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Faith No More's Mike Bordin Talks Band's First New Album In 18 Years (A Top Story)



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On Thursday Faith No More's Mike Bordin Talks Band's First New Album In 18 Years was a top story. Here is the recap: (Radio.com) When the news came earlier this year that Faith No More would release a new album, fans reacted with not just excitement but genuine shock. It has, after all, been 18 years since the band's previous release, 1997's Album of the Year.

On Tuesday (May 19) that news became reality. Sol Invictus, the group's seventh studio album, is finally out and available. That shocked reaction to this new album is also the same fans had to the band's 2009 reunion tour. Faith No More, and especially their frontman Mike Patton, have always been unsentimental. But while the tour appeared to be a one-off, the recording of an album seems a more definitive statement that the group has returned to active duty.

As drummer Mike Bordin told us in a recent interview, Patton was, in fact, a holdout until he heard the music that his bandmates had been working on. Earnest and super-polite, Bordin remembers details of shows from decades ago ("You were at the Ritz show in 1989? I remember that guy hanging from the ceiling at that show!") and is almost disarmingly friendly. During our interview, he actually said this sentence: "Generally, most of the people who I meet, I find I like!" How many people in any walk of life, much less rock music, would say that?

As the planned 20-minute interview extended to an hour, we discussed not only Faith No More but also Bordin's stint in Ozzy Osbourne's band (which included a daunting tour as the drummer for Black Sabbath) and that time he filled in for Korn's drummer. It's interesting to note, too, that while many of his peers from the late '80s/early '90s alt-rock scene are dismissive of the nu-metal that followed, Bordin speaks of it with no judgement (though did point out that he'd never heard Korn's music before being invited to play for them).

Radio.com: I have to say, I was shocked when I heard you guys were going to do a new album. I didn't think that that would ever happen, even after the reunion tour.

Mike Bordin: I didn't, either. I agree with you. When we decided to do some shows, we wanted to see how it felt, to just be around each other and play music together, and we had no idea if we would even like doing that. I'm not coloring this in any way, I'm just answering honestly. We had no expectation, we didn't know what it was going to be like. After about 50 shows we felt like, it feels great, but we don't want to do this for too long if we're not going to create something new, or have something new to say. So we just kind of started quietly playing together.

People would always ask, 'When are you going to do Faith No More again?" I would say, "Dude, it will never happen, forget it." But when we got back together and started playing, it felt good and it was exciting. It's been 2-1/2 years of work on this new music, and I really like it and I'm excited for people to hear it. Read the full interview - here.

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