Fantômas is the brainchild of mike patton.
Fantomas delirium cordia vinyl.
Delirium cordia is the third full length release from fantomas.
It s dark scary beautiful and intriguing.
Their 1999 self titled debut was the first release on the now infamous ipecac recordings label followed that up with the haunting director s cut in 2001 a.
Delirium cordia is the perfect mood setter to listen to while writing fiction and poetry if what you write leans towards the misanthropic the violent the introspective and it leaves me more convinced than ever that mike patton at some point will be approached by an intelligent director to score a daring and unconventional film or videogame.
The name comes from a series of pre world war 1 french crime thriller novels.
Bright and loose patton describes the new album as nursery rhymes cartoon sound effects and choppy arrangements.
Recorded in the spring of 2003 during the same sessions as surgically precise delirium cordia suspended animation is the yang to delirium cordia s ying.
Electronic rock style.
Normally i d knock this for being a picture disc but it has the best sound i ve heard on one.
Fantomas features mike patton on vocals tomahawk faith no more buzz on guitar melvins dave lombardo on percussion slayer and trevor dunn on bass mr.
Comprised of one long song 74 minutes and no track breaks delirium cordia really requires the listener to take it all in at once.
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Obviously there s still a bit of surface noise much less than most pic discs though but even that is extremely hard to notice given that there s actually recorded noise that the producer put into the album s mix.
Like the difference between seeing a film in a theater and on tv the effect just isn t quite the same if you break it up.
The character fantômas is an anti hero who commits the most appalling crimes.