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EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's JESSE HUGHES: AXL ROSE Insult 'Made My Career'

February 13, 2009

Kerrang! caught up with Jesse Hughes in the heart of London's Soho disctrict, where the frontman discussed EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's latest album, "Heart On", ladies, his and Josh Homme's belief that "the music is the king," rollerblading, and how Axl Rose's comment that they were "Pigeons of Shit Metal" inspired him to get a tattoo celebrating the quote and was "the most wonderful insult that anyone could ever ask for. That insult, in and of itself made my career," he said. As for GUNS N' ROSES' new album, "Chinese Democracy', Hughes said it was "fucking mediocre. Quite frankly, for the amount of time and amazing waste of money and the sort of state of the industry that he put us in, because those sorts of extravagances and those sorts of outrages really represented the artist as just a child to the world, and it's left us the way we are. For 16 years, or whatever it took, I was expecting to get a blowjob, and like a Chinese woman to marry, like a mailorder bride, but it didn't work out that way." Hughes also wants to team up with the GUNS N' ROSES singer to record a "Pigeons of Shit Metal" single. Watch the interview below.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's third album, "Heart On", was released on October 28 through Downtown Music. The CD includes guest appearances from QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE mainman Josh Homme's wife and DISTILLERS frontwoman Brody Dalle, and Kat Von D, the tattoo artist on the "L.A. Ink" television series and Nikki Sixx's girlfriend.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's "Peace, Love, Death Metal" debut came out in 2004 and was followed by 2006's "Death By Sexy". Homme, who records with EAGLES, is not part of the band's touring lineup, which includes frontman Jesse Hughes alongside guitarist Dave Catching, bassist/singer Brian O'Connor and drummer Joey Castillo.

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