Software’s Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan have provided a progress replace on the band’s subsequent album, the follow-up to 2019’s Worry Inoculum.
Throughout a current look on the “Loudwire Nights” podcast, Jones and Keenan had been requested about Software’s plans for the subsequent yr, because the band has but to e-book any live performance dates for 2026.
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“Writing, I suppose,” replied Keenan (as transcribed by NME). He then turned to Jones: “You guys are busy, Adam?” — referring to his bandmates. Jones replied within the affirmative.
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“We need to get one other report out and play, do what we do,” the guitarist stated. “The three of us [myself, drummer Danny Carey, and bassist Justin Chancellor] have been jamming. I don’t know for those who go, ‘Oh, the writing course of has began.’ It’s at all times there. Between making ready for an upcoming tour or no matter we’re doing, there’s factors the place somebody goes, ‘Oh, I obtained this and I obtained this.’ However I feel we’re going to dive deep quickly.”
Maynard then chimed in about how considered one of Adam’s new riffs gave the impression of a Black Sabbath track, the latter including that he hopes to show the riff right into a Software track.
“I’ll in all probability bug these guys once more about making an attempt to show that right into a future Software track,” Jones stated. “I’ve obtained a lot of riffs, we put them collectively, tear them aside and attempt to make one thing that we’re all into.”
Jones’ remarks echo these made by bassist Justin Chancellor earlier this yr. On the time, Chancellor stated that he and his bandmates can be dedicating “the subsequent three months” to organizing their concepts within the studio — greater than seemingly the “jamming” Jones was referring to — and that the band already had a “actually good pile of stuff.”
Within the meantime, Software will wrap up varied dwell commitments by the tip of 2025, together with their first live performance appearances in Hawaii in practically 15 years in December. Get tickets right here.
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