���� Back in stock. Man, in 1989, Faith No More was the band for me. Discovering them through a combination of their huge MTV hit "Epic", and regularly being talked up by just about every single Bay Area thrash band that I was a fan of, these guys soon became an obsession of mine. I bet that I listened to both The Real Thing and Introduce Yourself a thousand times over by the time we were heading into the 90s. My obsession with their music would end up dissipating after Angel Dust and the departure of guitarist Jim Martin, but I continued to dig their output all the way up until the band's dissolution towards the end of the decade.

���� Like many fellow young thrashers who was turned on to weirder metal through these guys, I was pretty stoked when Faith No More was resurrected a few years back, and especially when they announced that they would be releasing new music. As the lead-up to their comeback album Sol Invictus, the band released a pair of 7" singles to whet their audience's appetite, the second of which was the Superhero EP. Featuring that single paired with a remix by Alexander Hacke of Einsturzende Neubauten, the furious, post-punk tinged heaviness felt like a throwback to the band's early 90's output, combining Mike Patton's multi-faceted vocals with an Indian/Arabic-tinged piano melody, crushing metallic riffage, and miles of dark groove. Really, it sounds like it could have come off of any of those earlier Patton-era albums, and quelled any fears that these guys might have lost the spark that made them such a unique proposition during their heyday. The remix on the b-side draws those percussive and Middle Eastern-influenced elements out, stripping away most of the heaviness and aggression for an even darker and stranger result. If you already have the new album, then you already have the song, but this 7" is still a cool collectible for hardcore Faith No More fans, that Hacke remix proving to be highly infectious.