10 Most Important Hard Rock Bands Of The 90s
9. Faith No More
If it wasn't entirely clear by the alternative bandwagon, the next generation of rock was about to get weird. From the type of bands that were about to grace the charts with names like Mudhoney and the Butthole Surfers, the mainstream wasn't exactly prepared for something this left field coming to the hit parade. And we all really should have seen it coming from the first band that was willing to throw their hat into the ring.
Long before grunge was even a thing, Faith No More was already making some of the weirdest hard rock music this side of Frank Zappa on their records. Though an album like the Real Thing came out in 1989, it didn't have its first real surge until 1990, where songs like Epic and Falling to Pieces really started to take over the airwaves. Once they tasted success though, they had no interest in repeating it either, going for something even more experimental on Angel Dust and managing to get something like Mid Life Crisis onto the radio.
Along with Mike Patton's off the wall lyrics, this was the kind of hard rock that could please both the metalheads and the alternative kids, being like the Red Hot Chili Peppers by way of Metallica. Although grunge definitely was on its way in, Faith No More was the real sign that change was on the horizon for MTV.