Listen to the First Song From Mike Patton’s New Project, tētēma

Mike Patton has been pushing sonic boundaries far beyond Faith No More for decades and his new project, tētēma, could be his biggest experiment yet.

A collaboration with Australian composer/pianist Anthony Pateras, tētēma created their upcoming debut, 'Geocidal,' over the course of more than a year -- recording analogue electronics, strings, winds, brass, orchestral percussion, and Patton's otherworldly vocals -- each laid down in a different location. The result, as Pateras puts it in a press release, is "displaced, almost vaporous intensity -- it comes from everywhere and nowhere."

The duo have unveiled the song 'Tenz,' an aural assault featuring a driving, tribal rhythm and just one line from Patton repeated over and over again (listen below). "This track experiments with a palimpsest of rhythmic microcosms, consisting of drums, voice, arp 2600, contrabass recorder, nylon string guitar and marimba," said Pateras. "The orchestration attempts to create kaleidoscopic barber pole effect: a constantly rotating electro-acoustic cross-pollination which culminated in some kind of brutal polychronic trance music, albeit with a glockenspiel coda."

Check out the song below. 'Geocidal' is set for release Dec. 9 via Patton's Ipecac Recordings.