So you may have heard the news that Amazon.com recently launched an mp3 download service, comparable to that of iTunes, though without all the annoying DRM’ing. I spent some time exploring it, and noticed that there are really some awesome deals to be had, if you poke around long enough.

Probably the coolest thing I found (and one that made me wish I hadn’t already bought this CD for full price) was the fact that you can buy Fantomas’s “Delirium Cordia” album, in its entirety, for $0.99. A dollar! 74 minutes of bizarre, highly disturbing experimental weirdness! Seriously, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t buy this. Or maybe you haven’t heard about this album yet…

Fantomas is one of many Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More) projects, and this particular album features one highly experimental song clocking in at over 70 minutes. Sure, the last 20 minutes are just white noise, but it’s all part of Patton’s plan. Fantomas has adopted a surgery-theme for this opus, and there’s plenty of grinding, chipping, moaning, and sloshing noises throughout, to really make you feel like some awful procedure is being performed on you. Featuring very diverse instrumentation, haunting atmopheric passages, and scattered bits of scathing metal riffing, this is one CD that will really freak out your friends. Oh, and it gets bonus points from me for containing a bit of throat singing.