page_title: Mr. Bungle
hierarchical_section_title: Mr. Bungle
caption_attribution_description: English: . Author: Heather Leah Kennedy Source: http://www.bunglefever.com
context_page_description: Mr. Bungle is a band from Northern California. Having gone through many incarnations throughout their career, the band is best known for their experimental rock period. During this time, they featured a highly eclectic style, cycling through several musical genres within the course of a single song, including heavy metal, avant-garde jazz, ska, disco, and funk. This period also saw the band utilizing unconventional structures and samples, playing a wide array of instruments, dressing up in masks, jumpsuits, and other costumes, and performing many diverse cover songs.
  The band was founded in Eureka, California in 1985 as a death metal project while the members were still in high school. They were named after a character in the 1959 children's educational film Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners, later featured in the 1981 HBO special The Pee-wee Herman Show. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid-to-late 1980s, during which they primarily played ska punk. They signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1990 and released three full-length studio albums between 1991 and 1999, which featured the eclectic, experimental style they became known for.
context_section_description: Mr. Bungle is a band from Northern California. Having gone through many incarnations throughout their career, the band is best known for their experimental rock period. During this time, they featured a highly eclectic style, cycling through several musical genres within the course of a single song, including heavy metal, avant-garde jazz, ska, disco, and funk. This period also saw the band utilizing unconventional structures and samples, playing a wide array of instruments, dressing up in masks, jumpsuits, and other costumes, and performing many diverse cover songs.
  The band was founded in Eureka, California in 1985 as a death metal project while the members were still in high school. They were named after a character in the 1959 children's educational film Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners, later featured in the 1981 HBO special The Pee-wee Herman Show. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid-to-late 1980s, during which they primarily played ska punk. They signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1990 and released three full-length studio albums between 1991 and 1999, which featured the eclectic, experimental style they became known for. The band toured in 1999 and 2000 to support their third album before going on hiatus; ultimately revealing that they had dissolved in 2004. On August 13, 2019, it was announced Mr. Bungle would reunite as a thrash metal band for a series of shows in February 2020, which saw them performing their 1986 demo album The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny with Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo. The following month, it was announced that the band had returned to the studio to re-record the demo as a professional album, which is expected for release on October 30, 2020.
  Although Mr. Bungle went through several line-up changes throughout each incarnation, the longest-serving members were vocalist Mike Patton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonists Clinton "Bär" McKinnon and Theo Lengyel, and drummer Danny Heifetz, with Patton, Spruance, and Dunn performing in every version of band. Members were based in San Francisco during the band's tenure with Warner Bros.
caption: Mr. Bungle live in 1999 during the California Tour
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