The new Dead Cross album is almost officially released and while I've had the pleasure of living with the album for a while, the whole shebang is streaming in full (below) thanks to our friends at Noisey.
Noisey also conducted an interview with the band, which, of course, features frontman Mike Patton, drummer Dave Lombardo, bassist Justin Pearson and guitarist Michael Crain. Lombardo explained how Patton got in the mix:
Lombardo's assistant suggested inviting Patton to sing instead. "Immediately I said, 'No, he's busy!'" he says. "He's doing soundtracks for Netflix shows, and he just finished with Faith No More. Who knows if they're gonna be touring? He's busy. He's doing his own thing. And besides, it's a hardcore band. I don't know if Patton would want do that."
But Patton had already caught wind of Dead Cross and texted Lombardo about releasing their debut on his label, Ipecac. Not long after, he received a reply from the drummer asking him to sing on the album. "It took a second for me to think about—like, wow, do I really want to do something like this?" Patton says. "So two seconds later, I said, 'Yes, I'll do it.' And they sent me the music they'd recorded, and I did my best with it."
Interestingly, Patton described the situation like when he first entered Faith No More. "It echoed back to when I joined Faith No More, to be honest," Patton says. "Here I was, joining an established sort of thing, and I had to do it on my own, with a real independent sort of focus." The whole interview is worth a read.
Stream it below. The album comes out this Friday, August 4th and can be ordered for as low as $9.49 on Amazon. Dead Cross is doing one tour, and likely that's it for the future. Get dates here.
