Heart On is the third studio album by Eagles of Death Metal, released on October 28, 2008 through Downtown Recordings. By this point, the project built around Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme had moved beyond the surprise of its misleading name. The band still did not sound like death metal, but the joke had become a fully formed style: garage rock, bluesy hard rock, boogie, glam touches, and desert-scene swagger, all shaped into short, direct songs with a knowingly playful attitude. Josh Homme produced the album, and the record continued the core Eagles of Death Metal dynamic: Hughes as the front-facing personality and Homme as the tight rhythmic engine behind the chaos. Compared with Peace, Love, Death Metal and Death by Sexy, Heart On is often described as a more polished and more varied version of the same idea. The riffs are still simple and physical, but the album gives more space to melody, mood, and pop craft. Anything 'Cept the Truth and Wannabe in L.A. open the record with the band's usual confidence and motion, while songs such as Now I'm a Fool and How Can a Man with So Many Friends Feel So All Alone show a slightly more reflective side. That emotional shift matters because it proves the album is not only a collection of rock jokes. The humor is still there, but the record also lets loneliness, regret, and late-night emptiness slip into the party. Critics at the time noticed this balance. Some reviews framed Heart On as another dose of the band's familiar fun-loving rock, while others pointed out that Hughes and Homme were sharpening their songwriting and finding more shades inside their formula. AllMusic highlighted the album's mix of boogie rock, disco, glam rock, and strutting riffs, while Pitchfork emphasized the way the record added more mature pop songwriting without losing the band's taste for puns, swagger, and classic-rock references. The most visible single was Wannabe in L.A., whose Liam Lynch-directed video helped underline the album's connection to Los Angeles image-making, self-mythology, and playful performance. Heart On remains a key Eagles of Death Metal album because it captures the band at the moment when their sound became both slicker and stranger. It keeps the loose, funny, riff-driven energy of the first two albums, but it also shows that beneath the oversized persona there was a real songwriting partnership capable of turning a party-rock act into something with more personality and staying power.