Nick Oliveri's Mondo Generator Is Revving Up Again
Thursday August 03, 2006 @ 07:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

Mondo Generator

Former Queens Of The Stone Age bassist/vocalist Nick Oliveri is set to release another album under theMondo Generator moniker.

Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails is Oliveri's first full-length release since leaving Queens Of The Stone Age in early 2004 and is Mondo Generator's sophomore album following 2003's A Drug Problem That Never Existed. The new record will come out on September 4 in Europe via Mother Tongue, while a North American release date is still pending.

Like on previous Mondo Generator projects, a rotating cast of musicians is featured on Dead Planet. The British duo Winnebago Deal — comprised of guitarist Ben Perrier and drummer Ben Thomas — play on most of it. Oliveri met the duo while on tour, asked them to join him on stage, and they've since become quasi-group members. Several of Oliveri's hometown friends from Palm Beach, California also helped out on the album.

Mondo Generator will head to Europe for festival and headlining dates before the album's release. The touring incarnation of Mondo Generator will feature guitarist Ian Taylor and drummer Josh LaMar alongside Oliveri.

Oliveri is also keeping busy by appearing on the new Dwarves album and by adding vocals to Winnebago Deal's upcoming release, Flight Of The Raven. Oliveri also recorded an all-acoustic album called Demolition Day, but is unsure whether or not it will be released.

"I really don't know what's going to happen with it," Oliveri told Billboard.com. "I just kind of lost interest in putting anything out myself. It's a matter of if somebody wants to put it out or not."

It's a good thing that Oliveri has so much going on, because it doesn't seem that he'll reunite with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme anytime soon.

"I haven't really talked to him, so I don't know," Oliveri says. "I have no idea."

—Max Hayman