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“He’s gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us”: Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin doesn’t see estranged singer Mike Patton rejoining the band any time soon

Don’t hold your breath for a Faith No More reunion

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How power couple Paula and Dave Lombardo traded thrash metal for sultry alternative: "Venamoris is a rebirth."

Venamoris' second album To Cross Or To Burn explores the darker side of the human psyche

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"While I survived the 90s, not all of me did." Alice In Chains icon Jerry Cantrell on riffs, extreme metal and the best rock record to come from Seattle

Ever wondered what extreme metal bands Alice In Chains jammed to? Jerry Cantrell has the answer

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“A ferociously experimental trip into the outer limits of rock, jazz, soundtrack music, cartoon horror and Zappa-like chaos”: The prog credentials of Mr. Bungle’s Disco Volante

Bizarre instrumentation and avant-garde construction made Mike Patton and co’s second album a curveball of epic proportions

Louder

"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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“People want to get onstage and stagedive, but if you run into me, you’re not coming back. There’s a Travis Bean-shaped dent in someone’s head”: Duane Denison on the inspired return of the Jesus Lizard – and that time he tried to sell Steve Howe a guitar

Chaotic, unpredictable, brilliant, the Jesus Lizard finally recorded their post-reunion album and it does not disappoint. Denison checks in to tell us how it came together and where it stands in the band's history

Guitar World

“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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“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

Guitar World

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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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

Louder

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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