Awaited return ... and very successful!

Faith No More. The metal leading group in the 90s, an innovative combo, visionary, surprising that broke up in 1998 after delivering a new album, their sixth, simply titled "Album Of The Year".
In 2009, the group reformed for a series of concerts and festivals. We begin to believe in a new album that is not coming. Disappointment. Faith No More does not seem to act on this reformation, the statements of the members are quite ambiguous, it believes ny more. Between 2012 and 2014, this is radio silence. Then the hope is reborn when the band played two new songs on stage July 4, 2014, opening for Black Sabbath. Following this concert, Faith No More announced that the process of creativity is revived and quun new album will be released in 2015.

There is! The group resumes exactly where it left off, with the same line-up as "Album Of The Year" (1997), namely Mike Bordin on drums, Billy Gould on bass (both founding members), Roddy Bottum on keyboards, Mike Patton on vocals and guitar Jon Hudson, who registered it didnt last disc with the group. I would have liked a course for Jim Martin (who officiated on the two jewels of the group, "The Real Thing" (1989) and "Angel Dust" (1992) but hey, you can not have everything ... and apparently the dispute between the protagonists was (and still is?) too seriously.

This is not without some excitement that jentame tuned the new album, eighteen years after the release of their latest album. Jai loved Faith No More in the 90s and the risk is necessarily BE disappointed, though i trust in their ability to deal fairly captivating pieces.
Small, quiet piano, drums in jazz way bearings, Mike sings quietly, the refrain is hardly more energetic album starts very simply by the title track. A small appetizer signed Faith No More in style all its own, before the real fun begins. And they start with the following title, "Superhero". The big bass Billy Gould is at the forefront, Patton begins to let go the horses with wild shouts from the beginning of the title, extravagant battery plans Mister Bordin (Do not wait here a battery that goes boom boom boom boom) and always this quiet little piano that brings the next question to the composition while others send the sauce. The guitar, which was never the element main music group but part of a whole, complete and gratified us ALL OPERATING still a solo. I found right there my Faith No More, than previous albums. This title even remember the album iconic "Angel Dust". It starts so well.
Without going into the detail of each title, complicated thing with Faith No More, know that the group has kept its potential to get us out of the pieces that are anything but linear. The program includes some well-crazy songs like "Rise Of The Fall" or "Separation Anxiety". This is terrible, it contains a Mike Patton pulls all the play. It's downright reassured, he has lost none of which made its particularity there twenty years, it is on top from start to end of this album! He began also to rap on the verses of Mo **** er, which reminds us (if necessary) that this group was one of the precursors in the mixture of genres.
Other pieces calmer appearance at the beginning may well be barred final ("Sunny Side Up", "Black Friday"). With Faith No More, you always expect the unexpected! And finally the visit of this "Sol Invictus", you will pass by the way in which the ramp is crescendo ("Matador" excellent piece!) And end up calmly, as it started, with compo remains pretty cool of beginning to end ("From The Dead").
In thirty-nine minutes (that this is short!), Faith No More takes us round the property. As usual, the Americans give us a varied album, moods change, sometimes western ("Rise Of The Fall", "Cone Of Shame"), an oriental strand ("Superhero") and piano bar (the title track) . I think (but perhaps this is because of its duration) that "Sol Invictus" generally offers less fancy than previous albums, less crazy, too, one feels a wiser group (probably this is the wisdom of the age).

A Faith No More album sapprivoise not totally after three plays, especially streaming, whose time jai willing to write this column. I still have to discover subtleties, for sure. However, I can already say that the Americans signed their back with a very good album. I expected no less from them, it's true, but it's still reassuring to have the evidence tuned!
Those who bought this group must obtain the "Sol Invictus", it seems mandatory. Those who do not know their interest to find out very quickly, certainly before their performance at Hellfest, which promises necessarily as one of the highlights of the 2015 edition! You have been warned.
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