Mike Patton’s outfit outline their return.

Alt-metal pioneers Faith No More made tentative steps towards a comeback last year with the release of ‘Motherfucker’, a brand new track written for the group’s first record since 1997’s Album of the Year.

After putting that single out as 7″ for Record Store Day on Black Friday last November, the band has named the new full-length as Sol Invictus. Due out on May 19 on their own Reclamation Records and Ipecac Recordings, the album was self-produced by Faith No More’s bassist Bill Gould and recorded in their studio in Oakland, California.

“Hopefully it doesn’t sound like a bunch of 50-year-old men… which we are!” Gould told Rolling Stone last year. The band started work on the record almost two years ago, during a break from reunion gigs. “We weren’t touring, we have these songs that we were working on – that we think are pretty cool – [so we thought] why don’t we just do our own imprint and kind of reclaim our future?'”

The next single, ‘Superhero’, will be out as another limited edition 7″ on March 17 and digitally on March 31.

Faith No More are only Mike Patton’s second best band, of course – for more on that, read Robin Jahdi’s feature in praise of Mr. Bungle.

Hear ‘Motherfucker’ below.