Faith No More

Genres:	Heavy Metal • Music Videos & Concerts • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	rock • alternative rock • alternative • metal • mike patton • alternative metal • hard rock • experimental • funk metal
Decades Active:	1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Discography • Discography • Fan Page • MySpace • Wikipedia • YouTube

Biography

Formed in San Francisco, California, USA in 1980, Faith No More, titled after a greyhound on which the members had placed a bet, were among the first outfits to experiment with the fusion of funk, thrash and hardcore styles that effectively became a new musical subgenre. The band initially comprised Jim Martin (21 July 1961, Oakland, California, USA; guitar, ex-Vicious Hatred), Roddy Bottum (b. 1 July 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA; keyboards), Bill Gould (b. 24 April 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA; bass), Mike Bordin (b. 27 November 1962, San Francisco, California, USA; drums) and Chuck Mosley (vocals). Bottum had attended the same school as Gould, while Bordin was recruited from his course in tribal rhythm at Berkeley University. Gould had met Mosley on the Los Angeles club circuit in 1980, while Martin had been recommended by Metallica’s Cliff Burton.

This line-up recorded a low-budget, self-titled debut on the independent...

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