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''Angel Dust'' is the fourth studio album by American rock band Faith No More. It was first released through Slash Records on June 8, 1992 in Europe and the United States. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful ''The Real Thing'', as well as the band's final studio album with guitarist Jim Martin and the second to feature vocalist Mike Patton. It was the first album in which Patton had any substantial influence on the band's music,〔 having been hired after the other band members had written and recorded everything for ''The Real Thing'' except vocals and some lyrics.〔 It remains Faith No More's best-selling album outside the United States (where, as of November 2010, it has sold 678,000 copies).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=(article ) )〕 The album and subsequent tour were very successful in Europe where it went Platinum on sales of more than one million copies and Gold in Australia with more than 35,000 sales. Worldwide sales are around 2.5 million copies. On March 2, 2015 a deluxe edition containing previous unreleased tracks was released via Slash Records. ==Background, title and artwork== Following the success of their previous album, ''The Real Thing'' and its subsequent tour, Faith No More took a break for a year and a half before beginning work on the follow-up, ''Angel Dust''. During this time Mike Patton rejoined his high-school band Mr. Bungle to record their eponymous début album. This situation had an effect on the band, since drummer Mike Bordin thought the writing process was like the state of a "magic slate" having been "completely covered in writing; there was not any more room for any more writing on that slate, so we all went and said all right, and erased everything, and started writing new stuff," and Patton was creatively revitalized.〔 They decided not to "play it safe" and instead took a different musical direction, much to the dismay of guitarist Jim Martin. Martin also didn't like the title of the album as chosen by keyboardist Roddy Bottum. In an interview taken while they were in the studio he said that "Roddy () wanted to name it Angel Dust, I don't know why, I just want you to know that if it's named Angel Dust, it didn't have anything to do with me.〔The Making of Angel Dust, Jim Martin interview. MTV. Retrieved 22 December 2007〕 Bottum stated that he chose the name because it "summed up what () did perfectly" in that "it's a really beautiful name for a really hideous drug and that should make people think." The artwork similarly put a beautiful face on a horrible image by depicting a soft blue airbrushed egret on the front cover, photographed by Werner Krutein, while on the back is an image of a cow hanging on a meat hook, created by Mark Burnstein.〔 Both bassist Billy Gould and Mike Bordin said that the image on the rear of the album is not based on any opposition to vegetarianism but rather a preview of the music, suggesting its combination of being "really aggressive and disturbing and then really soothing", the "beautiful with the sick".〔 The photo of a group of Russian soldiers with the band members' faces inserted was edited by Werner Krutein and used as the cover of the "Midlife Crisis" single. The band had originally planned for this but then did not like the final product.〔 Mike Bordin described the situation: The single cover is similar to that of ''Led Zeppelin II'', which features the faces of the members of Led Zeppelin and others airbrushed into a 1917 photograph of Jagdstaffel 11, a German airplane squadron of the First World War led by Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angel Dust (Faith No More album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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