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"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed

Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance

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"We’re here for you, Randy. Might be time for a beer or three." Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan offers support to the US Army's top general ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

Maynard James Keenan and General Randy George were West Point Prep classmates in the early 80s

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"There are a lot of people who don't seem interested or even notice that the world's on fire." Puscifer's Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round discuss soundtracking the end times

Why we all need to put down our phone and pick up a glass of gin

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"If you’re trying to have followers and make them think like you do, you’re just building a cult." How Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer explore comedy and tragedy

When the world gets dark, Puscifer get weird and their new album Normal Isn't is as weird as it gets

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"She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life

Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist salutes a folk-rock icon

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"What the heck were you thinking, dude? I would fall to my death." Maynard James Keenan has thoughts on Tool soundtracking that terrifying climb up one of the tallest buildings on Earth

"What balls!" Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan salutes Alex Honnold's live Netflix climb up the Taipei 101 skyscraper

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“I guess people just don’t think like we do”: Maynard James Keenan thinks Puscifer are in the “third side-project category” but is happy on the side of the underdog

The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle

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“What the heck were you thinking, dude?”: As Alex Honnold reveals just how much Tool he listened to during his free climb of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, the band’s frontman Maynard James Keenan speaks for all of us

“I just know how long the songs are,” says Honnold. “So it gives you a sense of if you’re going fast or slow”

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"I was trying to make a butt sex joke and it was dumb." Maynard James Keenan regrets some of the lyrics he wrote on those early Tool records

Widely regarded as a smart and witty lyricist, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan thinks he could have done better on some tracks

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“I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that”: How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen

Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan

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"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world

Tenacious D had friends in high places, and they used them to bring this 2000s smash hit to life

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“The stupidest thing I could have done was put myself out as much as I did. I’ll never make that mistake again”: Inspired by astrology and personal tragedy, Tool’s Maynard James Keenan wrote his most personal song. He came to regret it

It was the emotional highlight of Tool’s 10,000 Days album

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“It was like a demonic, otherworldly séance going on in there with one person”: A Perfect Circle have made four albums. These are the stories behind them all

A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel breaks down his band’s four studio albums

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“He will go down as one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. I can bring him a bass riff in seven-and-a-half and he’ll be right on it”: Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog

With their uncompromising blend of formidable time signatures and distorted guitar riffs, Tool are a band quite unlike any other

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"There was a period during my teenage years where I felt emotionally abandoned, so to speak." Wolfgang Van Halen has a thing or two to say about living up to expectations

From recording with Van Halen to touring with Metallica, Wolfgang Van Halen has worked hard at standing on his own two feet

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Watch Tool play a bunch of rarities for the first time in 20 years, plus a Black Sabbath cover, during New Zealand shows over the weekend

Deep cuts from the Undertow, Ænima and 10,000 Days albums found their way back onto the setlist as the prog metal icons kicked off their Oceania/Asia tour

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"I showed up with Tibetan Singing Bowls, some percussion instruments and champagne, and asked them permission to do some experiments." The strange story behind Deftones and Maynard James Keenan's incredible collab, Passenger

One of the best metal collaborations of the 2000s featured two unique creative forces joining forces

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“I could see downtown Hollywood and all the transformers were blowing. It looked like the city was being bombed”: How Terminator 2, a banned video and a massive earthquake shaped a classic Tool song

The story of Tool‘s classic 1993 single Prison Sex

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“We miss you. It’s been far too long. We found a solution.” A Perfect Circle announce first European tour for seven years

Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel's alt metallers A Perfect Circle will tour the EU and UK for the first time since 2018

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“It’s almost cooler that we never did release it. It’s become this mythical thing now”: The lost Nine Inch Nails supergroup that could have united two of rock’s most iconic singers

This early 2000s project could have been asbolutely huge

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“I was outside shoveling some moldy hay into a wheelbarrow, and my wife comes out holding the phone. She thought it was a prank call”: Scott Reeder on the time he auditioned for Metallica – after Lars Ulrich cold-called him

Reeder didn't get the Metallica gig but the stoner-rock bass icon got a helluva story out of it – and the silver medal in the metal Olympics

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"The thing you’re getting on your phone sucks." Maynard James Keenan's ban on filming his live shows is here to stay

Filming on phones and other devices is prohibited at Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer shows – and that's not likely to change

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“The guy everyone is so serious about, it all started with ‘not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin’”: How a novelty 90s comedy song gave Tool’s Maynard James Keenan his first hit

Before Tool broke big, Maynard James Keenan was squealing like a pig on a 90s hit

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"It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more

Watch the inside story of the rise, fall, and rise again of Failure

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Primus share new single Little Lord Fentanyl, their first new music for three years

Little Lord Fentanyl is the band's first new studio track since 2022’s Conspiranoid EP, and features new drummer John Hoffman and guest Maynard James Keenan

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