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I think the lyrics are meant to be a parody of metal music or probably more precisely - a parody of what some uptight and ultra religious folks probably think rock and especially metal music is all about. The band and the band members are not Satanists and the lyrics of the song are not meant to be an endorsement of the Devil. They are not truly a "metal" band but incorporate many musical styles including blues and bluegrass and pop rock and "easy listening rock", i.e. The Eagles, but with a "metal" edge but also at the same time being very satirical. Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea but with an amazing line up of some great rock musicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_of_Death_Metal

The band outside of founding members - Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age) who grew up together are good friends; the band has a revolving line up of musicians including Jack Black and Dave Grohl and I think on occasion Jack White and many other well known studio musicians.

At age 7, Hughes' mother, Jo Ellen, moved him to Palm Desert, California. In high school, he became friends with Josh Homme (later of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age). They became good friends after Homme stopped a bully from picking on Hughes. Hughes graduated from the Greenville Technical College with a degree in journalism and worked as the manager of a video depot in Palm Desert for several years.

In a 2007 interview, bandmate Josh Homme stated "Jesse Hughes and I have a theory; we're socially liberal but government conservative guys".[1] Hughes has also said "I wanted to be a Republican politician, for God sakes. I'm a conservative, dude".[2]

Hughes and Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal in 1998. Hughes credits Homme with saving his life, claiming that during the recording of the second Eagles of Death Metal album Death By Sexy, he fell into serious drug addiction and that Homme not only drove him to rehabilitation, but paid for it as well.[3]

Homme is from what I understand a great guy and that he helped his best friend through such a difficult time and not only insisted on and drove his friend Hughes to rehab but then also paid for it, I think says a lot about his character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Hughes_(musician)

FWIW, just the other day I was watching a "Behind The Music" show on Pat Benatar. She and her husband Neil Giraldo were talking about the song they, along with another band mate wrote and recorded for Crimes of Passion album - "Hell Is For Children" and how some religious groups at the time objected to the song as they thought it was a call for children to become Satanists and devote their lives to Satan based for what it seemed, only on the title of the song - "Hell Is For Children".

But the reason they wrote the song was to make a statement against child abuse after reading an article about several children who had been locked in a closet for years and suffered terrible from physical, sexual abuse and horrible neglect and other articles at the time about child abuse. Neil Giraldo said he was dumbfounded how anyone could listen to or read the lyrics to the song they wrote and come out thinking that they thought that Hell was a good place for children or that it was an endorsement for children to join Satanism. It was actually quite the opposite.

Pat Benatar - Hell Is for Children - Live 2001

I think the lyrics speak for themselves.

“Kiss The Devil”

Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
Who will love the devil and his song?...
I’ll love the devil!...
I’ll sing his song!...
I will love the devil and his song!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll kiss his tongue?...
Who will kiss the devil on his tongue?...
I’ll love the devil!...
I’ll kiss his tongue!...
I will kiss the devil on his tongue!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
I will love the devil and his song!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll kiss his tongue?...
I will kiss the devil on his tongue!...
Who’ll love the devil?...
Who’ll sing his song?...
I WILL LOVE THE DEVIL AND SING HIS SONG!...

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How silly of us, we should have known they were really singing about JESUS.

Oh, I remember the Benatar idiocy very well.

These guys seem to be of the same ilk as Spinal Tap.

Or this bit of silliness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADj7TISP-YI&list=PLwTwT9UPfBAsLr3mmCwkXWuM_vcIwaZWH

Anyone else old enough to remember the madness surrounding Tull’s Aqualung album?

That one ended up in *lots* of “album burnings”.

And for nothing.

Ian was defending God against those who take His name in vain.

But why bother reading the lyrics when a song title will do?

Not to mention “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell”.

That album was pretty much a sermon but few noticed.

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