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So this thing is out, you guys got it yet? Reviews? Will be picking this up tomorrow…. meanwhile, here are the trailers:

There’s never enough Fantomas news for my liking. But finally we have some! That DVD Patton mentioned a while back has a release date.

Titled The Director’s Cut Live: A New Year’s Revolution, it is due out September 6 on Ipecac and will feature Dale Crover manning the sticks.

Hopefully this is only the first of many more Fantomas news posts. (one can dream).

According to Mike/Ipecac on FB: “In the process, coming soon!”

America’s Funny man and archenemy of Britney, Beiber and generic corporate twitter accounts, Neil Hamburger tweeted recently that he has “Wrapped up filming for an upcoming Fantomas project”.

Not sure what this would be, some form of film clip? If so, does this indicate there is completed Fantomas material? Who knows, but apparently there is #nofurtherinformationforthcoming.

Let the speculation begin!

Update: The speculation has begun. Is this for a Fantomas movie?

Update 2: No! Neil confirmed it’s something for the Fantômas New Year’s show DVD that’s currently work in progress (as mentioned by Greg Werckman in the recent American Noise interview).

Lusty is back at it again providing us ravenous fans with the latest news. This time it’s over at American Noise in the form of a lengthy chat she had with Greg Werckman, Mr Patton‘s partner and Ipecac Recordings frontman.

Among other things, Greg talks about the the state of the music industry, life in the digital age of music (from a small label’s perspective), upcoming Ipecac releases and some news on Mike Patton projects.

On digital music:

“digital is getting really close to matching CD sales. The bands that tour sell a lot of CDs. It’s really kind of funny because a lot of people say ‘Oh the CD is dead,’ but it’s not. When our bands play live, they sell a lot of CDs at the shows.”

On social media:

“I remember Shawn (Vezinaw), who runs our Los Angeles office saying, “I need Mike to take pictures when he’s on the road with his phone, they don’t need to be good, just anything so I can put them on Facebook.” And Mike and I both thought that was kind of goofy. But Mike started doing it. He’d take a picture of a meal he had and Sean would put it up there and there would be hundreds of responses to it. It’s seems odd but you got to do it.”

On The Melvins:

“I still think, as popular as The Melvins are, that they are just ridiculously overlooked. I don’t think there’s a better hard rock band going and that includes the huge bands that play arenas like Metallica or whatever. The Melvins are rock and roll.”

On Mike Patton’s current projects:

“He did the score for the Italian filmThe Solitude of Prime Numbers so we’re going to be putting out that soundtrack. A couple of shows he’s done over the years we’ve taped: there’s a Fantômas New Year’s show that we’re working on that’s going to be this really cool, really funny live DVD that we’ll be putting out.

He’s in the early stages of working on some new Tomahawk music and some new Fantômas music, more Mondo Cane—he’s literally working on six or seven records right now. He’s also got this project (that we’re not putting out) called Nevermen, that’s coming out on Lex Records. It’s with Tunde from TV on the Radio and Dose One from the Anticon world. It’s just going to be three vocalists. It’s just a weird, kind of cool record. He’s also signed up to reprise his role in the Darkness II video game.”

Check out the full interview at American Noise

So lots of goss is making the rounds after the recent Faith No More shows in L.A. Mindbait has some insight in to the state of Fantomas as heard from ‘the Gerg’ Werkman and also rock photographer slash CoS writer @wanderlustingkh recently tweeted some interesting titbits as heard backstage from Mr Dave Lombardo:

“Fantomas isn’t tracked. Lovage is. Dave still has to do drums. Dave said the ‘electronic’ part of the next album is that he’ll play and Patton will dub over with an electronic drum kit… he said Patton’s working on the theme, I think a lot has been recorded from the other dudes… And there you have it folks – that’s your Fantomas scoop straight from the mouth of the world’s best drummer Dave Lombardo.”

Anyone else heard any new news?

Nice big article on Mike over at alarmpress with a few updates on his current and future plans:

“Between the second Mondo Cane installment and another tour, Patton isn’t done exploring. His restless nature won’t allow for that. And like usual, he and Ipecac partner Greg Werckman have a full schedule of upcoming releases, including a soundtrack by Daniele Luppi and a new album by experimental-rock studio project The Books of Knots.

And after the possibility of even more tour dates from the reunited Faith No More, Patton’s commitments, to be finished in no particular order, include a film score for the adaptation of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, an electronic Fantômas album, another Tomahawk release, the Crudo collaboration with Dan the Automator, and another Moonchild disc with the Zorn crew.“

There have been a couple of new Mike Patton interviews appearing here and there recently with lots of juicy new info, specifically on the future of Fantomas, Tomahawk and Faith No More. Check em out:

Metal Sucks

On Fantomas:

“I just need to write a new record for these guys. They’re just sitting around waiting for me. That’s the status. Very simple. I’ve just gotta, you know, do it. That’s (Fantomas) an important one to me. It’s close to my heart. I don’t wanna take it for granted.”

On Faith No More

“It just happened. I think it was a reconciliation of sorts. We’ve been offered to reform many, many times over the last ten years. At some point, we all realized, ‘Hey, what’s the problem here? Should we do this? Will the music stand up?’  That was a big question. So, we rehearsed to kinda figure out whether it would stand up or not. And it did. And here we are.”

On future Zorn Collaborations:

“Zorn’s written another Moonchild record that I gotta go out to New York and sing on it. In fact, I should be doing it right now.”

On Tomahawk:

“Yeah, yeah. But it’s not my project so… It’s Duane [Denison]’s project. He’s written a bunch of new tunes and he actually just sent me a CD the other day. It’s, like, acoustic guitar and metronome… We’re a long ways off, but yeah, I think there will be more music. Why not?”

The Skinny

On Mondo Cane:

“I knew I would interpret these pieces aggressively – but I didn’t want to murder them, because there has to be an element of respect there and to really just commit some kind of a crime in the name of nostalgia would not be cool… I wouldn’t sleep so well.”

On the future of Faith No More:

“I would venture a guess that this is going to be it, but hey – this is what our focus is now – once this is all over, maybe we’ll sit around, have a laugh and talk about the future. But right now I think it’s way too early to say.”

On future projects:

“I’m working on another score, for an Italian film which should be out later in the year. Mondo Cane is doing a tour in Europe in July, believe it or not, it’s a hell of a time to put it together but we’re going to be over there for around a month.”

Hat tip to Patton Archivo

In a recent interview with Metal Injection, Dave Lombardo was asked whether he would ever rejoin Fantomas. Not only did he say that it will happen, but that he has also been in recent email contact with Mike:

“(5.26) I just emailed Mike Patton and we are in constant contact, that door will never close. I had so much fun working within the Fantomas music and its something I’ll never ever want to close. I’m sure in the future because he did mention hey we need to work together again. We’re both busy with Faith No More and me with slayer and it’s been like that for a while, but i see it coming.”

This is great news for us dedicated Fantomas obsessees as things were looking a little dire there for a while!

Slayer are on the brink of an Australian tour, and for one special Sydney show will be performing Reign in Blood in it’s entirety.

http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/3538/dave-lombardo-of-slayer-interview-at-mayhem-fest-2009

In a recent interview at the Wormwood Chronicles, Dave Lombardo was asked about his current plans for working with Mike Patton:

“WC: Are you still involved with Mike Patton?

Lombardo: No, but that door has never completely shut. Me and Mike will work together in the future, I believe, if schedules permit. He’s great, I love his music, all of the stuff that we’ve done.

There’s always a chance.Right now, I’m focusing on trying to find a band that I could share my production experience with. Going to the studio with them and working with them in the same way producers have worked with me. I want to take my knowledge and apply it to bands that are up and coming.”

Is Fantomas officially over? My impression was that Terry Bozzio was a fill in while Dave was busy working with Slayer and that a Lombardo filled Fantomas would eventually take centre stage again.  But Lombardo not ruling out working with Patton again is a good sign. So what’s your opinion on this?

Thanks to FNM2.0 for the interview tip

To celebrate the 10th birthday of Ipecac Recordings, the man formally known as gerg, Greg Werkman, was interviewed in the latest issue of rock-a-rolla (a quality magazine).

On the new Fantomas:

“Mike’s not even really begun on that.  He has ideas but it’s not even close.”

On Crudo and Peeping Tom:

“There will also be a new Peeping Tom record, not this year though… Then him and Dan the Automator started working on a band called Crudo.  The thing about Mike is that he always has five or six records at various stages, all at the same time and it’s hard to tell which one’s gonna get done first.  And then other things happen in his life and everything is put on hold.  He just did the score for Crank: High Voltage.  That took up four or five months of his life this last year, and when things like that happen everything else stops until he finishes those projects.”

On the much anticipated italian pop covers album Mondo Cane:

“We got Mike’s big project that he’s been working on for a while, a little over a year, called Mondo Cane. He sings italian pop songs with a full orchestra. He taped a couple of the shows he did over there last year and then he’s been in the studio working on the tracks and adding some strings. It’s taking longer now with the FNM stuff going on, it’s gonna delay it a little. I hope that record comes out in November of this year, but maybe not.”

Hat tip and thanks to mindbait for the heads up and transcribing the interview snippets!

As it appears in the latest Drum (10th Feb issue):

“Fantomas nearly upstaged the main act with their renditions of ’70′s and ’80′s classic and cult movie theme songs, whilst dressed in white cricket uniforms, zinc smeared on cheeks. With a tight energy that took years of touring to hone, the band were amazingly precise on every note, especially drummer Dale Crover, whilst still giving frontman Mike Patton a chance to add his falsetto flairs and convulsing body movements to songs Der Golem and Cape Fear. They continued to play through through The Director’s Cut in random order, leaving the audience satisfied to the point where the main act could have been forgotten entirely.”

The rest is about Serj Tankian and his “band”. I’m not going to bother transcribing that as their show was less than average.

drummedia.com.au