Hot Damn! Those Mr. Bungle “Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny” concerts! I’m not sure if any of us were expecting these shows featuring their old demo album to be as amazing as they were. I was lucky enough to get to see them twice, thanks to a friend who gave me  a ticket for the second SF show. So much fun. Mike Patton was as balls-to-the-wall nuts as he usually is. Trey Spruance was shredding insane solos, like some sort of parody of Kerry King, but better. Trevor Dunn and Dave Lombardo laid down a juggernaut rhythm section while Scott Ian gave one of the most enthusiastic performance I’ve ever seen. He was having more fun than anyone. The songs were a seriously punishing stew of relentless thrash metal riffs that were both firmly old school, yet oddly forward looking. I loved it. I listened to bootlegs on repeat while making these paintings, looking forward to the newly recorded version. The album is out now, check it out. Buy a copy!

The band was not involved in this project. Hopefully they are good sports and don’t worry that I have painted their heads severed. What can I say? I like drawing heads and don’t care much about drawing necks and shoulders… Having them dripping blood just seemed appropriate to the violent music.

These paintings are mixed media on paper. The sketches were drawn digitally. The text behind them are song titles from the album. 

These are available as archival quality prints at my website in case you just gotta have one.