The co-founder of the California-based rock band Eagles of Death Metal, whose Paris concert was targeted in a deadly attack by militants this month, said in an interview with Vice posted on Wednesday that he came face-to-face with a gunman backstage.

Members of the band, giving their first media interview since the attack in a video on the Vice website, were on stage at the Bataclan concert hall on Nov 13, when three men with rifles and explosives burst in and attacked, killing 89 people.

It was the largest loss of life in attacks that night across the French capital that killed 130 people. Islamic State has claimed responsibility.