Check out Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Dead Cross and Fantômas sculptured using Lego. Sérgio Batista is a talented Portuguese sculptor who has lent his skills to creating some amazingly detailed re-enactments of classic live shows from several of Mike Patton's bands. Faith No More - A scene based on Hellfest 2015 made with over 750 Lego pieces. Dead Cross - Live 2018. Fantômas - Live at Jazz Montreux 2005 with Terry Bozzio from Frank Zappa on drums. Over 1000 Lego pieces. Mr. B

During July we have been treated to Spanish lessons with Mike Patton via Revolver Magazine. You can now relearn each lesson with The Lonely Rager via the supercut version. Mike Patton is best known as the singer of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantomas and Dead Cross, but he also goes by The Lonely Rager, a quarantine alter ego introduced with a ripping lockdown performance of "Speak Spanish or Die" with members of S.O.D. In the spirit of the latter song, for one mont

When you encounter the gaggle of lunatics who make up insane San Francisco metallers Mr. Bungle, just don't mention the F-word. There's no funk here, insist Mike Patton and his cohorts -- just a lot of John Zorn-produced weirdness, not to mention masturbation. But will the spectre of Faith No More hinder the unbalanced sextet forever, wonders MIKE GITTER, or will they manage to duck the contractual hassles and be left to their own devices -- that is, whiffing their own farts?

Patton talks to UK chef and restaurateur Andrew Clarke about food and places to eat around the world, and food. We know that the FNM front man does not enjoy being in front of a camera these days and his only interviews seem to be under unique circumstances - this conversation for Sofasonic Festival was exactly that. Patton talked with enthusiasm and humour for an hour with the London based chef and both their extensive knowledge of great restaurants around the world was obvi

Over the last ten days you have been voting to crown the ultimate Mike Patton album and we have a winner. We started out with 32 albums featuring Patton including FNM, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Dead Cross, Mondo Cane and his soundtrack work. FNM dominated the polls and other heavy weights were soon history. Of course these kind of knock out competitions are unbalanced and the results are in no way a measure of the man of 1000 voices greatest recordings - it

After 20,000 votes Faith No More come out on top in the quarter final results of our Patton deathmatch. We wanted to represent the entirety of Mike Patton's musical catalogue in this debate so of course we included his records with FNM - the band has decimated the opposition and it seems sure we will have a FNM final. Disco Volante 62% VS The Director's Cut 38% This was a good battle, possibly one of the most balanced in this ridiculous competition. Just remind us - who's ide

We have had over 150,000 votes to determine which eight Mike Patton albums made the quarter finals. 32 Patton albums are now down to the final 8 as we reveal which made it through to the quarter finals. Angel Dust 65% VS King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime 35% Well there you go, the question of which FNM album is better answered after all these years. Peeping Tom 46% VS Disco Volante 54% The closest battle in this competition so far. But Mr. Bungle's avant-guarde 1995 sounds k

After the success of our Faith No More Battle of the Songs we decided to throw a Mike Patton poll. Yeah, yeah this entire exercise is inaccurate... but it's fun and we totally get a chance to use awesome fonts and logos in the design process. Plus we seemed to brought forgotten Mike Patton projects to the attention of some, and there were plenty of interesting and funny discussions in the comments. We began with 32 albums which spanned Patton's career including FNM, Mr. Bungl

The legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone has died at the ago of 91 The composer, known as 'The Maestro' died last week in Rome due to complications after a fall. Morricone, who scored more than 500 films, is widely regarded as one of cinema’s greatest composers, winning a long-overdue Oscar in 2015 for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. His work on spaghetti Westerns directed by childhood friend Sergio Leone such as For a Few Dollars More and The Good, t

Dave Lombardo, Michael Crain, Justin Pearson and Mike Patton have recorded a version of the classic Black Flag song. This is the second politically charged song featuring Patton (aka The Lonely Rager) and Lombardo recently with Mr. Bungle releasing The Exploited song Fuck The USA. Dead Cross - Rise Above (Black Flag cover) created in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and staunchly opposing police brutality and systemic racism. As such, the track opens with a rec

One of Mike Patton's most adventurous and extravagant recordings The Mondo Cane album was released on May 4th, 2010. "A period piece love letter to Italy." How the Mondo Cane album was realised is a touching story, a record almost 16 years in the making. It all started in 1994 when Patton met and married the Italian artist Cristina Titi Zuccatosta. Patton moved with her to Bologna, soon became immersed in the local Italian culture and he began to learn the language. “The gr

tētēma's follow-up album to their 2014 debut album Geocidal was released today via Ipecac Joined by violinist Erkki Veltheim and drummer WIll Guthrie in quartet formation, this record continues to employ the wayward orchestrations and arresting physicality of their 2014 debut Geocidal, yet is renewed by a melodic language which grounds it's multi-coloured twists and turns in hallucinatory lyricism. Where Geocidal was loosely based on futuristic post-colonial dystopias, its ev

Mr. Bungle have re-recorded their 1985 demo Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny and Revolver Magazine have the exclusive Yesterday the band ceased speculation by announcing they had re-recorded their very first cassette demo - recently performed live. The current Mr. Bungle line up includes Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo. Revolver have the full story which you can read in two parts. Part 1 and now Part 2. In the second part Trey Spruance continues to talk about the genesis of the s

Members of Mr. Bungle have confirmed that they have re-recorded their 1985 demo with Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo We have been speculating for the last few weeks since the live Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny shows that Mr. Bungle were in fact in the studio recording the tracks for an updated release. Now the band have given Revolver the exclusive news that they're re-recording The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, along with a selection of covers and three previously un-reco

Faith No More's fifth studio album was released twenty five years ago in March 1995. The Making Of King For a Day Fool For A Lifetime This is the story of how Faith No More's compelling and brilliant fifth album King For a Day Fool For A Lifetime was recorded. This article was written with the help of the band, referencing interviews with band members and those who were involved. To Create You Must First Destroy The friction between five diverse personalities that created the

You can now hear the third taster from Mike Patton and Anthony Pateras' upcoming collaboration album Soliloquy follows the release of Wait Till Mornin' and the first single Haunted On The Uptake. The duo's second album, Necroscape, will be released via Ipecac on April 4th. [Pre-order] #mikepatton #tetema #anthonypateras

Watch the new video for Zeus! featuring Mike Patton‘s cover of The Cramps classic Human Fly directed by Displaced / Replaced This song is the first to be released from the upcoming one hundredth Three One G release, a tribute album to The Cramps titled Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G. Three One G’s one hundredth release will be another tribute, this time to an iconic band known for its raunchy and pure punk

It’s no secret that Mike Patton likes to stay active, but with countless projects on the go could this year be the most Patton-tastic ever? In late 2019 Patton’s manager and partner in crime at Ipecac, Greg Werckman, told us the man of a thousand voices "had never been busier". So far this statement is proving to be accurate. Just yesterday Michael Crain, guitarist for Dead Cross, shared two pictures on social media of himself and Patton with the caption “Like two kids in a

Italian math rock duo Zeus! have recorded a cover of Human Fly by The Cramps featuring Mike Patton. Justin Pearson's One Three G Records will issue a tribute album to The Cramps as their one hundredth release titled Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G. The record will feature bands such as Daughters and Retox as well as Mike Patton with Zeus!. Patton will feature on a cover of the 1978 song Human Fly originally o

Shit terrorist was the phrase coined by Mike Patton himself in 1992 t describe his unsanitary behaviour, but hidden amongst the turd eating and golden showers was a more unnerving storyline... During 1992 Patton shed his weather worn pin-up frat boy skin and emerged as a scruffy thrift shop degenerate who rather unexpectedly stole our hearts. His lovable cartoon character antics were replaced by stomach churning mischief that gave us all a laugh at the expense of stereotype r