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"Eighteen long years since the release of Faith No More&amp;apos;s last album, the iconoclastic alt-metal group will release Sol Invictus on May 19th, via their own label, Reclamation.&amp;#xA0;Bassist Bill Gould produced the 10-song record in the group&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Estudios Koolarrow&amp;quot; studio, while frontman Mike Patton recorded his vocals at Vulcan Studios, both in Oakland, California. The track&amp;#xA0;list is below.\r\n\r\nIn a statement the band explained that the seeds of the new album began with a new tune it first played in 2011 in Buenos Aires. &amp;quot;When we debuted our new song &amp;apos;Matador,&amp;apos; we just told them it was a cover song, and they still went crazy,&amp;quot; Gould said.\r\n&amp;quot;&amp;apos;Matador&amp;apos; was the first idea that Billy brought to the rest of us, and was in a sense a new beginning,&amp;quot; keyboardist Roddy Boddum said.\r\n&amp;quot;Hypnotic and gothic, we&amp;apos;re coming back to where we were with our first album,&amp;quot; the bassist offered, citing Siouxsie and the Banshees and Roxy Music as early influences. &amp;quot;Then Patton&amp;apos;s being Patton, crooning, screaming, with a bit of soul underneath it all. We&amp;apos;ve always taken strange influences and smashed them together.&amp;quot;\r\nLast November, the band put out its first song in nearly as many years, &amp;quot;Motherfucker,&amp;quot; as a limited-edition Black Friday single. Then, on the day of its release, they gave the tune its live debut during an impromptu concert &amp;#x2014; complete with masked gimp &amp;#x2014; at San Francisco&amp;apos;s Amoeba Records, along with another new track, &amp;quot;Superhero.&amp;quot; The latter song will come out officially as a studio recording, first as a seven-inch single on March 17th then digitally on March 31st.\r\n&amp;quot;When we split up, we explored what we could do on our own,&amp;quot; the bassist and producer said in a statement. &amp;quot;During that time, we each developed what was a natural part of ourselves. Now, coming back, we have a wider perspective so we can do things we didn&amp;apos;t even think of back in the day. If we were to decide to do country-western music, it would still sound like a Faith No More album. Together we have a strong collective identity, and when we work together it makes its own animal.&amp;quot;\r\nThe release of the new song will coincide with the band&amp;apos;s first North American tour since 2010. The month-long, sold-out trek will kick off April 15th in Vancouver and making its way all over the continent to Philly for a May 15th finale. The group has promised on Twitter that this run will not be the only U.S. tour dates this year.\r\n&amp;quot;I think what we&amp;apos;re doing reflects where we&amp;apos;ve gone since we made our last record as Faith No More,&amp;quot; Gould told Rolling Stone this past September. &amp;quot;I think this kicks things up a notch. And I think there&amp;apos;s parts that are very powerful and there&amp;apos;s parts that have a lot of &amp;apos;space.&amp;apos; Everything we do, with our chemistry, the way we play; it&amp;apos;s always going to sound like us. It&amp;apos;s just what we do, that makes us feel good. Hopefully it doesn&amp;apos;t sound like a bunch of 50-year-old men...&amp;quot; He then laughed and added, &amp;quot;which we are.&amp;quot;\r\nSol Invictus Track List:\r\n1. &amp;quot;Sol Invictus&amp;quot; 2. &amp;quot;Superhero&amp;quot; 3. &amp;quot;Sunny Side Up&amp;quot; 4. &amp;quot;Separation Anxiety&amp;quot; 5. &amp;quot;Cone of Shame&amp;quot; 6. &amp;quot;Rise of the Fall&amp;quot; 7. &amp;quot;Black Friday&amp;quot; 8. &amp;quot;Motherfucker&amp;quot; 9. &amp;quot;Matador&amp;quot; 10. &amp;quot;From the Dead&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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