Maynard James Keenan sat down with YouTube persona Rick Beato for a brand new interview, and was requested by the host to call the “best-sounding” album from every of his three bands: Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer.
The query got here towards the latter a part of Beato’s one-hour-plus dialog with Keenan, through which he additionally mentioned his 2025 plans (revealing a brand new Puscifer album is coming), his ideas on pop stars like Billie Eilish, and a Mars Volta album that he feels fell quick sonically, amongst different matters.
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In asking concerning the best-sounding albums from every of Keenan’s bands, Beato clarified that he was referring to each the songwriting and the general recording high quality.
“With Software, I feel it might be, I feel Lateralus,” responded Keenan (as transcribed by ThePRP). There’s only a stability to it. There’s some sonics connected to Ænima — that’s a highly regarded considered one of our albums. However I really feel like Lateralus, there have been some issues occurring with that that had been surprising.”
He continued, “A Excellent Circle, I feel a part of the brand new album, the primary half of the brand new album [Eat the Elephant], I really feel like was there. However total, I’d assume that Thirteenth Step might be the one.”
And eventually, Keenan famous, “Puscifer, I really feel like Existential Reckoning is the one, as a result of we form of had discovered our technique to this. It’s an eccentric album. It’s undoubtedly a sonic panorama. It’s a soundtrack greater than it’s an album. And I really feel like, for what Puscifer is, that form of is an efficient intro into the eccentric nature of Puscifer. I feel lots of people reply to Situations of My Parole as a result of it has extra song-songs on it. However I feel Existential Reckoning has just like the extra panorama, cinematic strategy that I feel is extra the core of what Puscifer is.”
In the identical dialog about sound high quality, Keenan lamented the combo on The Mars Volta’s debut, De-loused within the Comatorium, which was co-produced by Rick Rubin.
‘Sonically, it’s simply horrendous,” Keenan stated of the 2003 Mars Volta LP. “It prefer it hurts your ears. It’s compressed to shit. The power on the album, and the best way that they’re all enjoying collectively, his voice is simply so unimaginable, and the enjoying, after all. But it surely’s as a result of they’re so punk rock, they usually wished to report all of it collectively in a single fucking room. It simply hurts your mind, ’trigger it’s simply it’s so compressed, so you possibly can’t take heed to multiple and a half songs. It begins to essentially put on on you.”
He added, “That bums me out, as a result of I do know that what’s occurring in that room once they had been doing it was transcendent. And for Rick, pulling his hair out, in all probability attempting to get them to separate and make it work sonically. I’m positive he had a approach greater puzzle than he may ever clear up on that.”
Along with placing the ending touches on a brand new Puscifer album, Keenan will embark on a brand new run of the “Sessanta” tour, which options A Excellent Circle, Puscifer, and Primus. The outing kicks off April twenty fourth in Palm Springs, California, with tickets available here.
Watch Maynard James Keenan’s full dialog with Rick Beato under.
