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Mike Patton is in a whole lot of bands: Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Dead Cross, plenty of others that even he might not remember. Back in 1999, Patton formed a band called Tomahawk to make jagged, intense hard rock. Patton’s bandmates in Tomahawk are all seasoned pros with busy schedules: Mr. Bungle’s Trevor Dunn, the Jesus...

Boilermakers, Mouth Breathers and Monkey Tricks: the best songs from The Jesus Lizard

Having wrapped up a Faith No More reunion in 2012, Mike Patton found some time to resurrect Tomahawk. Propelled by the furious drumming of John Stanier (Battles), the metallic drone guitars of Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard) and the sludgy bass lines of Trevor Dunn (Melvins), Tomahawk are touring in support of their new album Oddfellows [...]

The four members of the scrape-rock supergroup Tomahawk — Mike Patton, Battles’ John Stanier, the Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison, Melvins’ Trevor Dunn — are all virtuosic maulers of their respective instruments, and every so often, then all converge to make an unholy din. Oddfellows, their new albu...