Malpractice by Faith No More

This post is inspired by listening to XM radio for 20 minutes. After listening to Between the Buried and Me play a great cover of Pantera's Cementary Gates, Faith No More's "Malpractice" began to play. I almost shit my pants but instead turned the dial up louder.

The track is off of my all time favorite album, Angel Dust. It is great that the DJs at XM radio have the freedom to play truly great metal and it is obvious from their selection that they know their stuff too.

Malpractice starts of with an odd drum syth sequence before a crunching guitar riff pounds a few times. Then it dives right into the first verse where Mike Patton covers a wide range of sinister vocal styles without death growling or screaming. That is later. After the first verse and a brief bridge featuring keyboard playing that foreshadows doom the pre-chorus hits which is Patton screeching. The main bridge or interlude between early verses and later verses dives into breakdowns, then a child's melody with soft singing seep into the mix before the riffage from the beginning returns to pummel the listener and Patton begins barking that the end is in store.

This song contains so many masterful metal elements it is interesting to note that is was a B-side for their main release "Midlife Crisis". When I first heard this song I was blown away by it. It totally overwhelmed me. I could blast it loud and not get in trouble with the parents because it had no profanity. But at the same time just so brutal and aggressive. I would never have imagined, no wait I did imagine it, but I would never have thought that I would hear "Malpractice" on the radio one day. After all it was a B-side.