Watch: Eagles of Death Metal, Duran Duran duet on 'Save a Prayer'

It's unlikely that many people outside of the hard rock scene had ever heard of the Eagles of Death Metal until this week. (For the uninitiated, the band's name is a bit of a misnomer.)

That all changed Friday, when the good-time band founded in 1998 by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jesse Hughes became a footnote to history.

Now they will probably always be remembered as the group that was playing at the time ISIS terrorists stormed Paris' Bataclan theater armed with Kalashnikovs the concert hall and killed more than 80 people. (Britain's Guardian and CNBC put the tally of dead concertgoers at 87.)

The band's social media accounts have not provided a definitive update on their condition. However, Facebook posts from opening act Red Lemons and the brother of EODM singer Jesse Hughes indicate the band made it out of the Bataclan safely, laying to rest rumors that he'd been hit. Ian Hughes told The Desert Sun, "Not sure where the info about Jesse being shot came from. ... I would say everyone in that theater had a close call."

Later, news emerged that Nick Alexander, the band's 36-year-old merchandising manager for their European tour, was among the dead. His family confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. He had worked on tours for the Black Keys, Panic at the Disco and Alice in Chains.

While reporting on the attacks at the Bataclan, I happened upon a video featuring EODM and Duran Duran. Recorded on Halloween for Britain's TFI Friday, the bands teamed up for Duran Duran's 1982 ballad Save a Prayer, which EODM had covered on their last album, Zipper Down. (Heads up: The stage banter contains some swearing.)

Although its lyrics are not exactly noble or uplifting — it's about a one-night stand in an exotic location — for my money, Save a Prayer is the most beautiful song Duran Duran has ever written.

After Paris, the meaning of the song's chorus — 'Don't say a prayer for me now, save it till the morning after' — changed for me, perhaps forever.

Welcome to the morning after. Civilization could use that prayer now.