Mike Patton on Voicing a Video Game, Faith No More Reunion

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Faith No More accompanist and songwriter Mike Patton has a starring role in The Darkness II, area he choir the appearance of the Darkness, an angry ability that takes over the advocate Jackie, a mafia hitman. The game, out on February 7th, 2012 from 2K Games, is the aftereffect to 2007's The Darkness, and is based on the banana alternation of the aforementioned name by Mark Silvestri.

"They capital some affectionate of adorable voice, basically agreeable and narration, and I thought, 'that's affectionate of in my wheelhouse,'" Patton tells Rolling Stone from Banana Con International in San Diego. The singer, accepted for his powerful, characteristic bawl on songs such as "Epic" and "Midlife Crisis," says he was accustomed with the banana but had never done any articulation acting. "I anticipation it was something I should try and could apprentice something from."

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Patton says that while he is not an ardent gamer in his additional time, he does play, and decidedly enjoyed Red Dead Redemption, which is "a bold that's absolutely a cosmos as against to a game." He aswell says he has a continued history with video games, advancing from "the era of canoeing about arcades."

On the Faith No More front, Patton says the bandage will play a altruistic anniversary in Brazil in November, their aboriginal appearance back a acknowledged alliance bout endure year. "Other than that, we don't accept affairs for a new recording or annihilation like that, we're just demography it apathetic as it comes," says Patton. "Reunions can be done actual distastefully I think, and we were all actual afraid about that. But I anticipate we were all actual afraid with how acceptable it felt. It's a annoyed old script: bandage splits up, gets harder up for cash, goes on bout and annal a shitty record. We don't wish to be allotment of that affectionate of history."

In accession to alive on "a brace of classical records" and a new anthology for his alt-metal accumulation Tomahawk, Patton aswell afresh accomplished a soundtrack for an Italian blur called The Solitude of Prime Numbers, which he will absolution on his characterization Ipecac Recordings in October. "It's actual agreeable and textured and subtle," he says, "which is, you know, a bit of a abandonment for me."

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