Faith No More fans may have to wait even longer to see or hear from the band, as they have not performed a proper show in nine years. Although the group is not officially disbanded, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Roddy Bottum provided an update on their status in a recent Substack post, describing the band as being on a “semi-permanent hiatus.”
“I’ve made a life for myself making music. With Faith No More and then Imperial Teen. I live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN and two awesome friends in a band called CRICKETS and also sometimes the horror art project gnarl core Nastie Band. FNM is kind of on semi-permanent hiatus and Imperial Teen is making a record slowly but definitely,” Bottum wrote.
He also shared insights into his creative endeavors, stating, “I wrote an opera about Sasquatch a couple years ago but I can talk about all those projects later. I’m here in anticipation of a book I’ve written, it’s a memoir called The Royal We. It’s my first foray into writing and it’s exciting and scary and a whole new world for me.”
The band’s silence followed the cancellation of their 2022 live dates, which had been postponed in 2021 due to Mike Patton’s mental health challenges and struggles with agoraphobia. Although Patton recovered enough to tour in 2022 with Mr. Bungle, there has been no news regarding Faith No More since the canceled shows. Patton has also been active with the thrash metal supergroup Dead Cross.
Faith No More’s last performance with Patton occurred in October 2015 at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, California. The other band members played a couple of shows in California in August 2016 with the late singer Chuck Mosley.
This coming May marks ten years since Faith No More released their last album, Sol Invictus, in 2015, which arrived 18 years after their previous album, Album of the Year, in 1997.
