Faith No More Reunite

Faith No More have reunited—for real this time, apparently. After a series of ill-omened interviews, Mike Patton and the band have lined up four stadium shows Down Under with System of a Down, their first live dates since 2016. Check out the full itinerary below.Faith No More have been reliably unpredictable since Patton joined as the permanent singer in 1988, launching an erratic and sometimes scandalous classic era that lasted more or less until their first split in 1998. A reunion tour and greatest-hits LP followed in 2009, and the band played on and off for the next decade, releasing their first album in 18 years, Sol Invictus, in 2015, and regrouping with former singer Chuck Mosley in 2016, a year before his death.The rockers were set to reunite again in 2020 but canceled due to the pandemic; they rescheduled dates for 2021, but scrapped those, with Patton citing unspecified mental health problems. A second hiatus followed, during which Patton was diagnosed with agoraphobia and started drinking heavily. He reunited his grindcore outfit Dead Cross for an album, made a song for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game, and continued to tour with his enduring high-school band Mr...