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“The title was a kind of code word because the song was a preposterous, grandiose thing. Patton wrote the words a week after he joined the band”: The groundbreaking hit that saved Faith No More’s career – and saved the life of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor

The enigmatic lyrics continually allude to “it” – while never quite articulating what “it” actually is

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"It was an intense place to be for a gay man in that world." Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on hair metal

Queer icon Roddy Bottom of Faith No More recalls the "ugly" side of hair metal

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"I was being bombarded with Madonna's image on TV." How a beloved rock band took aim at a pop megastar, sampled Simon & Garfunkel and ushered in a genre-mashing masterpiece with a 90s classic

This Faith No More song is so catchy, Disturbed covered it on two separate occasions

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“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”

How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’

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“It feels good to have a thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the amount of middle fingers go up when we go into it is amazing”: The alt-rock superstars who trolled their fans with a 70s easy listening cover – and scored a huge hit with it

Faith No More had already covered War Pigs

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What are your new year’s reading resolutions? 6 dedicated readers share theirs

When we think about new year’s resolutions, we often think about changing our habits or new setting goals around food, exercise and work. But why not take our reading seriously too?

The Conversation

"We were stupid kids, just trying to survive, with this really weird music that we were so stubborn about." How five chaos-addicted Californian misfits helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with their fabulously freaky debut record

Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday

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"I don’t think so. No." Roddy Bottum on whether he'd play with Faith No More again

Keyboard player Roddy Bottum appears to put the final nail in Faith No More's coffin

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“We opened with it and the crowd broke through the barrier. We had to stop midway because people were getting hurt”: The game-changing late 80s single that put an obscure band from San Francisco on the map and helped ignite the alt rock explosion

New singer, new sound, the start of a whole new era

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"We’re in a really weird spot, and I can’t really tell you what’s going on. I don’t know myself." Faith No More's Bill Gould has no clue as to his band's current status, and it seems like no-one else does either

Faith No More haven't played live since 2015 and co-founder Bill Gould admits that he's as clueless as anyone else as to whether the band have a future

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“They asked Chris Cornell – they needed an exceptional singer”: How Faith No More’s landmark alt-metal masterpiece The Real Thing could have been very different

Charismatic new singer, groundbreaking new sound, a rap-metal classic in the making – this is how Faith No More’s The Real Thing helped usher in the alt-rock decade

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

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

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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

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12 songs that brought horniness back to heavy metal (without the cringe)

From Sleep Token and Scene Queen to Ghost, Halestorm and Type O Negative - these are the bands who brought some sex positivity back to metal

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Queer sounds: our writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ songs

For Pride month, Guardian writers have singled out their favourite LGBTQ+ songs, from Pet Shop Boys to Frank Ocean

Louder

These are the best alt. rock songs you'll hear this week, featuring Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, The Hives and more

Here are all the finest alt. rock songs to drop this week: vote here for your favourite

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