PARIS — Eagles of Death Metal returned to Paris on Tuesday night for a concert honoring those who were killed — and those who survived — the November attack in which 90 people were fatally gunned down during a performance by the American rock band.

‘‘Bonsoir Paris, we’re ready for this!’’ lead singer Jesse Hughes told the crowd at the Olympia concert hall before heading into their first song, the Associated Press reported.

In emotional interviews with the French news media before the concert, Hughes said the group felt an obligation to finish what it had started.

“I don’t want to let anybody down,’’ Hughes said Monday on the French television channel i-Télé. “For me, I can’t let the bad guys win.’’

Breaking into tears during a separate interview, for the channel Canal+, he said: “Paris isn’t just a show. It is not a rock show; it is a lot bigger than that. It has a much bigger purpose than just entertaining this time around.’’

The reprise performance, at the 125-year-old Olympia theater in central Paris, is a rare second chance for those at the scene of a terrorist attack to reclaim the moment: In this instance, to hear music, have a good time and be with friends, even if many of them are gone. Concert organizers have worked with a number of survivors’ groups that evolved after the series of attacks on Nov. 13, in which 130 people were killed, many at cafes near the Bataclan, the hall where Eagles of Death Metal were playing.

“For the survivors, the concert means a lot, everything possible,’’ said Arthur, a spokesman for one such group, Paris for Life. He asked to be identified only by his first name.

“I was in the pit when the shooting started, and I dropped to the floor and crawled over and around bodies until I reached an exit,’’ he said.

He acknowledged that many of the survivors were unsure whether they should attend Tuesday’s concert.

“Some people feel it’s too soon; they feel it’s too soon to go back to a concert, but most of the survivors are proud of the band,’’ he said. “The band members are survivors, too.’’

It will not be Eagles of Death Metal’s first return to Paris since the attacks. The band closed a show in Paris with U2 in early December, playing a Patti Smith song, “People Have the Power,’’ and the next day laid wreaths at the Bataclan.

Hughes, who has spoken out against gun control, was asked whether he agreed with the assertion by the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that if people in the Bataclan attack had been armed, they could have shot the attackers.

“I’m not a hero, but I love my friends,’’ Hughes told i-Télé. “And I was raised that you have to be willing to give your life, or else it is not worth living, and you are not a member of a community. I’m not a hero, but if I had had a gun I could have changed something, and I would have been willing to do it.’’

“I want to make sure everybody understands. I don’t want to shoot anybody’’ or carry around a gun, he said.

Arthur, the survivor who works with Life for Paris, said he was unsure how it would feel to walk into a concert hall again.

“How are we going to be able to dance when some people died dancing?’’ he asked. “I think it will be a weird concert tonight; we are going to think of the dead, but we will for the rest of our lives.’’