In with the old: What makes Faith No More such a great band
Jul 30, 2016 06:36 PM IST
Like many great bands, Faith No More is often underrated and its frontman Mike Patton not as well-known as he ought to be
I can’t pinpoint exactly why I reached out for Faith No More’s Live in Germany album last week. Faith No More’s music is supposed to be hard, heavy and is usually classified as alternative metal, not a genre that I naturally precipitate towards. But I did. Maybe it was after reading about the incredibly stunning vocal range of the band’s frontman Mike Patton — he is gifted with a six-octave vocal range; maybe I’d had an unsettling few weeks of travel, was getting used to an unfamiliar new routine, and had just taken a devil-may-care dive into uncharted waters; or maybe it was just a classic eff-you kind of moment — of the what-the-heck-let’s-listen-to-something loud sort.
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