MR. BUNGLE DEBUT “SUDDEN DEATH” FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM THE RAGING WRATH OF THE EASTER BUNNY DEMO (OCT. 30, IPECAC RECORDINGS) https://lnk.to/MBWrath TICKETS & EXCLUSIVE MERCH FOR THE HALLOWEEN VIRTUAL LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE, “THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME!,” AVAILABLE NOW www.mrbungle.live “…Mr. Bungle are reliving their very earliest days and kicking a whole lot of ass in the process.” – Stereogum “… The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny is the band at their most thrashing and acerbically noisiest… one of the best thrash albums of the year.” – Decibel “This isn’t the left-field art rock of California, but full-on classic hardcore taken to thrash metal extremes.” – Consequence of Sound | | |
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| | Oct. 22, 2020, Eureka, Calif. – Mr. Bungle, who are mere days away from the release of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (Oct. 30, Ipecac Recordings), have shared a third and final single ahead of the 11-song release, streaming “Sudden Death” (https://lnk.to/MBWrath). | | |
| | The song’s arrival comes as the Bay Area-born band, which features core Mr. Bungle members Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton and Trey Spruance with Scott Ian (Anthrax, S.O.D.) and Dave Lombardo (Dead Cross, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies), prepare for the Halloween virtual live concert experience dubbed “The Night They Came Home!” The online event screens at 12 noon pacific/3 pm eastern on Oct. 31 with the on-demand program available for the following 72 hours. Tickets and exclusive merchandise are available now via www.mrbungle.live. As Rolling Stone said in their Fall music preview: “musical curveballs are encoded in Mr. Bungle’s DNA” so fans can, and should, expect the unexpected. | | |
| | Mr. Bungle announced the forthcoming release of The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo to great fanfare. The album news followed a spate of early 2020 live performances that sold out immediately and saw the band playing to some of its biggest audiences ever. The album, which is a proper recording of Mr. Bungle’s much traded, yet unreleased, 1986 demo cassette, has been previewed with singles and videos for “Eracist” (https://youtu.be/Cug4UPwcvlo) and “Raping Your Mind” (https://youtu.be/3U5ZKKxqUzY). Decibel declared the collection “one of the best thrash albums of the year,” Stereogum said “…Mr. Bungle are reliving their very earliest days and kicking a whole lot of ass in the process,” and Brooklyn Vegan dubbed the release simply “badass.” About Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle was formed in an impoverished lumber and fishing town by a trio of curious, volatile teenagers. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn beget the amorphous “band” in 1985 up in Humboldt County, Calif., sifting through a variety of members until around 1989 when they settled on a lineup that managed to get signed to Warner Bros. Records. No one really knows how this happened and it remains a complete mystery that even the algorithms of the internet can’t decode. Up until 2000 they released three albums (Mr. Bungle in 1991, Disco Volante in 1995 and California in 1999), toured a good portion of the Western hemisphere and avoided any sort of critical acclaim. Some argue that the band subsequently broke up but there is also no proof of this. What is true is that they took 20 years off from performing under said moniker while they pursued various other musics that, in contrast, paid the rent. | | |
The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo cover |
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