Publication: spin
Date: April, 2001
Transcribed by
eric b (e687@hotmail.com)
eric b (e687@hotmail.com)
page: 86 title: maynard keenan the dark prince of art-metal author: pat blashill The fabulously tortured Maynard James Keenan will be touring through March with his user-friendly side project A Perfect Circle (which, having sold nearly 2 million albums, is already more than a side project). After that-drum roll, please-his main rig, Tool, will release the third punishing joint of their cathartic career, the very tentatively titled Systema Encephale. It's been close to five years in the coming, and the metallic world has changed drastically. But the new songs are reportedly the kind of ambitious, long-form prog- metal epics we've come to love. Tool don't need rapping or electronic beats: There's a hard, timeless beauty in the yin/yang combo of Keenan's shredded coon and the sadistic, nail-gun guitars of Adam Jones. See the smash-your-head climax of Aenima's "Forty Six & 2", for instance, which is scorching enough to exorcise just about all of the everyday rage and frustration from your average 7-Eleven clerk. Metal machine music has never been so perversely consoling.
Posted to t.d.n: 03/05/01 11:21:23