Experimental rock band Mr. Bungle have announced that they will be reuniting for their first shows in almost two decades. The band, who consist of Faith No More frontman Mike Patton, Trey Spruance, and Trevor Dunn are set to play Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on February 7th, the Warfield in San Francisco on February 8th, and Brooklyn Steel in New York on February 10th.
The band are set to perform their 1986 demo record, The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny, in full.
Mr. Bungle has enlisted the help of some very special friends to help celebrate the momentous occasion. Joining the band’s lineup will be Scott Ian of Anthrax on guitar, and Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies on drums. It truly is a meeting of the rocks greatest minds.
Mr. Bungle formed in 1985, when Patton, Spruance and Dunn were in High School. They released a slew of demo tapes and three studio albums. In 2004, the band announced a permanent hiatus.
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“Ever since Trevor hatched The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny v.2 idea a few years back, Patton, Lombardo, he and I had each been incubating some idea of that egg. Lombardo called me one day and asked me to make some guitar demos so he could learn the songs,” shared Trey Spruance of the reunion experience. “He had this generous idea to surprise the other guys with being totally ready to go with the tunes. It just so happened that I was in Eureka at the time. So, I found myself re-visiting all of those riffs in the same goddamned town and in the same goddamned house where I recorded all the original guitars on that demo 33 years earlier. There was something about actually physically working out the mania of those riffs again at DAVE LOMBARDO’S request, in that environment — it just split my head open. It wasn’t long before the train of destiny had picked up too much speed for any of us to jump off.”
“I remember writing riffs for this cassette in my parent’s garage, with no heat, so I recorded in a sleeping bag for analog warmth, playing a one-stringed acoustic guitar that was piped into a ghetto blaster,” Mike Patton mused on The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny. “Thank god I had Trevor and Trey to help decipher my rotten riffs into something intelligible!”
Tickets for the event go on sale August 16th, theyre de
