For those of us crusty enough to have been alive in the UK in the early 1990s, the best way of grasping what was going on in heavy guitar music was to stay up until 3 AM on a Thursday and watch the ITV metal hour, Raw Power (times may vary subject to regional variations).
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Very few actions handicap a release like an uninspired cover; nevertheless, noted frontman Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle) felt compelled to cover Queen's epic "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Accept's "Balls to the Wall" on the seven-track Donkey Punch the Night EP, the newest release from his passion project Puscifer.
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Down have announced that they will perform a handful of headline dates this May. Kicking things off on May 23 in Birmingham, Ala., the band will stop in 7 cities in the Southeast including Baltimore's Maryland Deathfest, and wrap things up with a hometown show in New Orleans on May 31.
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Basically, every single song that Maynard James Keenan has recorded—whether it's from Tool , A Perfect Circle , or Puscifer —has enough merit to be on this ARTISTdirect.com list.
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Right, so late last year we were told that work on the new Tool album was coming along nicely.
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Even though Tool continues to work on their new album despite horrific Vespa accidents, frontman Maynard James Keenan insists that it won't be ready by year's end.
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They set the standard just a little bit higher for everybody else to follow, and an entire crop of younger artists follows suit until somebody else comes along to lead them.
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Work on Tool's fifth album, the follow-up to 2006′s '10,000 Days', continues to progress slowly , and the band may now be as far as halfway through the writing process, according to the latest edition of their email newsletter.
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Tool 's webmaster posted an encouraging note about possible new music from the band, which isn't exactly what we'd call prolific or forthcoming when it pertains to new music.
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When Rage Against The Machine dropped their self-titled debut, rock music and hip hop changed forever.
Read MoreAccept's "Balls to the Wall" wouldn't exactly be on my short list of "Songs I'd expect Maynard James Keenan To Sing," but that's exactly what the Tool frontman did at Bonnaroo earlier this month.
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Singer Maynard James Keenan, of Tool , A Perfect Circle and Puscifer fame, has been quite vocal about his distaste for illegal downloading through the years.
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When we reported on Tool's (recently wrapped) winter tour, we hoped that it would bring news of the band working on a new album.
Read MoreMy father once told me that "celebrities eat and drink and piss and shit just like us," which was his poetic way of saying that famous folks are just people, too.
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After taking some time off starting back in 2008, Tool just might be back.
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After a false start last week, Tool and Ticketmaster have gotten on the same page to announce the band's confirmed itinerary starting in Reno on January 14.
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If you're a big tool fan you've probably followed the musical journey of Maynard James Keenan over the years.
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Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has spoken about the process for a new album.
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All year Rihanna, whose last couple of tours were not exactly massive universal sellouts, has been steadily parsing out great singles from her underrated 2010 album – including "S&M," which sold more than 2.7 million copies by mid-year, "Cheers (Drink to That)" and, this past week, "We Found Love," which just hit Number One on iTunes and Number Six on both Billboard's Hot 100 and BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart.
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When Tool's Lateralus came out a few years back, there was much talk about how intense it was going to be, how it was going to be all about building tension and sudden release.
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Fans would be forgiven for hoping for/expecting Maynard James Keenan to follow his current A Perfect Circle run with the long-awaited fifth Tool album.
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MetalSucks recently polled its staff to determine who are The Top 25 Modern Metal Guitarists, and after an incredible amount of arguing, name calling, and physical violence, we have finalized that list!
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Drummer Josh Freese just might be superhuman.
Read MoreOf all the issues we're forced to think about on a daily basis in this ever-turbulent world — the shaky world economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, political unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, illegal immigration, climate change, Rodney King — surely one of the most burning questions on the forefront of your mind is "What is like to be Maynard James Keenan preparing for a show and walking out onto the stage?"
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Released in 2009, The Heart is a Drum Machine was a documentary by director Christopher Pomerenke that explored the transformative nature of music and the intense relationships we hold with it.
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If you love A Perfect Circle , then the past few months have been a slow build to something wonderful.
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Last time, I hinted that Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery wasn't going to be on this list.
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If there's any doubt that video games are a force in the music industry, all one had to do was look at the star-powered lineup that took over L.A.'s Staples Center for Activision's kickoff party for the E3 video game conference.
Read MoreSo Maynard James Keenan has said that Tool are working on their next album, and that "If it comes together" they may even play some new shit live this summer.
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