty, this brilliant little CD should be the text book for every wanna-be lo-fi rocker out there. Enter Eagles of Death Metal, a side project featuring Queens Of The Stone Age front man Josh Homme, and life-long pal Jessie "The Devil" Hughes. Homme resigns from his signature guitar and vocal role, and instead hides behind a drum kit, while Hughes takes on the front man role of the band. The surprising result is 15 tracks of pure lo-fi bliss. Anyone who checks out the Peace Love Death Metal disk will be quick to note that there isn't a sonic second of death metal on the album. Rather a series of short, cock-sure, bluey-rock jams. Urban legend has it that these jams were the creative output from a sticky divorce which Hughes found himself slugging through. The premise was simple - the divorce wore him thin. He no longer felt alive, or sexy. These songs became his symbol of rebirth. As a listener it's impossible not to feel Hughes' sermon riddled with bravado. Overall, there is only one verb to describe the disk: Strut. I'm not kidding… Do you remember that scene at the start of Saturday Night Fever, where a tight-panted John Travolta confidently strides down the street, as "Stayin' Alive" played as his backing soundtrack? Yeah? Well, that was all bullshit. They should have played "Speaking in Tongues" by the Eagles Of Death Metal… yeah, there's no disco sensibility, but there's pure unquestioned confidence rattling from the guitar amps here. This CD begs to be positioned as the soundtrack to your summer of 2004. Rest assured the first time you throw Peace Love Death Metal in your car stereo, the music will grab you and you'll instantly find yourself racing 20 miles over the speed limit. It's just that compelling. -Rob Anand Elsewhere Eagles of Death Metal website Published : June 4, 2004.