Faith No More - Ricochet

What this video is

Released May 1, 1995 as the second single from Faith No More's fifth album 'King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime', 'Ricochet' emerged during a turbulent transitional period for the band and for rock music broadly. The song reached number one on the UK Rock and Metal chart and charted in multiple territories. The choice to build the video around live Paris concert footage — rather than a constructed narrative or…

Why it matters

Representative of the mid-90s alternative metal video format that privileged live performance documentation over constructed narrative, this video sits at the intersection of the grunge-era authenticity discourse and the European rock concert film tradition. Its rapid editing pace and low-light…

The director

Alex Hemming is a music video director credited on the 1995 Faith No More 'Ricochet' promo, confirmed via both IMDb (listed as Alexander Hemming) and Wikipedia. The video was produced by Derin Schelsinger under Slash Records.