Faith No More Are Back: How A Decade Of Doubt, Silence And Heartbreak Finally Ended

For a while, it felt like Faith No More had simply... disappeared.

Not with an announcement. Not with a farewell tour. Not even with a definitive breakup. They just stopped.

One cancelled tour became another. Interviews hinted at irreparable fractures. Years passed without a single show. Every rumour was analysed. Every photo dissected. Every anniversary celebrated by fans wondering if it would ever mean anything again.

Eventually, even the most optimistic supporters began to accept the unthinkable.

Maybe this was really the end.

But Faith No More have never been a band that follows the expected script.

The Last Time

It's now ten years since Faith No More last stood on a stage together.

On August 20, 2016, the band reunited with original vocalist Chuck Mosley at Los Angeles' legendary Troubadour to celebrate the release of the We Care A Lot deluxe edition. It would become the final Faith No More performance anyone would see.

The last concert with Mike Patton had actually come almost a year earlier, at Sacramento's Aftershock Festival on October 25, 2015.

Nobody knew it then.

Nobody imagined the silence that would follow.

A Lost Decade

The years that followed brought far more than anyone expected.

In 2017, Faith No More lost Chuck Mosley, whose death after a long battle with addiction devastated fans and former bandmates alike.

Then came 2020.

The pandemic didn't just shut down live music - wiped out Faith No More's long-awaited comeback. Tours across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States were postponed before eventually disappearing altogether.

What had promised to be one of alternative music's biggest returns became another chapter in the band's growing mythology.

Life Beyond Faith No More

The band may have stopped, but its members never did.

Bill Gould toured with MC50, released another Talking Book album, produced the acclaimed documentary RocKabul and even launched his own rakija company, Yebiga.

Roddy Bottum remained as creatively restless as ever, writing an opera before releasing music and playing shows with Hifiklub, Man On Man, Nastie Band, Crickets and Imperial Teen. He also appeared in the film Tyrel and, in 2025, published his deeply personal memoir, The Royal We.

Mike Bordin recorded with Jerry Cantrell and Joe Holmes before taking part in one of heavy music's most emotional nights, joining fellow musicians at Birmingham's Back To The Beginning celebration honouring Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath.

Then there was Mike Patton.

As always, Patton seemed incapable of standing still.

Albums with Mr. Bungle. Tomahawk. Dead Cross. Kaada. Jean-Claude Vannier. Tetema. Nevermen. Collaborations with The Avett Brothers and Jenny Beth. Film scores. Guest appearances. Endless tours. One of the busiest and most unpredictable careers in modern music somehow became even busier.

Faith No More may have been silent.

Its members certainly weren't.

So... Were They Finished?

For years, nobody seemed willing to answer the question directly.

The band's official camp kept celebrating classic albums and releasing merchandise, often alongside the team at FNM Followers, but there was never any indication another show was coming.

Then came the interviews.

Speaking to Dean Delray, Bordin said Patton had "gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows."

Roddy described Faith No More as being on a "semi-permanent hiatus" and frequently spoke about the band in the past tense.

Then Patton himself delivered perhaps the most sobering comment of all.

Asked by Kyle Meredith whether the band's final tour now felt like it had offered "closure", Patton quietly admitted:

"I didn't really think so at the time, but, yeah, maybe. And I think that we all kind of felt it, but it was unspoken."

For many fans, that was it.

The story was over.

Then Everything Changed

Almost overnight, the mood shifted.

Patton, Bordin and Bottum were spotted laughing together backstage at two separate AVTT/PTTN shows.

It wasn't an announcement.

But it was enough.

Then came June 16.

Faith No More revealed a partnership with South American touring powerhouse 30e.

Soon afterwards, Bill told Rock Talk's Jadranka Jankovic Nesic exactly what fans had been waiting years to hear.

"Yeah, we're gonna do it. We're gonna play."

The rumours exploded.

By the end of July, giant billboards bearing Faith No More's unmistakable star logo began appearing across Australia.

No explanation.

No dates.

Just a symbol that instantly reignited hope.

The Wait Is Finally Over

Then, at exactly 7:00am Australian time on July 27, it happened.

Faith No More and System Of A Down officially announced four massive stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand for January and February 2027.

After ten years away, Faith No More were finally back.

22 January - Accor Stadium, Sydney

27 January - Marvel Stadium, Melbourne

1 February - Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

7 February - HNRY Stadium, Wellington

For ten years, Faith No More's future lived somewhere between rumour and resignation.

Fans argued over interviews, analysed every public appearance and tried to read meaning into silence.

Now, none of that matters. 

After a decade of heartbreak, cancelled tours, mixed messages and endless uncertainty, one of alternative music's most influential bands is returning to the stage.

Sometimes, the longest waits really do have the biggest pay-off.