It’s weird how bandnames cluster around certain letters of the alphabet. De and E were lousy with bands I like and so will M & S be, but bands with a name starting with “F”? Though the BNR Metal Pages list eightytwo I could only think of one that I actually knew and liked. You know this one and you know this song, as it was inescapable back in the early nineties:
Faith No More – Epic
I always thought poor old Faith No More were a victim of the rise of grunge. Like quite a few bands from around that time they were busy mixing up metal with rap with hardcore punk and along came the sullen Nirvana boys with what was basically just more mopey guitar based rock and that was the end of that.
Branko Collin
April 26, 2010 at 3:49 pmSaw them open for Guns ‘n’ Roses at the Kuip somewhere in the early nineties. Don’t remember much about them. At the time they had just had a hit with Easy.
cian
May 1, 2010 at 12:20 pmWasn’t Rap metal huge 5-10 years ago in the states?
And I think Faith no More’s demise had more to do with Mike Patton losing interest. They were a bit too mainstream for him I guess?
Martin Wisse
May 2, 2010 at 3:29 pmNu-metal you mean? That was huge indeed, but not that dissimilar from what bands like Faith No More or Biohazard were doing ten years before that.
FNM disintegreted because its members all had side projects and such yes, but it did seem at one point they would become genuinely big, rather than just succesful. But perhaps that’s just me.