Mike Patton

	Patton with his band Fantômas in Norway, 2005
	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Corpse Flower (with Jean-Claude Vannier )

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (born January 27, 1968 in Eureka , California ) is an American singer, songwriter , multi-instrumentalist, actor and vocal artist.

Life

Mike Patton has been the lead singer of Faith No More since 1988 ; the band split in 1998 and reunited in 2009. Before that he sang with Mr. Bungle , a band from his hometown that was founded in 1985 and has since been disbanded. Other Patton bands are the rock all-star formation Fantômas, founded in 1999 with drummer Dave Lombardo ( Slayer ), Trevor Dunn on bass (Mr. Bungle) and King Buzzo ( The Melvins ), and the band Tomahawk , founded in 2000, who perform on the published by he co-founded and operated label Ipecac Recordings .

Patton has so far processed styles of music that range from avant-garde jazz to noise and soft pop music . In addition, he uses several languages when singing. For example, he wrote individual songs for Faith No More in Portuguese or German (Das Schützenfest) and contributed a cover version of Ford Mustang in French to a compilation of songs by Serge Gainsbourg . In Fantômas he has also worked in Latin elements (The Omen). Patton is fluent in Italian.

Since around 2005 he has been working regularly with John Zorn , u. a. as part of the Moonchild project . Zorn co-produced Mr. Bungle's self-titled debut album (1991) .

Patton starred in the 2005 B-movie Firecracker .

In 2006 the album Peeping Tom of his new project Peeping Tom was released . Each track on this album was recorded with one or more guest musicians, including Amon Tobin , Massive Attack and Norah Jones .

In the video game The Darkness , he lent his voice to the character of the same name . Furthermore, he has taken over the synchronization of the main character Nathan Spencer in the 2009 version of the video game Bionic Commando .

He also synchronized the screams of the infected creatures in the Hollywood blockbuster I Am Legend and the video game Left 4 Dead , as well as the angry core (Anger Sphere) in the video game portal . In 2008 he composed the score for the short film A Perfect Place . He also wrote the soundtrack for the 2009 film Crank 2: High Voltage .

In 2010 Patton presented his album Mondo Cane, named after the film of the same name . Accompanied by an orchestra, he sings Italian pop songs from the 60s and 70s. a. from the pen of Ennio Morricone or Bert Kaempfert .

Patton was married to the Italian artist Titi Zuccatosta from 1994 to 2001

Discography

Faith No More

1989: The Real Thing
1990: Live at the Brixton Academy
1992: Angel Dust
1993: Songs To Make Love To
1995: King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime
1997: Album of the Year
1998: You smell so good '98 - EP (von Rammstein , Faith No More remixed a version of the song)
1998: Who Cares a Lot? (Compilation)
2003: This Is It: The Best of Faith No More (Compilation)
2005: Epic and Other Hits (Compilation)
2005: The Platinum Collection (Compilation)
2008: The Works (compilation)
2009: The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection (Compilation)
2015: Sol Invictus

Mr. Bungle

1986: The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny (Demo)
1987: Bowel of Chiley (Demo)
1988: Goddammit I Love America (Demo)
1989: OU818 (demo)
1991: Mr. Bungle
1995: Disco Volante
1999: California
2020: The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny

Fantômas

1999: Fantômas
2001: The Director's Cut
2002: Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (by The Fantômas Melvins Big Band)
2004: Delìrium Còrdia
2005: Suspended Animation
2005: Animali In Calore Surriscaldati Con Ipertermia Genitale / Cat in Red ( Split -5 "record or -3" CD with Melt-Banana )

tomahawk

2001: Tomahawk
2003: With gas
2007: Anonymous
2013: Oddfellows
2014: MEAT EP

Peeping Tom

2006: Mojo Exclusive EP (contains Preschool )
2006: Peeping Tom (album by Patton in collaboration with Odd Nosdam , Doseone and Jel from anticon , Rahzel , Dan the Automator , Amon Tobin , Kool Keith , Massive Attack , Bebel Gilberto , Kid Koala , Norah Jones , Dub Trio and others)

Dead Cross

2017: Dead Cross
2018: Dead Cross EP

The Moonchild Trio

2006: Moonchild (Songs without Words)
2006: Astronomers
2007: Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
2008: The Crucible
2010: Ipsissimus
2012: Templars: In Sacred Blood
2014: The Last Judgment

Tētēma

2014: Geocidal
2020: Necroscape

Solo albums

1996: Adult Themes for Voice
1997: Pranzo Oltranzista
2002: Collected Psyche (compilation)
2003: Collected Psyche II (compilation)
2005: General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners (with The X-Ecutioners )
2008: A Perfect Place (film soundtrack composed by Patton)
2009: Crank 2: High Voltage OST (score composed by Patton)
2010: Mondo Cane
2011: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (film music for The Solitude of Prime Numbers )
2013: The Place Beyond the Pines (film soundtrack)

Collaborations

2019: Corpse Flower , together with Jean-Claude Vannier

Participation in projects, guest performances

Unless otherwise named as singer:

Patton live with John Zorn , 2006

Kevyn Dymond & Mark Shafer - Play Something Else (1988)
Serge Gainsbourg - Great Jewish Music (1997)
Maldoror ( Masami Akita (von Merzbow ) and Mike Patton) - She (1999)
Lovage - Music to make love to your old Lady by (2001) (with producer Dan the Automator and singer Jennifer Charles )
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene (2002)
Eyvind Kang - Virginal Co Ordinates (2004)
Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People (2004)
Kaada / Patton - Romances (2004)
Björk - Medúlla (2004)
Dub Trio - New Heavy (Song: Not Alone) (2006)
Practice - Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness) (2008)
To - Carboniferous (2009)
Drill & the Club of Gore - Condolences (2011)
Luciano Berio - Laborintus II (Mike Patton & Ictus Ensemble ) (2012)
The Melvins - guitarist, singer and percussionist on the song GI Joe from the album The Crybaby
John Zorn - various
Sepultura - various
The Darkness ( PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 game) - Dubbing voice of the Darkness (2006–2007)
Bionic Commando (PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 / PC ) - dubbing voice of protagonist Nathan Spencer
Isis - Oceanic Remixes (Remix by Maritime)
The Young Gods , Montreux, et al.
Three One G - Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (2020)

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Web links

Commons : Mike Patton - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Mike Patton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Mike Patton at Discogs (English)
pattonfanatic.com: Discography - Albums, Collaborations, & Videos

personal data
SURNAME	Patton, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Patton, Michael Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eureka , California

[DEcharts-1] Mike Patton in the German charts

[2] Heise ticker: Spider costumes, guardian angels and steel arm prostheses for the Schwinger Club (heise.de)

[3] Tonspion: Schöner Schmalz (Tonspion.de)

[4] Sydney Morning Herald: The leap from Faith


Studio albums	We Care a Lot (1985) • Introduce Yourself (1987) • The Real Thing (1989) • Angel Dust (1992) • King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime (1995) • Album of the Year (1997) • Sol Invictus (2015)
Extended plays	Songs to Make Love To (1993)
Live albums	Live at the Brixton Academy (1991)
Compilation albums	Who Cares a Lot? - The Greatest Hits (1998) • The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection (2009)