Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by the 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, having been hired after the other band members had written and recorded everything for The Real Thing except vocals and most of the lyrics.
The band stated that they wanted to move away from the funk metal style of their prior releases, towards a more “theatrical” sound. There were 5 singles released from the album: Midlife Crisis (May 26, 1992), Land of Sunshine (June 1992), A Small Victory (August 3, 1992) Everything’s Ruined (November 9, 1992, Easy (December 29, 1992).
Angel Dust is Faith No More‘s second best-selling album to date, having sold over 3.1 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 having sold 715,000 copies as of January 2025. The album landed as the 48th highest selling record of 1992 in all of Europe going Gold in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway. Angel Dust also had big success in Canada (Platinum) and Brazil (Platinum), Australia (Gold).
Tracklist:
- Land of Sunshine
- Caffeine
- Midlife Crisis
- RV
- Smaller and Smaller
- Everything’s Ruined
- Malpractice
- Kindergarten
- Be Aggressive
- A Small Victory
- Crack Hitler
- Jizzlobber
- Midnight Cowboy (instrumental)
- Easy (Commodores cover) (re-release bonus track 1993)
Faith No More
Mike Bordin: drums
Roddy Bottum: keyboards
Billy Gould: bass
Jim Martin: guitar
Mike Patton: vocals
Production
Matt Wallace: producer, engineer, mixing
David Bryson: co-mixing
Adam Munoz, Craig Doubet, Gibbs Chapman, Lindsay Valentine, Nikki Tafrallin: assistant engineering
John Golden: mastering
Kim Champagne: artwork direction
Ross Halfin: band photo
Wernher Krutein: bird photo, Red Square photo adaptation
Mark Burnstein: meat photo
