![]() ![]() After all, the guy’s done everything from a slick, frightening score for Netflix (the Stephen King adaptation 1922) to a muddy live duet between Melvins and Fantômas ( Millennium Monsterwork). ![]() To say that someone didn’t quite ‘get’ a Mike Patton album isn’t saying much. That’s it.’” Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier I’m involved in another project now where it’s kind of the same thing-it’s like, ‘You don’t need me. “I’m not pushing ideas on them, because guess what? They’ve got great ideas, and I don’t want to fuck it up. That’s what I’ve tried to do with these guys,” he continues. They think they own the fucking show, but they don’t, okay? That’s one thing I’ve learned over the years: All you’ve gotta do is sit back and be a part of the fucking band. I think that’s important, but let’s be honest: Singers are fucking idiots. “I still see it as, ‘I am here to help,’” explains Patton. Even though that was six years ago, Patton still doesn’t see Dead Cross as ‘his band’-partly because he wishes it was still a wild, fantasy league fusion of Slayer and The Locust, and partly because Serbian’s restless spirit looms over both of their LPs. When Dead Cross decided to scrap a savage hardcore record with Serbian as its singer, Patton stepped in to shout and scream on an entirely different session. The prickly side project started out as something he simply wanted to release on Ipecac: a head-on collision between Lombardo, guitarist Michael Crain ( Retox, Kill the Capulets), and two longtime members of The Locust (Gabe Serbian and Three One G founder Justin Pearson). Speaking of Dead Cross, their second album is the first with Patton fully in place as their singer. It was more like a fuck you reunion: ‘You think you know us? Well, you don’t.’” Dead Cross To be able to recreate it with a couple of legends, it was just like, ‘We gotta do this.’ It was also cool that it wasn’t a typical reunion. But at the time, was what we were fucking into. Bungle not actually having any hits, and continues, “It was all about, ‘How can we do this differently, and tastefully, with integrity?’ Look, we’re not a serious metal band-we’re more like Laurel and Hardy metal. “Anybody can go back and play their hits, right?” He jokes about Mr. “It was the right way to do a reunion, in my opinion,” says Patton. The result is exactly what you’d expect from five dudes in their 50s playing chaotic rippers in the key of Cro-Mags and Circle Jerks: pure joy. Bungle’s Regan-era demo The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny. Since the former happens to count former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo in its lineup, Dunn suggested a dream team rendition (complete with thrash icon Scott Ian on rhythm guitar-because why not, right?) of Mr. Here’s what happened: Bassist Trevor Dunn went to see Patton and guitarist Trey Spruance play a show with their respective bands Dead Cross and Secret Chiefs 3. ![]() Bungle dove off the deep end with their first official album in more than two decades. While many bands would rather bury their earliest recordings than revisit them, Mr. Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo Bungle record that’s actually rooted in Patton’s high school heyday… To help bring things back to that pivotal time period, we began our breakdown with a recent Mr. God.’ Doors often open when you don’t even know the doors are there…It really fucked me up in a great way.” “Another employee played it, and I was like, ‘Oh. “I remember when the first Run-DMC record came out,” says Patton. That is, until he got a job at a local record store, and went from being a jock “on the wrong side of the tracks” to the genre-jumping, avant-garde advocate he is today. One thing’s for certain, however: growing up in the small town of Eureka, California during the ‘70s and ‘80s meant he wasn’t much of a music fan at first. Patton’s just one of those people-a restless perfectionist who’d rather look at the long road ahead than marinate on or mourn the past. The Ipecac Recordings co-founder is not trying to be difficult. “It’s like, ‘Jesus, what is this? Am I in the grave already? Why such a haunting retrospective?’” Bungle and Faith No More) as well as several one-and-done stunners that sound unlike anything he’d done before. “I’ll be honest-it scares me,” he says of the wide-ranging list of releases, one that includes two very different reunions ( Mr. When Mike Patton gets on the phone to discuss his formidable discography, the singer/composer/producer asks a simple question: “Why?” ![]()
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