Fantômas is the brainchild of Mike Patton. The name comes from a series of pre World War 1 French crime thriller novels. The character Fantômas is an anti-hero who commits the most apalling crimes.Fantômas is anyone and no one, everywhere and nowhere, waging an implacable war against the bourgeois society in which he moves. The Lord of Terror!

The music can only be described as unique. From subtle and precise to brutal and explosive. It is influenced equally by hardcore/death metal, cartoon music and film soundtracks. It is made up of tiny cells of music that move like frames in a comic strip. It is certainly an amalgamation of the bands from which the members come without sounding very much like any one of them.

We do not know exactly what direction this band will go in. The band released their first album titled "Amenaza al Mundo" (which means: "It threatens the World") on Ipecac Recordings (co-owned by Mike Patton) in the spring of 1999. They have successfully toured around the world in front of confused but mostly happy crowds. After the great introduction they released their second album in the summer of 2001. It is a collection of soundtrack covers from various classical horror movies, so its title became "The Director's Cut". The third studio album "Delìrium Còrdia" came out in the begining of 2004. It is a ambient record containg only one track which takes the listener to an absurd and dark journey. The 4th Fantômas full length is not scheduled yet but it is starting to look like early 2005 for that one.