Angel Dust (Faith No More album)

Angel Dust
Studio album by
Faith No More
ReleasedJune 8, 1992
RecordedLate 1991-January–March 1992
StudioCoast Recorders and Brilliant Studios, San Francisco, California[1]
Genre
Length58:47
Label
Producer
Faith No More chronology
The Real Thing
(1989) 		Angel Dust
(1992) 		King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
(1995)
Singles from Angel Dust
  1. "Midlife Crisis"
    Released: May 25, 1992
  2. "A Small Victory"
    Released: August 3, 1992
  3. "Everything's Ruined"
    Released: November 9, 1992
  4. "Easy"
    Released: December 29, 1992

Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by American rock band Faith No More, released on June 8, 1992, by Slash and Reprise Records. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful The Real Thing, and was the band's final album to feature guitarist Jim Martin. It was also the first album where vocalist Mike Patton had any substantial influence on the band's music,[5][6] having been hired after the other band members had written and recorded everything for The Real Thing except vocals and most of the lyrics.[7][8][9] The band stated that they wanted to move away from the funk metal style of their prior releases, towards a more "theatrical" sound.[10][11]

Angel Dust is Faith No More's best-selling album to date, having sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. It also debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, making it the band's only top-ten album in the United States.

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  11. ^ Billboard 11 Jul 1992. Billboard. 1992. p. 14. Retrieved June 26, 2022. the touring will serve to introduce new FNM material that is not entirely in the funk-metal groove that predominated on The Real Thing