Attack on concert in Bataclan – Who are the “Eagles of Death Metal”? – Süddeutsche.de

Located in the concert opening the assassins fire. A crew member, and dozens of fans die.

Karin Janker , New York

Perhaps it was coincidence. Perhaps the terrorists only have therefore chosen the concert of the “Eagles of Death Metal” to the target of their attack, because it took place on the day of the international match between Germany and France. Perhaps the attack directed against but also aware of the band and their fans. After all, it is said in the letter claiming the Islamic State that the Bataclan had therefore been attacked because there “idolaters a perverse party” would have celebrated.

The “Eagles of Death Metal” is a California rock band, founded in 1998 by singer and guitarist Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme, frontman of the “Queens of the Stone Age”. The rest of the cast changes. Despite the name, is not their genre of Death Metal, but rather playing with stereotypes. Your rough-rough Garage Rock cited clichés of sex and rock and roll so convincing that one Hughes decreases both the Redneck rowdiness and the gay leather Schnauzbärtigkeit. The cover of the previously released four albums are overloaded with sex and lasciviousness, there are parodies of rock lifestyle.

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All of Hughes’ attitude is somewhat ironic. His campy appearance, his ultimate sexist image of women, his total dedication to the rock music. Yet the irony never goes so far that they would critically. The “Eagles of Death Metal” are actually not a political band, but singer Hughes stands by his sympathy for the Republicans. In October, the Second Amendment gushed in an interview from his hero George W. Bush (“My Kind Of motherfucker”) and by Donald Trump. He is serious, probably.

As an ordinary Republican Hughes also supported Israel unreservedly and boasted in the summer at a concert in Jerusalem so that he did not follow a call for a boycott against Israel’s policy of other musicians. He had never felt in his life at home, he called there in the audience.

The German concert organizer of the band, Marek Lieberberg, it holds after the attacks of Paris possible that the “Eagles of Death Metal “had become because of this sympathy target of terrorists. However, this assumption is speculative, concrete evidence, there is not yet.

You Concert in “Bataclan” as part of a European tour was sold out. More than 1,000 people were in the room when three armed individuals at 21.40 clock invaded on Friday night in the building and fired into the crowd. The police stormed the Bataclan against 00.20 clock. That night there 89 people were killed.

According to eyewitnesses, the attack occurred when the band played already. During the sixth song suddenly popped shots – louder than the music. The band members threw themselves to the ground, could bring about the back door of the stage in safety.

British crewmember among the dead

On Facebook, the group released after midnight a statement from the shock and grief talking. Later it became known that at least one crew member was killed in the terrorist attack killed: The Briton Nick Alexander, who sold merchandise at the merchandise booth, was among the victims, confirmed its family of newspaper The Independent .

The “Eagles of Death Metal” in the coming days should also play concerts in Germany, in Cologne, Munich and Bremen; by December the European tour should go. “It also belongs to the reverence that one waits now, until the band comes to us and we do not push for an action”, said on Saturday the German concert promoters Lieberberg. “The group will go home,” said an employee of the French concert organizer AFP.