10 Metal Bands Who Made 5 Great Albums In A Row

There are many examples of '90s and '00s legends splitting up and then reuniting ten years later to become cynical, embarrassing imitations of their former selves, pedalling old material to nostalgic crowds, but Faith No More are NOT one of them.

With a legendary, funk metal catalogue spanning the 1980s and 1990s, the band came back after a hiatus and managed to produce another album that lives up to their best. They’re the band that most tired legends wish they could be, and we’ll start their five-album run with 1989s The Real Thing - although, like many bands on this list, the run doesn’t begin to cover their greatness.

If The Real Thing introduced the world to the wacky, brilliance of Mike Patton, the bands run of Angel Dust (1992), King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995), Album of the Year (1997) and Sol Invictus (2015) showed that the band were fierce musical visionaries.

Through their career, Faith No More have been wildly creative, with a recognisable definitive sound that somehow changes on every release. They’re cool, funky, punk, heavy, crooning, cinematic and melodic. Faith No More have spent their career escaping the wrath of pigeonholing and look at all the beauty achieved because of it.