As the expanded, double-disc reissue of Angel Dust reaffirms, Faith No More are a flamboyant, omnivorous pop act trapped in a metal band’s body and Angel Dust was hardly the spiteful act of career suicide their nervous major-label minders at Warner Bros. anticipated, it actually cracked the Billboard Top 10 and went gold in the U.S., while selling loads more in Europe.

But in a post-Nevermind era when the stakes were growing ever higher for alt-rock bands – particularly ones following up a platinum-seller Angel Dust, asserted Faith No More’s willingness to stay in the game, but only if they could play by their own rules.

What makes Angel Dust an eminently fascinating record is not the fact that a band on the cusp of greater success would deign to release an album with songs called “Crack Hitler” and “Jizzlobber” that w