Danny Elfman and Filter’s Richard Patrick on New Albums, Film Scores, and Getting Heavier: Podcast

Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Danny Elfman and Richard Patrick apparently missed the meeting about aging gracefully into an acoustic guitar. Backstage at Louisville’s Louder Than Life, the two separately spoke with Kyle Meredith about keeping the distortion cranked while juggling new records, movie scores, and creative impulses. Elfman previewed his follow-up to Big Mess and its accompanying cinematic head trip, while the Filter frontman detailed The Antidote and the industrial punishment of his project A Place to Kill. Listen above or wherever you get your podcasts. Elfman’s return to the stage began with an unlikely seduction at Coachella, where the video screens convinced him there was fresh trouble worth making. Now his sets scramble Oingo Boingo, film music, and abrasive solo material into what he calls “a mishmash of my brain.” His next album, which he says is due at the beginning of 2027, expands that approach into an accompanying film featuring Caleb Landry Jones, Slash, and Thundercat. “It’s kind of a fanboy David Lynch homage.” Meanwhile, scoring Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire meant chasing experiments with harp, bass, and percuss...