Maynard James Keenan sat down with YouTube character 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: Device, A Good Circle, and Puscifer.
The query got here towards the latter a part of Beato’s one-hour-plus dialog with Keenan, during 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 brief sonically, amongst different matters.
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In asking in regards to 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 Device, I feel it will 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 very fashionable one among our albums. However I really feel like Lateralus, there have been some issues occurring with that that had been surprising.”
He continued, “A Good 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 general, I’d suppose that Thirteenth Step might be the one.”
And at last, Keenan famous, “Puscifer, I really feel like Existential Reckoning is the one, as a result of we type of had discovered our method 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 type of is an efficient intro into the eccentric nature of Puscifer. I feel lots of people reply to Circumstances 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 way in which that they’re all taking part in collectively, his voice is simply so unbelievable, and the taking part in, after all. But it surely’s as a result of they’re so punk rock, they usually wished to document all of it collectively in a single fucking room. It simply hurts your mind, ’trigger it’s simply it’s so compressed, so you’ll be able to’t hearken to a couple of 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 after they had been doing it was transcendent. And for Rick, pulling his hair out, in all probability making an attempt to get them to separate and make it work sonically. I’m certain he had a method larger puzzle than he might ever resolve 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 Good Circle, Puscifer, and Primus. The outing kicks off April twenty fourth in Palm Springs, California, with tickets out there right here.
Watch Maynard James Keenan’s full dialog with Rick Beato beneath.