In the age of ’90s nostalgia, Faith No More is a clenched fist.
The influential Bay Area alt-rock band dropped a new single today called “Superhero”, and it’s more than just the latest off upcoming record Sol Invictus (out May 19 via Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings). It’s pretty much what Faith No More fans have been expecting since the late-’90s.
For lack of a better word, “Superhero” is an… epic tune. It’s got pieces of the band’s recognizable past mixed up in the blender — the carnival spazz of Angel Dust, the riffage of King For A Day…, and even some of the uneven weirdness of the Chuck Mosley-era up in there — and it succeeds where first Sol Invictus single “Motherfucker” fell rather flat.
Listen to “Superhero” below, and peep the band’s nearly all-sold-out dates below. Faith No More bring their ruckus to Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on May 11. Do617 has a giveaway.
Faith No More tour dates:
March 3 Auckland, New Zealand WestFest
April 15 Vancouver, BC PNE Forum
April 16 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater
April 17 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium
April 19 San Francisco, CA Warfield
April 20 San Francisco, CA Warfield
April 22 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
April 23 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
April 24 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
April 25 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
May 7 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall
May 8 Detroit, MI The Fillmore
May 9 Toronto, ON Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
May 11 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
May 13 New York, NY Webster Hall
May 14 New York, NY Webster Hall
May 15 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
May 29 Nurburgring, Germany Grune Holle Festival
May 31 Munich, Germany Rockavaria Festival
June 2 Milan, Italy Sonisphere
June 4 Vienna, Austria Vienna Rocks Festival
June 5 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Rock For People Festival
June 6 Berlin, Germany Zitadelle Spandau
June 8 Krakow, Poland Tauron Arena
June 12 Landgraaf, Netherlands Pinkpop Festival
June 13 Donington, UK Download Festival
June 20 Clisson, France Hellfest
June 21 Dessel, Belgium Graspop Festival
June 23 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle Hamburg
June 24 – 27 Seinajoki, Finland Provinssi
June 25 – 27 Norrkoping, Sweden Bravalla Festival
June 28 Odense, Denmark Tinderbox
August 7 – 9 Montreal, QC Heavy Montreal
September 24 – 27 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rock in Rio
