The bands account is harrowing but necessary.
The band's account is harrowing but necessary.

This is some heavy material, but you should really take 26 minutes and watch it. The way the band members describe the events is powerful and necessary. Among the many stirring moments, these lines, spoken by a visibly emotional Jesse Hughes, are probably the most rousing:

“I don’t want to spend my life trying to appease or not appease assholes. I want to spend my life smiling with my friends and entertaining them. I cannot wait to get back to Paris. I cannot wait to play. I want to come back. I want to be the first band to play in the Bataclan when it opens back up… Our friends went there to see rock and roll and died. I’m gonna go back there and live.”

These were human beings playing rock music. These were human beings watching and listening to a rock band. This could happen anywhere.

Religion is toxic.

I can't imagine a scenario in which someone who wants or needs a trigger warning would be interested in a video of this kind, but take note that there is audience footage of the band playing when the gunfire begins.