Which is really Jesse Hughes, the leader of Eagles of Death Metal? – Point

“Rockeur not so cool,” joked Wednesday’s website Télérama . According to the weekly, November 20, 2015, the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival decided to cancel screenings of The Redemptions of the devil , documentary about the leader of Eagles of Death Metal, the group American rock who played on stage at the Bataclan in the terrorist attack of 13 November. The BBC reported that the cancellation of the projection refers simply “inappropriate timing”.

In the trailer for the film, Jesse Hughes, an active member of the NRA (National Rifle Association), a lobby pro -armes fire in the United States, is one of his friends with a gun, with a laugh. It is true that the scene is not happier at a time when the group launched the song I Love You All The Time for the victims of the tragedy. Télérama also remember that besides being favorable to bear arms, said Jesse Hughes is also an “ultra-conservative Catholic and anti-abortion fervent support of Donald Trump, bashful admirer of Ronald Reagan and George Bush sees a Heroes and follower of creationism. ” Far, far away from the supposed “generation Bataclan”.

Smoking cannabis compulsive

“Hughes is a devil in redemption,” warns the documentary which returns to the course this strange parishioner. Obese and completely lost in the early 2000s, one day he surprised his wife in bed with his best friend. This is the descent into hell. The speed makes him lose all his kilos. It was at this time that Jesse Boots Electric is the name given to it by Josh Homme, his childhood friend. In 2004, their group, Eagle of Death Metal, was born. In four albums, the former obese ill at ease becomes a rock star.

Alex Hoffman documentary, available since October 2 on iTunes, follows the leader for a year of time Registration of Zipper Down , the last album. We learn as well that this compulsive smoking cannabis, married to an ex-porn star, spends his time talking about sex. Which would have the gift of fairly upset his mother. The rocker has even thought of a time getting elected to the House of Representatives, and then win the White House.