FANTOMAS

FANTOMAS, the band featuring former FAITH NO MORE vocalist Mike Patton, MR. BUNGLE bassist Trevor Dunn, MELVINS guitarist Buzz Osbourne and SLAYER drummer Dave Lombardo, will issue their long-awaited third album, “Delirium Cordia”, on January 27 through Ipecac Records.

Commented Dunn: “[The album features] some pretty amazingly sick and beautiful artwork (image#1, image#2). Too bad you're gonna hate the 'music'. Especially those who really liked 'Director's Cut'. This one doesn't sound so much like a band. Some have called it 'ambient' or 'background' music. I think it's one of the darkest, most anxiety-riddled, stress-out things I've ever been a part of. It reminds me of the time I took acid, listened to the 'Altered States' soundtrack and took out one of my own kidneys.”

Patton had previously described the 55-minute “Delirium Cordia” (which contains only one track) as “my version of ambient music. It's dealing with larger blocks of sound and putting them together. Mood music, I like to call it. Obviously we still get around to making a lot of jarring sounds — there's a lot of nasty stuff on there but it's not like the band is attacking you with a chainsaw. It's more seductive.”

With regards to the recording process for the album, Patton said, “I would pick out a particular section that had a certain character to it, say, a long rhythmic repetitive drum part with some whooping cough vocals over the top of that and synth drums. We'd divvy it up and chop it up, the way we usually do, into seventy or eighty little pieces. It's much more sample-based. I didn't want this to sound like a band recording.”

January 06. 2004