Mr. Bungle

Unlike most thrash metal bands of the '80s, Mr. Bungle was formed in an impoverished logging and fishing village by a trio of curious, mercurial teenagers. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn formed the amorphous "band" in Humboldt County, California in 1985, sifting through a variety of members until settling on a lineup around 1989 that managed to get signed to Warner Bros Records. By 2000, the band had released three albums, toured the western hemisphere and avoided any kind of critical acclaim. Some claim that the band broke up afterwards, but there is no proof of this either. What is true is that they did not perform under that name again for 20 years, while pursuing various other styles of music that allowed them to pay their rent.

In 2020, a new version of Mr. Bungle emerged, reuniting the original trio of Dunn, Patton and Spruance with Scott Ian of Anthrax and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo to release the Eureka-born band's unreleased demo, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny.

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