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Hated by Alx Rose but loved by millions, Eagles of Death Metal bring their classic scuzz rock to www.RockvilleCA.com.

Eagles of Death Metal is Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes. Those sound like porn star names, but they’re not. The guys are just… suggestive. Hence the title of their third album: Heart On.

Homme and Hughes met way back in 1979, before they were old enough to be such wildcats. Growing up in California’s Palm Desert, the pair’s bromance began when they were six year-olds in the same soccer league. In the twenty years hence, Homme went on to fame and, later, fortune with his bands Kyuss and Queens of the Stone-Age, helping to architect an entire genre of music aptly known as “stoner rock.” Hughes, a staunch Republican and member of the National Rifle Association, took a more straight-and-narrow path, getting his degree and embarking on a career as a journalist.

When the pair decided to form a band together in 1998, they took their name from a phrase their friend used to disparagingly compare Polish metal band Vader to Seventies soft-rockers The Eagles. Get it? They released their first album in 2004, and though Homme continues to contribute equally to EoDM’s albums, he only sporadically joins the band live, as its drummer, when he’s not busy with Queens of the Stone Age.

Meanwhile, Hughes has turned into a total road dog, taking Eagles of Death Metal on tour with headliners like the Strokes, Peaches, Joan Jett and the Hives. Guns N’ Roses didn’t like them, though. In 2006, Axl fired EoDM from their support slot after they had played only one show. He called them “Pigeons of Sh** Metal.” Ouch. But, hey, they still got paid for the whole tour. Because that’s how the Eagles of Death Metal roll.