Faust V

Faust V is an unreleased studio album by the German krautrock group Faust. It was recorded in 1975 at the Arabella/Musicland studios in Munich and engineered by Kurt Graupner during the band’s final year with Virgin Records. The finished album was delivered to Virgin on an in-house cassette labelled "Faust V", but the label declined to issue it and subsequently dropped the band, which disbanded later that year.

Material from the same Munich sessions was later issued on the 1986 Recommended Records LP, which helped establish the story that Virgin had rejected a fifth Faust album. In 2006 the WFMU blog made available a bootlegged eight-track version of the cassette, giving the music its widest informal circulation.

In the 2020s, previously unreleased mid-1970s recordings by Faust were released under the title Punkt and were sometimes described as the band’s “originally unreleased fifth album”. Collectors, however, note that the 1975 Virgin cassette known as Faust V has a different sequence and provenance.