Faith No More, "Superhero"

It was a little strange to discover that in this, the two thousand and fifteenth year of the Common Era, when Faith No More cruised through Webster Hall a couple of weeks ago to promote its new album, Sol Invictus, not only had tickets sold out almost immediately, but they were going for nearly two hundred dollars on the secondary market. The lead single from its first album in seventeen years, “Superhero,” like the rest of Sol Invictus — and apparently Mike Patton’s face, judging by the most recent round of press photos — has a similar ability to distort time: Most of it sounds neither old or new, like it could have come out anytime between 1998’s Album of the Year and today. It might even still sound that way in five years.