Faith No More‘s original split back in 1998 was a contentious time for the group. Keyboardist Roddy Bottum told Revolver of that time period:
“We broke up under pretty shitty circumstances. We’d gone through so much together, doing what we had to do to get from Point A in the back of a crappy ’66 Dodge, to a point where I don’t even know how to set up my keyboard stand, because somebody sets it up for me. To get from Point A to Point B is a really long, long road. And for people, good friends, to get from that point to that point at the age that we were, it was really, really a strain on relationships.
So by the time we broke up, it was kind of like we never really wanted to see each other again [laughs.]I mean, that’s where we were! It was kind of like going through war together—working together, making decisions together, doing finances together, making art together, living together — it was so much more difficult than any marriage would be, or any friendship would be. It was just really hard on us. So by the time we broke up, it was like, ‘Enough!’”
The group have of course since reconciled and will deliver, “Sol Invictus“, their first new full-length album since 1997 on May 19th.
