Faith No More

One of alternative metal's most unpredictable and compelling acts, Faith No More built a reputation on music that refuses to sit still. Blending metal, funk, hip-hop, and art rock into something genuinely difficult to categorise, they became a benchmark for genre-bending ambition during their initial run and again when they reunited after a lengthy hiatus.

Their catalog moves between crushing heaviness and theatrical melodic passages, held together by a confrontational approach to songwriting that influenced a generation of bands working across metal and alternative rock. The tension between aggression and melody is central to what they do, and it gives their music an edge that has kept it sounding vital decades on.