Credited for inspiring the likes of Nirvana, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses, Faith No More is a keystone act if there ever was one.

Founded in 1979 and currently resting on the five pillars of Billy Gould, Roddy Bottum, Mike Bordin, Jon Hudson and Mike Patton, the San Francisco experimental, alternative metal band and cult heroes command an intensely devoted fanbase worshiping their incomparable integration of such disparate genres as heavy metal, funk, hip-hop and progressive rock.

With seven celebrated albums to date, their epic, larger-than-life sound has truly transcended time and place, captivating generations of listeners in the process. Most recently, Faith No More just reissued two of their most crucial records: 1995’s King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime and 1997’s Album of the Year.

To mark the new reissues, we sat down with Faith No More’s Mike Bordin to talk about five albums that have shaped his life and music.

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The Beatles: Rubber Soul

This is my dad’s record! It’s a real transitional record for me; it took me from being a 7-year-old kid listening to Peter, Paul and Mary and “Puff the Magic Dragon” to “Tomorrow Never Knows” and “Norwegian Wood.” It was really life changing.

Black Sabbath: Master of Reality

Honesty it probably isn’t my favorite Sabbath record – but it’s one of the first I heard in its entirety. Tracks like “After Forever” are just so heavy. It’s dark, it’s thunderous. This wasn’t my parents’ music. This was mine!

Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah

I actually heard this early on, from a friend of [former FNM frontman] Chuck Mosley’s. It’s categorized as a jazz record, but really it was just a guy doing traditional music. It’s got real soul from its greasy and murky roots – it’s R&B, it’s gospel, it’s jazz, but it’s also a blues record. Really it got me into everything.

Joe Jackson: Jumpin’ Jive

Joe had some real well-made songs – and then right when he was at this peak of new wave and power pop, he just turned around and made this record of ’30s jump classics. He made a real statement with it – it look a lot of courage to do that. And this record really made me smile. It gave me joy.

Killing Joke: Killing Joke

I took some time away from the extreme aggression of metal for a couple of years, and got into a whole new kind of aggression in punk. I saw lots of similarities between this record and metal. It was like going back to something so ultra-aggressive, I wanted to emulate that power in the drums – and nothing personifies that power quite like Paul Ferguson. It changed everything for me.