As you undoubtedly already noticed by now my metal taste varies from the symphonic, to the black, to mellower rock/metal, to basically anything I find appealing and inspires me in any form whatsoever.
A friend of mine who was working with me for a few years tried to get me familiarized with Tool but for some reason I was not interested in it as I was more into the symphonic Goth metal scene at first. He did tell me about a few songs and I made a mental note to check it out sometime. He also told me about the singer,
Maynard James Keenan.
As time progressed and my search for new bands I like continued, I would sometimes grasp the somewhat lighter, more rock-like scene as well. I started getting into
A Perfect Circle, which is somewhat like alternative rock, alternative metal, after my brother played the song
Pet. It was not before long that I realized the song
Pet had somewhat similar lyrics to one of the songs my former colleague told me about, which was called
Counting Bodies Like Sheep (To The Rhythm Of The War Drums). This opened the door for me to listen to more of A Perfect Circle. I found the album [i]Thirteenth Step[/i] and loved it instantly. Out of A Perfect Circle the songs which still get to me are
Weak And Powerless, The Noose, Pet, Blue, The Outsider and Gravity.
I then listened to a few of
Tool songs, which include the same singer, and loved those too. Tool can be somewhat defined as alternative metal, art rock, progressive metal, progressive rock. My favourite Tool songs:
10,000 Days, Wings For Marie, 46&2, The Grudge, Parabol, Ticks & Leeches, Lateralus, Right In Two, Sober, Schism..
A song of the band Deftones features Maynard in it, and is called The Passenger. The mix of the two voices makes this song really worthwhile as well.
I then remembered my former colleague once talking about a song called Rev 22:20 and looked it up. It is from a band called
Puscifer, which can be classified as ambient, comedy rock, experimental, post-industrial, trip hop, yet another of Maynard’s projects. I loved that song Rev 22:20 too, which featured on the Underworld soundtrack. I have yet to listen to the rest of Puscifer’s CD’s but I reckon as I loved all of Tool and all of A Perfect Circle, Puscifer will fit into this picture just fine.
I had stopped listening to A Perfect Circle and Tool for some time when I rolled into the Black Metal scene, however sometimes I roll back into it, as I have done a few months ago. The songs still have the same impact for me.
Most recent rumours are Tool is working on a new album, to be released sometime this year. For A Perfect Circle new album ideas were first frozen until in 2010 a Twitter message appeared indicating that there might be a new album release in the future as well. I can’t wait to hear more from this singer, who definitely has a talent for diversity in all of his projects.
I''m really curious about what the future will bring for both bands and in the meantime I will check out Puscifer as well :)
