THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Faith No More posted an Instagram graphic showing their logo and “2027” over a crowd shot — the first public signal from a band whose frontman said he wasn’t sure they even wanted him back *‡. Drummer Mike Bordin said in 2025 that Mike Patton had gone from “unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us,” and keyboardist Roddy Bottum called the band semi-permanently hiatus’d last fall before sharing the reunion image himself *‡. The band signed a global touring deal with Brazilian promoter 30e, the same company handling System Of A Down *§.
THE DETAILS
- Faith No More last performed together in August 2016 with former vocalist Chuck Mosley for We Care a Lot anniversary shows at the Troubadour *‡
- Patton canceled 2021 Faith No More and Mr. Bungle tours citing mental health issues and heavy drinking worsened by pandemic-era agoraphobia *‡
- The band released Sol Invictus in 2015 and toured behind it before an 11-year performance gap *†‡
- Planned 2020 co-headlining dates with Korn never happened due to COVID-19 ‡
- Patton has since quit drinking and toured with a rebooted Mr. Bungle, but told interviewers in 2022 he hadn’t talked to his Faith No More bandmates *‡
- 30e will handle global touring under the new deal *§
WHY IT MATTERS
BUCKET LIST. If Patton actually shows up, this is the rarest Faith No More window in over a decade — a frontman who publicly questioned whether his band wanted him, a drummer who said Patton became “unwilling” to play with them, and a keyboardist who thought he’d never perform with them again all suddenly posting the same graphic *‡. The fact that they signed a touring deal before announcing actual dates tells you someone thinks the money’s worth the risk of another cancellation.