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Faith No More
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Faith No More is an American rock group from San Francisco. The foundations were laid around 1979, when the drummer Mike Bordin, the bassist Billy Gould and others played under names such as Sharp Young Men and Faith. No Man. After Bordin, Gould and the keyboard player Roddy Bottum left that group, they continued as Faith No More. With the singer Chuck Mosley and the guitarist Jim Martin, the albums We Care a Lot (1985) and Introduce Yourself (1987) appeared.
Music and breakthrough
In 1988 the singer Mike Patton joined the band. With him Faith No More broke through with The Real Thing in 1989. The single Epic reached the American top ten and received heavy airplay on MTV. Angel Dust (1992), King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime (1995) and Album of the Year (1997) followed. In 1998 the group stopped, in 2009 it came back, and in 2015 Sol Invictus appeared.
Influence
The music combines funk, metal, hip hop, pop melodies and progressive rock. Patton switches effortlessly from rap to singing, and the band dared to be experimental even on a major label, especially on Angel Dust. Faith No More is regarded as a forerunner of the funk rock and alternative metal of the 1990s. In a single song, Epic shows how rap, funk and guitar rock can come together.
Listening
Epic · Faith No More, 1989Apple Music ↗