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Fantômas – The Director’s Cut Live: A New Year’s Revolution (DVD)
Tracklist:
The Godfather
Night of the Hunter
Cape Fear
Experiment in Terror
One Step Beyond
Rosemary’s Baby
The Devil Rides Out
Spider Baby
The Omen (Ave Satani)
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
Vendetta
Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Der Golem
Charade
Intermission
Simply Beautiful [Al Green]
Chariot Choogle [Marc Bolan & T Rex]
No word on pre-order info yet… I’ll post a link once it’s available on the Amazons.
Fantômas is a noise-metal supergroup: Mike Patton on voice and electronics (Faith No More/Mr Bungle/Mondo Cane/Peeping Tom/Tomahawk/Moonchild/etc), Trevor Dunn on bass (Mr Bungle/Secret Chiefs 3/many John Zorn projects), King Buzzo on guitars (the Melvins), and Dave Lombardo on drums (Slayer). The Director’s Cut is their second album of re-imagined mystery/horror/suspense movie scores… this is their front-to-back live recording of it from 12/31/2008.
~Dan – np: Sigur Rós – Takk…
Megadeth & Slayer bringing back Classic Metal
Megadeth and Slayer, who last toured the U.S. together 19 years ago on the “Clash of the Titans” extravaganza, have confirmed that they will each perform, start to finish, their 1990 releases – Megadeth’s Platinum Rust In Peace and Slayer’s world-wide, million-selling Seasons In The Abyss – on the upcoming North American Carnage Tour. …With Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, Testament will be Special Guest on all dates.
They come to Portland area’s Washington County Fairgrounds on September 4th. For more dates…GO HERE or megadeth.com (or slayer.com).
~Dan – np: Sevendust – Cold Day Memory 
Fantômas & Mondo Cane 2009
As reported by stubbadub/Rockarolla, 2009 may shape up to be a Mike Patton banner year…
Mike Patton’s avant-garde, noise-metal quartet FANTÔMAS is set to record their fifth album. Fantômas is Mike Patton on voice and electronics, Trevor Dunn (from Mr Bungle, Trio Convulsant, etc) on bass, Buzz Osbourne (from the Melvins) on guitars, and Dave Lombardo (from Slayer) on drums. In live settings, I’ve even heard that Mike’s enlisted Terry Bozzio (from Frank Zappa’s band, etc) on drums when Dave Lombardo isn’t available.
Their albums have all had themes so far: the self-titled debut (aka Amenaza al Mundo) was based on a 30 page/picture graphic novel; their second, “most-accessible” album (The Director’s Cut) was reinterpretations of horror/ suspense/ gangster movie music; their third album (Delìrivm Còrdia) was a 74-minute, one-track meandering about anesthetic-free surgery (yes, you read that correctly); and their fourth album (Suspended Animation) was 30 tracks dedicated to the month of April 2005.
The rumors are that the 5th record will be an “all electronic” record. I’m hoping that Mike will still utilize Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo despite this slant on the music. I’ve also heard rumors (years ago) that Mike also wanted to do an all-acoustic Fantômas record – – which, IMO, would pwn. Anyway, the Fantômas record is expected by June 2009. We shall see…
For a feel for what Fantômas can be all about, here’s a “cute” 52-second animated video for “Page 25” from their debut:
http://ipecac.com/archives/extras/page25.php
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In other news, Mike Patton’s Italian ’60s pop project (a la Ennio Morricone) called MONDO CANE is due out in March 2009. I posted about the Mondo Cane concert in Amsterdam (which is available as streaming video) over HERE.
~Dan – np: Goddamn Electric Bill – Topics for Gossip
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