
These poignant photographs show jubilant fans at the Eagles Of Death Metal gig moments before they were massacred by ISIS gunmen in Paris.

The pictures are clear enough to pick out individual faces in the crowd, some of whom were among the 89 victims slaughtered at the Bataclan Concert Hall on Friday night.

Some fans can been seen making the horn hand gesture that is popular within the heavy metal culture. Others are smiling for camera, raising their glasses or simply enjoying the music.

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Jubilant fans are seen smiling and waving at the Eagles Of Death Metal concert moments before 89 of them were massacred by ISIS gunmen

The pictures are understood to have been taken just a few minutes before three gunmen burst into the venue at 9.40pm (8.40pm GMT) as the Californian rock band were launching into one of their favourites, Kiss The Devil

While all members of the band escaped the massacre, their merchandise manager Nick Alexander was one of the first Britons to have been confirmed dead in the attacks

Eagles of Death Metal fans have launched a campaign to get the band to Number One in a show of solidarity in the wake of the attack

Minutes later, at 9.40pm (8.40pm GMT), three gunmen burst into the venue as the Californian rock band were launching into one of their favourites called Kiss The Devil.

Despite the men brandishing semi-automatic weapons and bristling with magazines of ammunition, some thought they were part of the spectacle.

But it quickly became a scene of horror as the militants mercilessly gunned down their victims one by one, even targeting people in wheelchairs.

Those fortunate enough to escape the massacre later described scenes of chaos as Kalashnikov-wielding gunmen told people trying to flee: 'If you move, we'll kill you'.

The jihadists paused briefly to move up to the balcony, where they reloaded and opened fire at concert-goers in the pit downstairs.

Shocking pictures later emerged showing bodies littered across the floor where those happy fans had once stood.

New pictures emerged on Tuesday showing the Eagles Of Death Metal playing at the Bataclan shortly before the massacre

More than 6,200 fans have backed the Facebook campaign, which hopes to take the band's cover of Duran Duran's Save a Prayer to top spot

Shocking pictures emerged after the massacre showing bodies littered across the floor where those happy fans had once stood

While all members of the band escaped the massacre, their merchandise manager Nick Alexander was one of the first Britons to have been confirmed dead in the attacks.

Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney yesterday paid tribute to Nick, who also worked for his band.

'I spent a lot of time with Nick, but the thing about the touring merch job, it's one of the more thankless jobs. You do it because you just want to travel and you're interested in meeting new people and it's really hard work.

'It's not the job you take if you're into partying. He was just a sweetheart, that guy.'

France and other countries in Europe today observed a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the worst-ever terror attacks on French soil, with a large crowd gathering by the Bataclan.

Moments before the attack: The massacre happened as the Californian band were launching into one of their favourites, Kiss The Devil

Fated concert: Eagles of Death Metal playing onstage at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, just moments before ISIS gunmen burst into the venue

Moment of horror: The Eagles of Death Metal drummer dives for cover behind his drum kit as terrorists burst into the venue and begin shooting

In Paris, President Francois Hollande and his cabinet, all dressed in black, bowed their heads at the Sorbonne University, surrounded by scores of students.

And at Place de la Republique near the site of many of Friday's attacks, hundreds more stood still to remember the 132 people who were killed in the bloodbath.

This morning French police identified one of the Bataclan bombers as homegrown terrorist Samy Amimour, 28, who was known to anti-terror officers in 2012 when he was prosecuted for trying to flee France to join Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen.

A year later he slipped out of France to join ISIS in Syria.

French police have said another homegrown terrorist, Omar Ismaël Mostefai , 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris, was also one of the Bataclan suicide bombers.

Meanwhile, Paris terrorist fugitive Salah Abdeslam - dubbed the world's most wanted man - appears to have escaped police for a second time in three days.

A woman is evacuated from the scene of the massacre, where witnesses said gunmen threatened to kill anyone who moved

A member of the French special forces evacuates people, including one man with an injury to his head, from near the Bataclan theatre on Friday night following the shootings

Belgian special forces stormed a Brussels apartment in a district known as the 'jihadi capital of Europe' believing the 26-year-old was hiding inside.

In a scene similar to the famous Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980, soldiers clambered across the roof and were seen firing tear gas through a Velux-style window to flush out a suspect who witnesses claimed came out on to a balcony with his arms up.

A hooded man was handcuffed and put in a car by plain-clothes police but the Mayor of Molenbeek has insisted that there were no arrests and the wanted man is still on the run.

Abdeslam is one of three 'blood brothers' believed to be at the heart of French massacres where 132 people died on Friday and incredibly he was stopped and then released by French police guarding the Belgian border hours after the attacks.

It appears the terror suspect, believed to be a getaway driver and potential shooter, may be hiding in Molenbeek, where the eight-strong ISIS terror cell may have met before the Paris raids to gather automatic weapons and suicide vests.

It came as police in Turin appealed for witnesses who may have seen a black Seat drive into Italy from France at Ventimiglia near Nice on Saturday because they believe it may be linked to the Paris attacks.

Tribute: Nick Alexander’s girlfriend Polina Buckley posted this heartbreaking message (left) after she learned of his death at the Bataclan

The car had a number plate containing GUT 18053 and it may have had three potential suspects inside the car, including a 32-year-old believed to be a gunman.

French police also carried more than 168 raids the country, seizing a rocket launcher, a huge cache of weapons and arresting 23 suspects.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 104 people have also been placed under house arrest.

He said: 'It's just a start, these operations are going to continue, the response of the Republic will be huge, will be total. The one who targets the Republic, the Republic will catch him, will be implacable.'

The raids come just hours after French fighter jets carried out a series of 'massive' air strikes on Raqqa, destroying a key ISIS command centre and a training camp in Syria.

Victims: Former LSE student Valentin Ribet, left, Mathieu Hoche, centre, and Marie Lausch, right, all died in the attacks

Dead: Marie Mosser, left, Francois-Xavier Prevost, centre, and Lola Salines, right, were named as three of the victims of the attacks in Paris

Elodie Breuil (left), 23, Thomas Ayad (centre), 32, and Guillaume B. Decherf, 43, (right) - all from France - were among the many victims

Djamila Houd, 41, from Paris (left) and Elsa DelPlace San Martin (centre), also from France, were also among those killed. Caroline Prenat, (right) 24, was also killed on a night out with friends

Meanwhile, Eagles of Death Metal fans have launched a campaign to get the band to Number One in a show of solidarity in the wake of the attack which killed 132 people and left hundreds more injured.

More than 6,200 people have backed the Facebook campaign, which hopes to take the Californian band's cover of Duran Duran's Save a Prayer to the top spot.

In less than 24 hours, the song has already reached Number One on the iTunes UK rock chart.

Fans insist the campaign is 'a respectful united demonstration of support for the band and those affected by the horrific ordeal in Paris this week'.

Flushed out: Special forces climbed across a roof before they fired tear gas (pictured) through a Velux-type window to flush out a suspect who came out on to a balcony with his arms up. Belgian media claimed this man was Salah Abdeslam

Operations: Witnesses said they also heard explosions and sounds like gunfire during the operation to surround the top floor flat in Brussels today. One soldier, left, appeared to be in charge and after the gas was fired in troops used a thermal camera to watch the results

Wanted man: Salah Abdeslam, 26, may have been arrested during an arrest on a Belgian safehouse this morning and is one of three brothers believed to be at the very centre of the Paris terror attacks

Suspect: Belgian Bilal Hadfi, 20, left, detonated his suicide vest at the Stade de France, French bomber Omar Mostefai, centre, killed himself at the Bataclan and Samy Amimour, 28, was also involved in the gig attack

Wanted man: Serbian media says this is 25-year-old Ahmed Almuhamed, left and right, whose Syrian passport is pictured, who blew himself up at the Stade de France in Paris, and is believed to have sneaked into France with another terrorist by posing as refugees from Syria

PARIS ATTACKS: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE MASSACRE SUSPECTS DEAD ATTACKERS: Ismail Omar Mostefai, 29, a Frenchman of Algerian descent was involved in Bataclan concert hall attack. He was a known terror suspect in in 2010 and arrived in Turkey heading for Syria in 2013 and vanished. Samy Amimour, 28, was involved in Bataclan attack. French, from Drancy, Saint Denis, north of Paris. Subject of international arrest warrant since late 2013. Had been under official investigation since October 2012 on suspicion of terrorism-related activity over a plan to go to Yemen. Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, brother of wanted man Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect still at large. French, resident of Belgium. Blew himself up at Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris. Bilal Hadfi, 20, was involved in Stade de France attack. Belgian national who previously fought in Syria with ISIS. Ahmad Almohammad, 25, is a suicide bomber involved in Stade de France attack. Passport found beside dead body of kamikaze bomber carries his name. Believed to have entered Europe posing as a migrant. KEY SUSPECTS AT LARGE: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, Belgian, suspected brains behind the attacks, apparently in Syria. Abaaoud is from yje Molenbeek district of Brussels and encouraged a 13-year-old boy who left Belgium to become a fighter in Syria. Salah Abdeslam, 26, French, born in Brussels. Suspected of having rented black VW Polo car used in attacks in Paris. Could also be a shooter ARRESTED: Mohammad Abdeslam: brother of Salah and Brahim, arrested in Belgium. Now released. Advertisement

They added that the campaign is to 'show solidarity against terrorism and support for peace'.

But the campaign has been condemned as 'disgusting' and 'in very poor taste' in light of the tragedy which left 132 people dead.

'Very poor taste to use such a tragedy to propel sales and drive for a chart topping status,' one fan wrote.

Another added: 'People died. Promoting music 'in the name of solidarity' is sick. Thriving off this is disgusting, raising funds to go towards those who were affected would be more appropriate.'

Eagles of Death Metal had just finished playing Save a Prayer during their concert at the Bataclan Theatre on Friday night when terrorists wielding semi-automatic weapons burst into the venue.