Death by Sexy is the second studio album by Eagles of Death Metal, released in the United States on April 11, 2006, after the band had already established its joke-that-rocks identity with Peace, Love, Death Metal. Recorded in January 2005 at Studio B in Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, the album again placed Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme at the center of the project, with Homme producing and providing much of the rhythmic backbone while Hughes carried the frontman role. Compared with the debut, Death by Sexy sounds more filled out and more deliberate, but it keeps the band's essential contradiction intact: a group with an extreme-sounding name making loose, funny, swaggering garage rock instead of death metal. The record leans into blues rock, rockabilly bounce, alternative rock hooks, and classic-rock attitude, using humor and exaggeration as part of the sound rather than as a throwaway gimmick. Its world is full of nightlife, confidence, cartoonish danger, and oversized rock-and-roll personality, but the album works because the playing is tight underneath the jokes. Homme's drumming gives the songs a simple, propulsive engine, while Hughes turns the material into a performance of charm, attitude, and mischief. Several guests from the band's wider circle appear in the documented personnel, including Joey Castillo, Dave Catching, Brian O'Connor, Troy Van Leeuwen, Brody Dalle, Mark Lanegan, Liam Lynch, Wendy Rae Fowler, and Jack Black, which helps explain why the album feels bigger and more communal than the debut without losing its deliberately scrappy character. The most historically visible songs are the ones that traveled outside the album. Don't Speak (I Came to Make a BANG!) appeared in Need for Speed: Carbon and was later used in a Guy Ritchie-directed Nike commercial, while Chase the Devil appeared in Tony Hawk's Project 8. Those placements suited the album's energy: fast, playful, physical, and instantly recognizable. Critical reaction was generally positive but not unanimous. Supportive reviews often emphasized the album's fun, focus, and ability to blur novelty and sincerity, while less enthusiastic critics felt the joke sometimes outweighed the songs. That tension is part of the album's legacy. Death by Sexy is not a serious reinvention of rock; it is a knowingly exaggerated rock record that understands the power of a simple riff, a shouted hook, and a band fully committed to its own ridiculous mythology.