From EW:
Nearly one year after the terrorist attack in Paris that claimed 89 lives at an Eagles of Death Metal concert, the band announced that a documentary titled Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) will air exclusively on HBO in February.
The film will track the band’s experiences both before and after the fateful Nov. 13, 2015, set, while taking a close look at the relationship between singer Jesse Hughes and his co-founder, drummer Josh Homme, who have been friends since childhood.
Colin Hanks, who has been friends with the band since the filming of 2015’s All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records, is set to direct. Hanks’ goal for the film was to “document the band and their fans to try and make something positive from something truly unfathomable,” HBO said in a statement.
The film will begin with the 2015 attack, and also include the band’s emotional return to Paris on Feb. 16, 2016, as they attempt to heal.
U2’s Bono and The Edge, who invited Eagles of Death Metal to return to Paris and perform with them shortly after the attack, will also appear.
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Maybe they could get permission from the composer to do a version of Roy Harper's "The Black Cloud of Islam". The only thing they might want to alter is the third line from the end, to remove the moral equivalencing of 'jehovas blind witlessnesses" – because the allah of Islam has nothing whatsoever in common with the Biblical YHWH.
Something they might also consider is to take a few of Chesterton's poems – notably "The Crusader Returns from Captivity", "The Battle of Lepanto", and "Who Goes Home?" (the last being from his 1915 novel "the Flying Inn", about an Islamised England, and how it was liberated), and … set them to music. Or take his rousing hymn "O God of earth and altar" and do a new setting for *that*. People, right now, need something to put iron in the soul. Alternatively they could read up about some of the key western infidel victories against Islam – Poitiers/ Tours, Malta, Vienna – and write new songs inspired by these.
Imagine a 'death metal' band belting out a modern ballad in honour of Charles Martel 'the hammer' and his mighty men in the field at Poitiers/ Tours, pushing back the Jihad, establishing the boundary that would stand for centuries.