Artist: Mr. Bungle

A couple of years ago, Mike Patton provided the brilliant score for Crank 2: High Voltage, a film which, as you all know, went on to win 57 Oscars and break every box office record there is. Now he's announced a new gig as a composer, for the film The Place Beyond the Pines, which [...]

Our pals over at Metal Injection recently unearthed the below video of Fantomas playing a medley of old Slayer tunes, and, yeah, it's pretty great. Despite the presence of Slayer drummer Dave Lomabardo, Fantomas put their own unique spin on the material, rather than just doing rote copies of the originals. Killer stuff... check it [...]

Christmas/Chanukah/Solstice songs abound. And so many good folks are making excellent seasonal mixtapes. I really can't compete. And besides, I'm in a period of deep concentration with my own stuff. So, before I split for the year, here's a crazy one that's (in)appropriate for any season. A warning – don't be in mid-coffee sip at 1:18. And do listen all the way through; you want to earn those presents. I'll fixing to have another year-end roundup mix around New Years. New posts will recommence on Jan 2. Happy happiness! [...]

• Mr. Bungle - Merry Go Bye Bye

As previously announced, Faith No More performed their album King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime in its entirety at a show in Santiago, Chile this past weekend. King/Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance and post-King guitarist Jon Hudson were both in attendance, and the show included, according to The PRP, "what is thought to be the [...]

In the absence of new Faith No More (which seemed like it might actually be a thing for a minute earlier this week), Tomahawk has always been my favorite (read: most FNM-like) of Mike Patton's myriad side projects. If I'm being honest, the Patton-led collabo - which also includes Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, ex-Helmet [...]

When Ben Weinman revealed in September that he was collaborating on a new project with Mike Patton, I proclaimed my love for Irony is a Dead Scene, the EP that Dillinger recorded with Patton while they were in-between former vocalist Dimitri Minakakis and current vocalist Greg Puciato. So you can imagine how jealous I am of San [...]

In my first list, I discuss my favorite clean and harsh metal vocalists.

Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, or maybe I'm just an evil liberal participating in The War on Christmas, but few things annoy me more than holiday songs. They pretty much universally suck. Except for Dean Martin's "Let it Snow." I like that one. But that may just be because it was used at the end [...]

It's never a safe bet to count out Mike Patton and the rest of Faith No More . Just when we thought they were out , the rabid and always-loving Chilean fans bring them back in. On November 12th, the funky alt-metal pioneers will be returning to Santiago, Chile at the Maquinaria Festival for a very special set. On the first day of festivities, the band will be performing their seminal 1995 release, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, in its entirety complete with former member Trey Spruance. Way back when, the [...]

I'm not saying that MetalSucks' boner-bursting August series 31 Days Of Faith No More featuring Anso DF set in motion events leading to an amazing first-ever Faith No More show with one-time FNM studio guitarist Trey Spruance this November, but um okay I don't know how to end that sentence. Cuz that's exactly what I'm [...]

I guess Ben Weinman likes to keep busy. He The Dillinger Escape Plan's guitairst, primary songwriter, and manager, and he's got this new supergroup with Mastodon's Brent Hinds, The Mars Volta's Thomas Pridgen, and former Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery brewing, and now, according to the above video interview, he's also working on something with [...]

Spurred by a lazy crossword clue in The Onion (36 down, four letters: "Faith No More's only hit"), MetalSucks contribu tor Anso DF dedicates every single day in August to celebration and exploration of the San Francisco alt-metal greats. Here we prove that history's greatest band landed more than one commercial hit (crossword answer: "Epic" natch), we revel in FNM's [...]

Spurred by a lazy crossword clue in The Onion (36 down, four letters: "Faith No More's only hit"), MetalSucks contribu tor Anso DF dedicates every single day in August to celebration and exploration of the San Francisco alt-metal greats. Here we prove that history's greatest band landed more than one commercial hit (crossword answer: "Epic" natch), we revel in FNM's [...]

Spurred by a lazy crossword clue in The Onion (36 down, four letters: "Faith No More's only hit"), MetalSucks contribu tor Anso DF dedicates every single day in August to celebration and exploration of the San Francisco alt-metal greats. Here we prove that history's greatest band landed more than one commercial hit (crossword answer: "Epic" natch), we revel in FNM's [...]

Spurred by a lazy crossword clue in The Onion (36 down, four letters: "Faith No More's only hit"), MetalSucks contributo r Anso DF dedicates every single day in August to celebration and exploration of the San Francisco alt-metal greats. Here we prove that history's greatest band landed more than one commercial hit (crossword answer: "Epic" natch), we revel in FNM's [...]

Spurred by an lazy crossword clue in The Onion (36 down, four letters: "Faith No More's only hit"), MetalSucks contributo r Anso DF dedicates every single day in August to celebration and exploration of the San Francisco alt-metal greats. Here we prove that history's greatest band landed more than one commercial hit (crossword answer: "Epic" natch), we revel in FNM's [...]

Secret Chiefs 3 are taking their unique brand of alchemical fusion on the road this fall. The experimental rock icons, fronted by composer/guitarist Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle fame, will kick off their latest North American tour in Ontario, Canada on August 31st. From, the band will slowly make their way down the Eastern Seaboard, hitting a range of intimate venues before wrapping up in Lexington, KY on September 24th. The majority of the dates planned feature Russian composer/DJ FAT32, who is also touring with the band during their many European dates this summer. If [...]

La situación en Japón es incierta y dramática, y mientras algunos ponen su grano de arena con páginas de donaciones y convocatorias de ayuda para los damnificados, algunos artistas famosos también se suman a la lista y ponen manos a la obra. Tal es el caso de Yoko Ono , quien no se quedó con la manos cruzadas y anunció que participará el próximo 27 de marzo en el Japan Benefit Concert en el que contará con la "pequeña ayuda de sus amigos": el trío Mephista (Susie Ibarra, Sylvie Courvoisier y Ikue Mori), el guitarrista Marc Ribot, [...]

Happy Fucking Valentines Day. Meh. Mr Bungle - Love is a Fist Download audio file (Love-is-a-Fist-by-Mr-Bungle-. mp3)

• Mr Bungle - Love is a Fist

Sporadic bursts of circus-themed noise. The sludgy guitar grind of heavy metal. Unpredictable blasts of horn instruments. There's no denying the influence of Mr. Bungle in every note of Umlaut's self-titled album, and how can comparisons not be drawn when the band is the musical venture of Mr. Bungle 's saxophonist Clinton "Bär" McKinnon. But though it's easy to see where McKinnon is drawing from, the Australian-based Umlaut is a wholly original project that takes a proven, experimental concept and makes it all its own. Umlaut has been called "a rock band without the rock", and that [...]