On Tuesday, the Eagles of Death Metal finally returned to the Bataclan Theater in Paris, playing a sold out concert that included many of the survivors of their last performance there, in November 2015. What a ballsy move. Last November, of course, the EODM and their fans all became—suddenly, and horrifically—human targets of a brutal terrorist assault inside the Bataclan. Three jihadists armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles stormed the doors of the theater and proceeded to systematically execute people in the crowd.
That night still sits like an unshruggable weight on Jesse Hughes, the Eagles of Death Metal’s irrepressible lead singer. He keeps replaying the episode, over and over, in his head. “There’s a certain thing that’s unmistakable about impending doom, when death is on you,” Hughes recalls in a recent interview with the music site Kerrang!.
For Matt Kibbe, Bataclan was a tipping point, the moment he decided to get a gun. With the subsequent terrorist attack in San Bernardino, arming himself and his family felt more like an obligation, not just a right, he explains.
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