Mr. Bungle are too accessible to simply be called avant garde I think. Avant garde rock tends to be something that can't be categorized with anything else, but it's also something that dosen't share any obvious influences from other genres and sounds completely alien. You can make 2 minute songs using 3 chords and it can be avant garde. That's obviously not prog.
Progressive rock is music that's unusual but also complex and whimsical (whimsical also means pretentious in some circles) and blends other genres like a juice mixer, and it still has to resemble rock music to some extent. It's a super diverse category, it's hard to compare bands like Genesis and ELP to bands like Hawkwind and Roxy Music. But I think Mr. Bungle easly falls into the prog category rather than avant garde.
Still that's only my opinion, there are some bands I think are definite placements in the list and there will be no way to change my mind, Mr. Bungle is not one of those bands and I'll remove them from the list if a strong enough argument is made. But so far I don't think you've done that, especially when it seems that you've only heard their first album.
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