Thirty oje years ago we were awaiting the arrival of the new Faith No More record King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime - several nervous ideas were pulsating around our brain boxes. Would it measure up against it's masterpiece of a predecessor Angel Dust ? How would it work out without the grinding axe work of big sick and ugly guitarist Jim Martin ? And how would it sound without Matt Wallace behind the mixing desk? At 9 am on February 28th 1995 the very first single relea

On February 24th 1994 Castle Communications released the The Real Story , a detailed history of Faith No More up until the end of 1993 written by Steffan Chirazi . The Real Story was Steffan’s first published book and the first official chronicle of FNM. It stands today as one of only two books written with the help of the band - Small Victories by Adrian Harte is the second. Steffan’s career in journalism began at age 15 when he interviewed the legendary Motorhead front

Ross Halfin In February 2015 Faith No More began their tour of Sol Invictus in Tokyo before moving swiftly to Australia for four dates on the Soundwave XV tour. Saturday 21 | Bonython Park | Adelaide Across The Ocean - Andrew Stace Sunday 22 | Royal Melbourne Showgrounds | Melbourne Australian Musician A flower arrangement adorned the front of the Faith No More’s stage. On stage, white curtains flowed in the breeze as Patton and co casually strolled onto a scene resembling

Faith No More 's smash single from ' The Real Thing' was released thirty six years ago on January 29th 1990 "Mean, Vicious, chunky and Funky, Faith No More continue to break barriers with their brain-scrambling amalgamation of seemingly counteracting styles. Rap with Metal? No problem mate. Funk with Hardcore overtones? Faith No More have it in hand. Hell, there's even a classical piano break at the end! FNM are the band to take Hard Rock into the '90s." - RIP Magazine 199

On January 28th 1993 Faith No More released their home video compilation, Video Croissant. Kerrang! | kkkkk | December 1992 | Chris Watts JUST WHEN you thought it was impossible to buy anything else from Faith No More Ltd, the Christmas Cobbler turns up, late, but in good spirits. Yet more stuff. Yet more pop dollars to spend.Fund the cause and keep everybody smiling. They spoil you. Yes, they really do. 'Video Croissant' is basically a 10-track compilation of Faith No More

To celebrate Mike Patton 's 58th birthday we are focusing on one particularly significant year in his life. Mike Patton ’s career in 1991 marked a pivotal moment in alternative music. His work during this year extended far beyond the Faith No More 's rising fame. His involvement with Mr. Bungle and collaborations with Naked City showcased his versatility and fearless approach to music. This article explores how 1991 shaped Mike Patton’s artistic identity and set the stage f

On January 22 1988 Faith No More hit the United Kingdom live scene for the first time. The venue was Dingwalls in Camden, London. It was in fact the first time FNM played outside of the United States and Canada. The show was the first date of a European tour that ended in July of that year, Chuck Mosley parted ways with FNM shorty after the tour ended. Tony Mottram Sounds Magazine | 23.01.1988 SOMETHING ABOUT all this reminds me of the early Southern Death Cult gigs. Perhap

Faith No More performed at the second Brazilian festival Rock In Rio thirty five years ago on January 20th 1991. Photo Ross Halfin By the end of 1990 FNM's music was achieving huge success with platinum album sales and headlining tours. However it was their performance in Rio de Janeiro which truly caught the larger world's attention. In 1985 headliners such as Queen, AC/DC and Yes had prompted the erection of The City of Rock stadium to house the one million people who att

Faith No More released their debut single We Care A Lot on January 18th 1988. With it's thwacking drums , bass and heavy guitars. Faith No More's debut single, released in 1988, is funk metal with added punk sensibilities -both in the raw, untutored vocals of Chuck Mosley, the manic singer later replaced by Mike Patton, and in its gloatingly non-PC lyrics. A seminal alternative rock song, We Care A Lot still sounds electrifying. - Metal Hammer According to Q magazine when

On January 12th 1998 Faith No More released Stripsearch , the third single from Album Of The Year . Kerrang | May 1997 'Stripsearch' is a supremely atmospheric chunk ol sci-fi funk that succeeds despite the lack of any discernible chorus because it sounds just fantastic. Young Gods producer Roli Mosimann has worked his usual magic here, 'Album Of The Year' sounding so good that even if there wasn't a sniff of a decent melody anywhere (which is always a risk with Faith No More

On December 29th 1992 Faith No More released their cover of the 1977 Commodores song Easy . The song is to this day their most successful selling single, however amongst fans it is possibly their most controversial. "It feels really good to have couple of thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the number of middle fingers go up when we went into 'Easy' was amazing." - Bill Gould | Billboard | 1993 The song aided them in reaching their highest UK chart position of num

On December 1st 1997 Faith No More released their collaboration single with Sparks , This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us . ‘They found out that we're fans of theirs, and have asked us to appear on their next album. That's just f**king amazing. Sparks were the first really campy operatic-type band. I always thought Queen ripped them off.’ -  Bill Gould 1997  The original version of the song was featured on the 1974 album Kimono In My House and was the lead single

The party to celebrate the release of Faith No More 's debut album was on November 30th 1985. We consider this to be the original release date for We Care A Lot. Here is an our A to Z of We Care A Lot on it's 40th anniversary. Enjoy. A IS FOR As The Worm Turns Track eight on the record has remained a fan favourite throughout the band's career. As The Worm Turns was reclaimed live by Mike Patton during The Real Thing tour and eventually re-recorded as a b-side in 1992. As

Photo by Ross Halfin A IS FOR… Angelo Moore Mike Bordin played drums on Sacrifice , the second album by Fishbone singer's side project Brand New Step , released in 2013. B IS FOR… Cliff Burton In 1975 impressionable thirteen year old Castro Valley High School classmates Mike and Cliff Burton became friends. They hung out listening to Black Sabbath and The Sex Pistols . This adolescent comradeship led to the pair taking up the instruments that would later define their profe

Faith No More were between 21 and 25 years of age in 1984 when they wrote and recorded their debut album We Care A Lot. As part of our 40 years celebration of this record we are reposting photographs of the band for this early period taken by Joan Osato . In the early eighties Joan was Roddy Bottum 's roommate and captured some fantastic shots of Roddy, Chuck, Mike, Jim and Billy - her photos featured on the cover of We Care A Lot. Joan has kindly allowed us to share these

On November 4th 1988 Faith No More played at the IBeam in their hometown of San Francisco. This was their first live performance with Chuck Mosley 's replacement Mike Patton fronting the band. Photo : Mark Weiss Steffan Chirazi , who had been championing FNM in the music press since 1987 and who had written the band's only magazine feature in Kerrang!, wrote this preview. FAITH NO MORE - I Beam SF. Your chance to check out the new version of the SF funk/punk/metal/rap kingp

On October 30th 1989 Faith No More released From Out Of Nowhere , their third official single. It was the first single released from the acclaimed album The Real Thing and the first to feature Mike Patton on vocals. 'Without a doubt this kicks everything, apart from Wreck, into perspective. Faith No More are climbing up to the heady heights of the music biz and if they pause to look behind it's only to stick a derisive two fingers up at the struggling competition. If you h

Faith No More 's version of the  Bee Gees  song  I Started A Joke  was released on October 26th 1998. The song first appeared on the B-side of the limited edition single release of  Digging The Grave  in 1995 and on a bonus CD available with the Australian version of  King For A Day Fool For A Lifetime  also in 1995.  It was recorded along with three more cover versions of other songs in  Bill Gould 's home studio and produced by Gould and  Dean Menta . These songs were the o

On October 20th 2015 Faith No More released their first video in 17 years for the song Sunny Side Up . Sunny Side up was the third single released from Faith No More's Sol Invictus . The song only saw a promo CD release but the band produced a video which Rolling Stone described as, "Faith No More prove sex, drugs and rock and roll are for the geriatrics as much as the kid". It was was their video first in 17 years, the last being for Stripsearch in 1998 - Warner Bros post

I am not sure what I expected before sitting down with The Royal We . Reading the Substack tales from Roddy Bottum were indeed a clue. However, as a feverish Faith No More fan starved of any word from the band for sometime now I hoped for a history of my favourite artists from their perspective. It’s not exactly what I got, and knowing my favourite keyboardist like I do, I was actually quite foolish to hope for it. The Royal We is a weird and wonderful journey, it is the di