Overview
- Jesse Hughes, 53, arrived in Paris on Tuesday to attend Thursday’s commemorations of the November 13 attacks.
- The group was performing at the Bataclan in 2015 when gunmen killed 90 people, including their merchandising manager Nick Alexander.
- After years of limited releases with no studio album since 2015, the band finished a Teragram Ballroom residency on October 30 with a largely renewed lineup and a one-night appearance by guitarist Eden Galindo.
- In 2022, band members testified at the Paris special assize court, which sentenced Salah Abdeslam to life without parole and convicted 19 co-defendants, with no appeals filed.
- Hughes drew condemnation for alleging Bataclan staff complicity in early interviews, later issued public apologies, and saw festival bookings canceled.