Faith No More‘s promo push for Sol Invictus continues today with two major interviews.
The first with Metal Hammer entitled “Faith No More: rebirth of the Real Thing” is arguably the most revealing and high-profile so far. In the interview on the subscription Team Rock site and presumably also in the latest issue of Metal Hammer, Bill Gould speaks extensively about the new record.
He elaborates on the dark theme of the record and the creative tensions within the band and a little on the band’s music per se: ““Sure, it sounds like us at our age,” shrugs Billy. “I can speak in colours. There’s a touch of colour from the first album, a little Angel Dust, a little King For A Day… on there, and some stuff we’ve never done before. We have a song that’s like a blues song, which we’ve never done before! It’s just stuff that excites us.”
Meanwhile, Roddy Bottum has given an interview to the Time Out section of the New Zealand Herald.
Roddy also spoke about the sound of the record: “The consensus among the band is it sounds like the way that we started. It has some really sombre tunes, some really high points of energy, lots of peaks and valleys, some lyrics that I’m really fond of, and lots of piano.”
The interview also had some interesting news on the band tensions and also the tantalising prospect that there will be 15 unreleased songs: “Tensions arose when it came time to whittle down their 25 songs to a more manageable 10 for the album. “We wrote a lot of songs, and a lot of songs never made it on the record, a lot of decisions were made and they’re really painful to make. A lot of people had songs they wanted on the record that didn’t make it on the record.”
can someone upload the entire metal hammer interview….sucks you have to sign up to read it
The vinyl only €15 inc shipping ? This sounds cheap ? Anyone else ?
Unfortunately in this day of digital downloads, B-Sides have fallen by the wayside. Hopefully the 15-or-so excluded songs (assuming that isn’t an exaggeration!) find their way to us somehow.
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Especially pleasing to hear that there were tensions regarding which songs to release. When you think about the seagull song (or whatever the f*** it’s called) seems the whole band were not really down with it going public, but if members wanted to put tracks on an album, that’s a pretty good endorsement for them seeing the light of day somewhere. Maybe the soundtrack for the Bill and Ted 3 soundtrack.
wow, 15 more songs … please release them also.
So here’s the solution…. Release 10 more after the tour!!! Haha