Eagles of Death Metal return to Paris for concert

Eagles of Death Metal made good on their vow to return to Paris on Tuesday night.

The band, whose concert at the Bataclan was a site of the Paris attacks last November, played at the city's Olympia concert hall in front of many audience members who'd been in attendance the night of the tragic shootings, who'd received free tickets to the concert courtesy of the band. 

The show at the Olympia was the band's first full concert in Paris since the attacks, which killed 130 people and injured hundreds, including the 89 people who died at the Bataclan.

The show was dedicated to the victims at the Bataclan, with the band and audience standing in silence for 89 seconds to honor their memory.

EOMD's co-founder and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme also appeared with the band for a rare performance, joining them on a second set of drums onstage.

Watch fan-shot footage of the concert here:

The set also included a jubilant cover of the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar, captured in a video posted online that shows a moving moment between frontman Jesse Hughes and the wildly-cheering crowd.

Watch the cover here:

(Warning: explicit language)

In an interview before the concert with the French tv station, iTélé, on Monday, Hughes expressed his frustrations with gun control laws. “Until nobody has guns, everybody has to have them,”Eagles of Death Metal returned to Paris in December to join U2 for a concert taped for HBO, which had previously been postponed in light of the attacks. 

“Gun control kind of doesn’t have anything to do with it," he said. "But if you want to bring it up, I’ll ask you, did your French gun control stop a single (expletive) person from dying at the Bataclan?"

He also described struggling with the traumatic aftermath of the attacks.

“When I’m awake is when I see things that are nightmares,” he said. “I thought that talking about it would make it easier. I thought expelling it from inside me would make me less like this, but it’s not.”