Mike Patton has already toured Australia with Faith No More and released an album of Italian pop songs from the 1950s and 1960s this year, but during a chat with triple j today Patton revealed that he is, as always, working on plenty of eclectic new projects.

“I definitely have some records that I have in the can,” Patton claimed. “I’m finishing the score for this Italian film called The Solitude Of Prime Numbers. I’m doing a bunch of tours this summer including a ten date run in Europe with Faith No More.”

“Then when I get back from that there’s a new project that I’m hoping to get done by the end of the year called Nevermen and it’s with Tunde [Adebimpe] from TV On The Radio and Dose One from this band Subtle here in the Bay Area. It’s like a vocal trio.”

“In the back of my mind also I’m trying to chip away at a new Fantomas record and Duane [Denison] the guitar player from Tomahawk has already started writing so there’s a lot of things brewing. Whichever one comes first – I don’t know. No promises!”

The Nevermen project has been in the works for several years. Adebimpe first broke news of the supergroup back in October 2008 when he told A.V. Club that he was “working on a project that I’m thinking will congeal toward the end of the year. It came from an idea that Adam had, to have the three of us just, basically, mess around vocally and see what comes of it.”

An August 2009 interview with Doseone on Pitchfork quoted the rapper saying that the Nevermen album “may be out this winter, but I am reserving the right to change that… We’ve taken our time and had all these amazing sessions together, and I think that it’s stuck. It’s really growing in a certain way that’s completely unique.”

Tunde, Doseone and Patton had worked on individual tracks together before recording Nevermen material. Patton worked with Doseone on the Peeping Tom project, while Tunde previously collaborated with Doseone on the Subtle song Deathful.