Drummer Eric Matthews (photo) has teamed up with former Faith No More frontman Chuck Mosley. The duo are currently working on an album with their new band, Vandals Against Illiteracy (VUA). Mosley recently told Billboard.com:\"The album we\'re working on and trying to finish is called \"Will Rap Over Hard Rock for Food\". It\'s more kind of my style — more noisiness, but there\'s some rapping over hard rock. There\'s more screaming and singing — some short punk rock songs, some harder ones, acoustic jammies.\"
Joining Mosley and Matthews in VUA are Cobra Verde guitarist Tim Parnin and bassist Ed Stevens. In addition to handling vocals, Mosley also supplies some guitar.
Chuck Mosley was the second vocalist for Faith No More, after Courtney Love\'s short stint as lead singer ended.
With Mosley at the helm, Faith No More became one of the \'80s\' leading underground bands on the strength of 1985\'s \"We Care a Lot\" and 1987\'s \"Introduce Yourself\".
However, Mosley was kicked out of the band in the late 80s for drug abuse and inappropriate behavior and was replaced with Mike Patton from Mr. Bungle. Afterwards, Chuck joined Bad Brains and spent one year with them.
Despite exiting the group in 1988 under less-than-friendly circumstances, Mosley is now friendly with most of his former FNM bandmates. In fact, keyboardist Roddy Bottum appears on the new album\'s remake of the title track from \"We Care a Lot\".
