This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
You won’t find any Eagles here — or any death metal, for that matter. Just the latest ironically named band featuring Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age and someone named Jesse Hughes. And a debut — Peace Love Death Metal — that packs all the chunky power-chord riffs and robo-rock rhythms familiar to fans of Feel Good Hit of the Summer.
Here’s something you might not have expected, though — Homme didn’t write these tunes and only plays drums in these Eagles. The guitar, vocal and songwriting chores are handled by his childhood pal Hughes, who boasts the guitar chops of Randy Bachman, the blues-punk irreverence of Jon Spencer and the falsetto-laced vocals of Bob (The Bear) Hite. Which makes these 15 fuzzy blues-rock cuts sound less like something called Eagles of Death Metal and more like the Bachman-Turner Overdrive Explosion of Canned Heat. And yes, I do mean that as a compliment.
