“Digging the Grave” by Faith No More

"Digging the Grave" came tearing out of Faith No More in 1995, a single from King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, their fifth studio album, and it was made by a band held together with gaffer tape. Jim Martin had been fired from the guitar spot, and keyboardist Roddy Bottum was absent, mourning his father and his friend Kurt Cobain. The band cut it at Bearsville Studios with Andy Wallace producing and mixing and Trey Spruance on guitar.

Mike Bordin, Billy Gould and Mike Patton share the music credit, Patton wrote the words, and what they came up with is alternative metal at its most bloody-minded. Critics, then and since, keep coming back to how dark and aggressive it sounds. It went top 20 in Australia, New Zealand and across Europe, while America wanted no part of it.

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