10 Rock & Metal Bands Who Fired Their Singer

Cycling through five vocalists within the first nine years of their career, it should go without saying alternative/funk metal outfit Faith No More took more than a little time to settle into their groove.

Mike Patton is of course the vocalist we all associate with the band, having been with them permanently since 1988, and performing on the vast majority of their albums. However, those early days saw Mike Morris, Chuck Mosley and even Courtney Love take a crack at the big job.

But it was Mosley -- the band's second-most permanent vocalist, having appeared on two studio albums -- who caused the band to revolt. Making it big with their second album Introduce Yourself (1987), the popularity went to the singer's head and, when he began fighting his bandmates and falling asleep on stage, they knew something had to change.

And that change was Mosley being unceremoniously fired from the group. Bassist Billy Gould felt out of touch not just with Mosley's attitude but the softer direction he was trying to take the music in, and reached a consensus with the other band members that, if they wanted to keep playing music together, Mosley had to go.