Catching Up With… Mike Bordin Faith No More has always followed its own rules. So if the band wants to wait until it’s half a decade into its “comeback” to finally release a new recording, you can bet there’s a good reason for it. And that said album will melt your face off. “Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” Hunter S. Thompson describes his drug-guzzling attorney in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas thusly—though it’s also a characterization eerily befitting of the hard-rock alchemists Faith No More, who expired after crafting some of the most unconventional and extraordinary major-label music of the ’90s. Thankfully, the inimitable Bay Area quintet proved to be only mostly dead, having recently completed an improbable Lazarus act with the arrival of Sol Invictus—its first new record in nearly two decades. Boasting the confidence and maturity of a band in middle age—without sacrificing […]

October 2015 Issue