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dälek's MC dälek & Mike Mare (CREDIT: Michael Patras) New Jersey's own Noise Rap group dälek returned late last night with new music. dälek announced the impending release of their eighth album, Precipice, coming this April on Ipecac Recordings. News of the album arrives with the release of the song and accompanying video for the Brickyard Boom-Bap track "Decimation (Dis Nation.)" It was directed by founder Will Brooks AKA MC dälek himself. "Precipice was a completely different record pre-Pandemic," Brooks explains. "We had been working on the sketch of what the album was going to be at the end of 2019. I think, me and (Mike) Manteca had narrowed it down to 17 joints out of the 46 or so that we had started with. Me & Joshua Booth had taken the 17 and really fleshed out the joints. The idea was to bounce them back to Mike and, then, arrange [and] write lyrics. 2020, obviously, had different plans for everybody. We, basically, put everything on...

Mr. Bungle 2020 Line-up (CREDIT: Eric Livingston) Mr. Bungle was Mike Patton's pre-Faith No More band, originally active from 1985-2004 and covered a gamut of styles ranging from Experimental Rock to Alternative Metal, Avant-garde Metal to Ska Punk, Thrash Metal to Jazz Fusion, and more. Mr. Bungle's core members from 1985-2000 (when they played their last live show) included Patton, along with guitarist Trey Spruance and bassist Trevor Dunn with additional members including Theo Lengyel, Jed Watts, Luke Miller, Scott Fritz, Hans Wagner, Danny Heifetz, and Clinton "Bär" McKinnon. In the 20 years since their initial dissolution, Mr. Bungle's members went on to form and play with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Dead Cross, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Peeping Tom, Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, Weird Little Boy, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, The Melvins (Lite,) Melt-Banana, Link Wray, UMLAUT, and many more. The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo by Mr. Bungle...