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Faith No More are on “semi-permanent hiatus”, says keyboardist

The alt-metal pioneers haven’t performed together since 2016

Metal Hammer

“I can just make music I like and it’ll **** off people I don’t like”: Zeal & Ardor on why metal gatekeeping is “funny” – plus Björk, Anthony Fantano, Mayhem and more

We tried to interview Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux about gatekeeping. We ended up discussing Mayhem, Björk, Anthony Fantano and Mike Patton instead.

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“Mr. Bungle tried to play this song in the '90s and we scrapped it because we sucked at it”: Wolfgang Van Halen helps Mr. Bungle rip through a cover of Van Halen’s “most metal song”

WVH joined the avant-garde metal ensemble for a raucous rendition of the heavy Van Halen cut

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Watch Mr Bungle cover Van Halen's Loss of Control – with guest shredding from Wolfgang Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen joins Mr Bungle for Van Halen cover at Graspop festival in Belgium

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“It was an intense process being in this band. By the end, everyone was, like, ‘I don’t need to see you again, ever’”: the rise, fall and spectacular resurrection of Faith No More

How Faith No More’s brilliant 2015 album Sol Invictus completed the most unlikely comeback of the 21st century

Metal Hammer

If you think AI technology is all fun and games, you clearly haven't seen the new 'Mike Patton as Britney Spears' Toxic video

Mike Patton is one of rock's most brilliantly versatile vocalists, but you've never seen him like this before, and will never want to again

Metal Hammer

10 heavy metal supergroups that actually turned out super

Murderdolls, Audioslave and Roadrunner United have proven that the supergroup can sometimes yield amazing results

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"We’d build our own pyro - there was a lot of smoke and chaos": Dave Lombardo talks Cuban heritage, befriending Mike Patton and why Slayer were the greatest thrash metal band

One of thrash metal's architects, Dave Lombardo recounts a life in music from Slayer to Dead Cross, Testament to Empire State Bastard

Metal Hammer

10 amazing metal albums that are only one song long

These masterpieces by Sleep, Insomnium and Meshuggah only needed one standalone track to make a lifelong impression

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Biffy Clyro, blast-beats and Brexit: how Simon Neil and Mike Vennart made one of the extreme metal albums of the year with Empire State Bastard

Far-right trolls and a shared love for experimental, extreme music helped unite Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil and Mike Vennart in Empire State Bastard

Metal Hammer

“A subversive and musically schizophrenic infiltration of mainstream America”: Faith No More’s The Real Thing was more prog than many realised

Notoriously dysfunctional band’s 1989 album – their first with Mike Patton – made them much more than a cult rock oddity

Louder

10 hilarious metal covers of classic cartoon theme tunes

From Corey Taylor to Mike Patton, here are some absolute bangers to make the school run that little more bearable

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Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil reveals his initial aim for grindcore side project Empire State Bastard: "No melodies, just f***ing mayhem"

Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil opens up on the thinking behind Empire State Bastard

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10 raging metal covers of classic 80s aggro-punk songs

The Exploited, Discharge, GBH and more get the covers treatment from Slayer and Ice-T, Mr Bungle, Napalm Death and Metallica

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Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more

Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories

The Guardian - UK

Mike Patton on the return of Dead Cross: ‘This record was forged through Covid, cancer and alcoholism’

The anti-rock star talks about the anarchic thrash of his new album, playing with his other bands Faith No More and Mr Bungle, and how the pandemic drove him to drink

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