Reconvening in 2003, the duo recorded three days' worth of material (almost all of the songs being taped on the very first take). When QOTSA quickly became one of the world's most talked-about hard rock bands (due to such exceptional releases as 1998's Queens of the Stone Age, 2000's R, and 2002's Songs for the Deaf), Homme sought to relaunch the Eagles of Death Metal as more than just a one-off project. But the new group was put on the back burner while Homme got Queens of the Stone Age off the ground (interestingly enough, with another high-school friend of both his and Hughes, bassist Nick Oliveri). Despite its name, the group's sound was more akin to classic garage rock, with some elements of the Rolling Stones added in for good measure. 3-4 of Homme's ongoing Desert Sessions series in 1998. The Eagles of Death Metal were formed soon after, as the group debuted with a few tracks on Vols. Homme later re-entered the picture, and convinced his old friend (who was down in the dumps at the time over a divorce) to start jamming on music, with Homme on drums and Hughes handling guitar and vocal duties. The pair bonded as teenagers while playing together on the same local soccer team, but went in separate career paths after graduation - Homme went on to form the underappreciated Kyuss, before launching Queens of the Stone Age, while Hughes attended the University of South Carolina and became a journalist. Both Hughes and Homme hail from Palm Desert, California, and have been friends since Hughes' family moved to the aforementioned arid location in 1979. The collaboration of lifelong friends Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes, Eagles of Death Metal grew from a side project into a full-fledged band with a riff-heavy, tongue-in-cheek identity of its own.
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