http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.381&rws=%2Fmr-bungle%2Fmusic-videos.rssImpossible to pigeonhole for more than a minute at a time, Mr. Bungle have marched an inspired path of lunacy for the past 15 years. They've evolved from mask-wearing Death Metal-ers to the genre-jumping, largely studio-based band they are now, their music growing increasingly more elaborate in the process. Yet certain characteristics have remained consistent, chief among them a dark sense of humor and a knack for skillfully borrowing/rearranging elements from diverse sources (Ennio Morricone, the Beach Boys, Slayer, Perrey-Kingsley). Their 1991 debut, often tagged as "Funk Metal," reaches a level of circus-esque pipe organ-drenched sickness quite different from the genre's currently popular strains. The subsequent <I>Disco Volante</I>, however, defies categorization, moving even further from traditional songwriting territory as it shifts violently between sections of Bop-ish jazz, Melvins-esque sludge, Lounge, Metal, and flat-out Noise. 1999's <I>California</I> again surprised listeners with its sunny pop approach, meanwhile retaining the expected levels of warped inventiveness and leaving fans asking, "What's next?" - Will YorkExperimentalen720Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:52 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.381&rws=%2Fmr-bungle%2Fmusic-videos.rss Impossible to pigeonhole for more than a minute at a time, Mr. Bungle have marched an inspired path of lunacy for the past 15 years. They've evolved from mask-wearing Death Metal-ers to the genre-jumping, largely studio-based band they are now, their music growing increasingly more elaborate in the process. Yet certain characteristics have remained consistent, chief among them a dark sense of humor and a knack for skillfully borrowing/rearranging elements from diverse sources (Ennio Morricone, the Beach Boys, Slayer, Perrey-Kingsley). Their 1991 debut, often tagged as "Funk Metal," reaches a level of circus-esque pipe organ-drenched sickness quite different from the genre's currently popular strains. The subsequent <I>Disco Volante</I>, however, defies categorization, moving even further from traditional songwriting territory as it shifts violently between sections of Bop-ish jazz, Melvins-esque sludge, Lounge, Metal, and flat-out Noise. 1999's <I>California</I> again surprised listeners with its sunny pop approach, meanwhile retaining the expected levels of warped inventiveness and leaving fans asking, "What's next?" - Will York