It appears that the classic incarnation of Faith No More is… no more. The great Bay Area alt-metal band started in the early ’80s and recorded their first two albums with singer Chuck Mosely, who passed away in 2017. When they kicked Mosely out of the band in 1989, they recruited Mike Patton, a fresh-faced 20-year-old who led the bugged-out thrash group Mr. Bungle. Faith No More went on to their greatest run of success with Patton as their frontman, recording classic albums like The Real Thing and Angel Dust. Faith No More broke up in 1998 and reunited in 2009, but they haven’t played a live show with Patton in nearly a decade. (Their most recent shows were actually a pair of reunions with Mosely in 2016, a year before he died.) Now, it’s looking less and less likely that Patton will rejoin the band anytime soon.
