I recently found out that Carcass has reunited for a tour (sans Ken Owen, due to health concerns). This makes me very happy; my first exposure to the band was their 1993 album Heartwork, and it just knocked me on my ass. (Imagine what happened when I discovered their material from the 1980s!) Absolutely mindblowing British extreme metal, and that helped start me down the dark musical path I still walk today.

Their reunion got my thinking about other bands that need to reunite. There’s actually been a groundswell of them lately, and 99% of them are completely unnecessary. (The goddamn Backstreet Boys reunited. Christ, what is this world coming to?) What we need is a reunion of a group that propelled rock music forward in ways no one can ever duplicate; a true “avant garde” band, whose music is equally important today as it was nearly twenty years ago.

As such, there’s only one band that absolutely, positively needs to reunite:

Faith No More.

Those guys were so ahead of their fucking time, it’s ridiculous. In fact, you go back and listen to 1989′s The Real Thing, and it’s ahead of the time even now. Seriously, nobody else sounds like them, to this day. Every single album was unique and powerful, right up until the very end in 1998 (Album of the Year). While Faith No More’s lineup changed multiple times over the years, I think what most fans would want to see is the Real Thing/Angel Dust-era lineup of Mike Patton, Mike Bordin, Jim Martin, Roddy Bottum, and Billy Gould. They’re all still alive, which is a good start. Most of them are involved in other projects, especially Patton, who’s in about fifty-three different bands right now. But come on; I’m sure they could carve out some time to do a reunion tour. (Hell, I’d be happy if they played nothing but the Introduce Yourself album live, and Patton wasn’t even in the band back then!)

I know there were some rather severe personality conflicts as time went on, but cut the shit, fellas; let bygones be bygones, and give us a reunion tour that will shake the foundations of the planet. And, hope against hope…a new Faith No More record? That’d be the album of the damn millennium, without a doubt.