Fantômas
Delìrium Còrdia

Mike Patton... ah, what a character, huh? What is he, a genius? Maybe. A madman? Almost certainly yes.
He had already given us a tangible proof of his mental instability with Faith No More, practically an institution of global alternative rock, and what does he come out with in 1998? I'll tell you what, with an avantgarde metal project named Fantomas, which manages to be atypical in a genre, that of avantgarde, which has atypicality as its foundation. Of course, with the definition of avantgarde metal, don't expect to find anything that could even remotely remind you of bands like Arcturus or Maudlin Of The Well; here I would rather talk about a meeting between the more electronic Ulver and something undefined.

But let's get back to the subject of the review, an album dated 2004 that goes by the name of "Delirium Còrdia", a record composed of a single song lasting over an hour (74 minutes and 17 seconds to be precise), which has very little musical about it, let me explain: in the impetus to create something original and that differentiated itself from the general concept of music, good old Mike forgot that an album needs a connecting thread, something that makes us understand that we are dealing with a musical product, here instead we find ourselves in front of a jumble of sounds thrown together randomly, in a chaotic manner, without a minimum of criteria, in which voices (a woman in the midst of an embrace, gothic choirs) and moments in which the classic instruments make their appearance, only to be suffocated by the electronic base, occasionally flounder. Well, what else is there to say, except that the track's closure is entrusted to 17 interminable minutes of silence, broken at regular intervals by a ticking in the background.

This "Delirium Còrdia" I wouldn’t even define as a musical album, I would rather describe it as a whim (annoying for that matter) that this capricious "genius" wanted to indulge in, but let me tell you with all my heart Mr. Patton, no one felt the need.