MR. BUNGLE — Mr. Bungle (review)

MR. BUNGLE — Mr. Bungle album cover Album · 1991 · Avant-garde Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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Not bad for a debut album. This first Mr.Bungle effort shows how good the band is, especially in songs like "Quote Unquote" and "Slowly Growing Deaf". But the rest, to be honest, is very immature, like you should expect from a debut. The style is particular and unique, an mixes different genre: metal, funk, prog, avant garde, jazz. All the songs are very fast, strong, so they can be considered metal, but also decorated with some prog ornaments. Fascinating in some moments, less in others.

The album starts with "Quote Unquote", the best song off this album in my opinion, catchy, kind of mysterious, and Mike Patton reaches to one of his best performances. "Slowly Growing Deaf" is a weird song, but great. I love the mysterious and anxious part, played with keyboards and accompanied by Patton. This is definitely the best part of the song. These are the only two songs that I really liked. The rest isn't bad, and it isn't really forgettable, it simply just never appealed to me. Three stars.
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