Fantômas reunited on the closing night time of the revived ‘Geek Present’ tour that includes Mr. Bungle, Melvins and Spotlights final week.
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Mr. Bungle’s Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn and Dave Lombaro, together with Melvins’ guitarist Buzz Osborne – all members of the supergroup which shaped in 1998 – have been acting on tour collectively this month, however took to the stage collectively to reunite Fantômas to shut out the run.
Joined alongside Mr. Bungle guitarists Trey Spruance and Scott Ian, they completed the tour in on the CA Fox Theater in Oakland, California final week (Might 24) to carry out Henry Mancini’s ‘Experiment In Terror’, which featured on their 2001 album ‘The Director’s Lower’.
Watch footage of the reunion beneath.
The final time Fantômas reunited was again in 2017 after they opened for Instruments in San Bernadino, California, however Dale Crover coated for Lombardo.
Fantômas’ most up-to-date launch was 2011’s ‘The Director’s Lower Stay: A New 12 months’s Revolution’, a stay album of their December 31, 2008, efficiency at San Francisco’s Nice American Music Corridor.
In 2020, Melvins’ Osborne additionally teamed up with Dunn of Mr. Bungle to launch their collaborative album ‘Reward of Sacrifice’.
Elsewhere, again in December 2022, Mike Patton discovered himself in a short stand-off with a drone throughout Mr. Bungle’s set at Knotfest Chile.
The band was about midway by means of their set on the Slipknot-curated competition performing a canopy of Slayer’s ‘Hell Awaits’ when a fan tried to movie a piece of the efficiency utilizing a small drone.
Patton was visibly aggravated by its presence, flipping it off and taunting it earlier than making an attempt to whack it down together with his microphone.
In 2021, Patton cancelled his Religion No Extra and Mr. Bungle tour dates, citing psychological well being causes.
He stated he was affected by pre-existing “points” that have been “exacerbated by the pandemic”.
