Mr. Bungle released their excellent The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (read our review) on 10/30, and they celebrated with a livestreamed concert dubbed The Night They Came Home! on Halloween. The new album features proper studio recordings of the songs from Mr. Bungle's thrashy 1986 demo and, like on the album (and at their reunion tour in early 2020), original members Mike Patton, Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn were joined by thrash legends Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Dave Lombardo (Slayer). As you'd probably expect from Mr. Bungle, the livestream was highly entertaining, and they cared as much about comedy as they cared about putting on a killer metal show. It began documentary-style, with the members of the band telling stories on camera about their history and about how this current iteration of the band came together, and then comedian (and longtime Bungle pal) Neil Hamburger did an opening set, followed by Mr. Bungle's anticipated performance.
Like at the tour earlier this year, they stuck exclusively to the thrashy Easter Bunny material, plus a few well-matched covers including "Hell Awaits" by Dave Lombardo's former band, "Habla Español O Muere" (the reworked version of "Speak English Or Die" by Scott Ian's band Stormtroopers of Death, which also appears on the new Easter Bunny album), Corrosion of Conformity's "Loss For Words" (also on Bungle's new album), Circle Jerks' "World Up My Ass," and Bungle-fied versions of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" and the Mr. Rogers theme. They also played the set with Eddie Van Halen-branded guitar amps and encored with a cover of Van Halen's "Loss of Control," with Scott Ian playing EVH's signature "shark" guitar.