This week sees new shit from Device, Stone Sour, Volbeat, Drowning Pool, Mike Patton, and more hitting stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you’re snagging a copy of and which record should be the Album of the Week. Pick your favorite and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, April 15, at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. For the results, click here.
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pant yesterday that an as-yet unidentified song performed by Faith No More at their November 8 concert in Argentina could in fact be new, it now appears likely that the track was in fact a B-Side.
In a recent interview with MovieWeb, frontman Mike Patton responded to a question about whether the band would be performing any B-sides when they played King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime in its entirety during a festival in Chile by stating “I think there maybe…We are doing a tune we’ve never done from that era. I guess that would be a B-side. I don’t know if we released that at all…I don’t know! [futureusgalleryLaughs]
Until further word, it appears that this is the most plausible explanation, especially given that Patton has previously stated that the band has no plans to record a new album.
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It’s Tuesday–the day that albums come out–and this one is a doozy, including new shit from Slipknot, Megadeth, Metallica, Steel Panther, and Mike Patton, among others. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to get.
The Dreaming – Puppet (Ephocal Artist Records/EMI)
Illogicist – The Unconsciousness of Living (Willowtip)
Krisiun – The Great Execution (Century Media)
Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)
Megadeth – TH1RT3EN (Roadrunner)
Mike Patton – Music From The Film and Inspired By the Book The Solitude of Prime Numbers (La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi) (Ipecac)
Orphaned Land – The Road To Or Shalem DVD (Century Media)
Sick of It All – Nonstop (Century Media)
Slipknot – Iowa: 10th Anniversary Edition (Roadrunner)
Steel Panther – Balls Out (Universal Republic)
Taake – Noregs Vaapen (Candlelight)
Terror – Keepers Of The Faith (re-release) (Century Media)
Throne Of Katarsis – Ved Graven (Candlelight)
Trillium – Alloy (Frontiers)
Vallenfyre – A Fragile King (Century Media)
Our favorite holiday? Easy: Halloween. We’re eagerly counting down the days to All Hallows Eve, and we’re doing it by enlisting some of our favorite rockers to make their picks of the creepiest, most disturbing, goriest shit ever. So check back right here at RevolverMag.com every day until the big, bad scariest one of them all. Today, Mike Patton of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, et al. gives us his five most spine-tingling horror soundtracks in anticipation of the release of his own soundtrack for the Italian drama film, The Solitude of Prime Numbers. His score comes out on Tuesday.
The Omen
(Score by Jerry Goldsmith)
“This bombastic score absolutely made the movie. If you watch the film with the sound muted, you will see what I mean. Beautiful choir textures that, over time, have become iconic in the horror genre.”
Rosemary’s Baby
(Score by Christopher Komeda)
“Simply put, one of the simplest and most haunting themes ever written.”
Kwaidan
(Score by Toru Takemitsu)
“Special electronic effects were created for this core by breaking large chunks of wood. If that doesn’t convince you, then check out the film: It is one of the most elegant and haunting you may find.”
The Birds
(Nonmusical score by Oskar Sala)
“An incredible score with no known musical ‘notes.’ The entire score was produced by an early electronic instrument called the ‘mixtrautonium,’ and is an amazing example of how sound design and sound effects can be fused with image to great musical effect. Hats off to director Alfred Hitchcock for realizing this and creating a truly terrifying sonic bastard.”
“Sounds of Walt Disney’s Haunted Mansion”
“This is not a ‘film score’ per se, but it might as well be. The dialogue and cues are so vivid that the listener is immediately transported into the dark recesses of Disneyland. I can’t think of a scarier place to be.”
Former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton is releasing a new album of material inspired by the book the Solitude of Prime Numbers on November 1. The Italian novel, by Paolo Giordano, was released in 2008 and subsequently made into a film, for which Patton contributed music. The record is titled Music from the Film and Inspired By the Book the Solitude of Prime Numbers.
Patton has said that the record represents a personal “sonic departure.” The novel, itself, tells the story of two damaged individuals, both lonely like prime numbers, yet close to each other, separated by even numbers.
View the full track listing below, appropriately numbered sequentially with the first 16 prime numbers.