Music

September, 1992

Charles M. YoungWith roots in the San Francisco underground as a "hippie hate" band that deliberately played bad music to provoke audiences, Faith No More brought lots of promising attitude to its major-label debut in 1989. MTV picked up the video Epic shortly thereafter, and suddenly the group was atop a new wave of smart metal bands that combined literacy with crunch. On its follow-up, Angel Dust (Reprise/Slash), Faith can't decide whether it wants to sound like the Mothers of Invent...

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