Fantômas
The Director's Cut

THE REVIEW

This was unfortunately the album of my introduction to Fantomas.
I barely knew them, but my curiosity towards them was strong, and that pushed me to buy Director's Cut when it came out.
Scary, to an inexperienced ear that doesn't know Patton, the first track "The Godfather" might at first seem like a Finnish death song, but listening to the rest erases any doubt.
This has never been heard before.

Taken from the well-known soundtrack by our own Nino Rota, The Godfather summarizes what Patton proposed with the first Fantomas.
The violin that introduces the first song and the entire album foretells nothing good (in a good sense, of course).
The gentle violin is followed by a grind marked by Dave Lombardo and screams from Mr. Patton. Outbursts followed and alternated by the innocent vocalizations of good Mike in a mastery that makes Patton the conductor of the new millennium.
It makes me enjoy it.
The second track, "Der Golem," slow and heavy like no other, shows the freedom of the four on how to vary the usual 4/4 that metal offers.
Impossible not to mention all the tracks, from the melodic and hypothetical hit "Experiment in Terror," the engaging "Cape Fear," the melancholic and "childish" "Rosemary's Baby," the grind-core "The Omen" (which alludes to the theme of the devil, in a different version, in a Latin key, which could not be missing in the "videoteca" of Fantomas).
The cover of Morricone's "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" recalls the setting of Elio Petri's film of the same name, a song full of maranzani and piano. Here we remember that good Mike loves our "bel paese".
Then "Twin Peaks" leaves you breathless. Pattonian melodies where he manages to supplant the sax of the original song with his versatility that knows no limits.

It ends with the cover of the Charade theme: "Charade." It picks up the original percussion loop and makes it the base of his vocal delusions. A recorded applause at the end of the song is well-deserved, and the audience seems to shout: PATTON! PATTON! they have their reasons.

Excellent covers for excellent films, specially chosen by God Patton. I recommend them all if you haven't seen them.