Faith No More has been in the news quite a bit recently due to their announcing a new album. This will be the group's first record since 1997's Album of the Year and we'll finally hear a new studio song titled "Motherfucker" on November 28. Of course, you could always go watch the live versions of the songs if you really want to!
According to an interview Revolver did with Faith No More bassist Billy Gould, the group's new record will be everything insane we love about them and so, so much more.
"The first official single is 'Motherfucker,' an offbeat track driven by marching drums, spare piano, echoey string scrapes, and half-sung vocals layered over a euphoric chorus. The song will be released as a limited-edition 7-inch single for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 28. Another track, 'Cone of Shame,' is 'blues-based rock and roll,' according to the bassist, with some 'influences from Link Wray, Cramps, and a little black metal.' But Gould’s favorite song is still 'Matador.'
'Parts of it remind me of the first Siouxsie and the Banshees album,' he says. 'We used real pianos and that brings this organic quality to it to the music.'"
Surf rock black metal? Sounds good. Gould continued on to say that the album will be "a combination of what [they] don’t hear in the outside world and what [they] feel is lacking from other bands. And in the end, it will sound like Faith No More.” Another interesting bit from the interview is that frontman Mike Patton and keyboardist Roddy Bottum had to be convinced to do the album. Gould, drummer Mike Bordin, and guitarist Jon Hudson started work on new music without them and had to convince them to get onboard:
“There was a weird caginess they had where they didn’t want to just jump in the ring. I started to think we were just doing this for ourselves. Then little by little, they warmed up to it and decided to contribute more.” [..] “He would never let the conversation go there. It was very frustrating. I’d play him a song and say, ‘We’re working on this,’ and he’d say, ‘That sounds fantastic,’ and leave it at that. It was very hard to understand what was going on and if he was going to do it with us.”
The album is slated to drop in April 2015, which is noticeably and disappointingly not tomorrow. Damn!
