It’s been seven years since A Excellent Circle final launched an album, 2018’s Eat the Elephant, however guitarist Billy Howerdel and singer Maynard James Keenan say {that a} new album might be on the best way.
In a brand new retrospective interview with Revolver wanting again at 25 years of A Excellent Circle, each Howerdel and Keenan addressed the potential for a brand new album.
Howerdel, who composes many of the band’s music, disclosed that he’s been engaged on new songs that might find yourself on the following APC album. “As I’m writing, typically I discover myself [thinking], ‘Wow, I actually like this, however man, that is fucking sinister,’” mentioned the guitarist. “I’m in a not-sleeping-much and self-discovery mode. Once I’m writing music, I’ve been full night-terror, waking up — like, can’t-let-your-mind-rest factor.”
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Keenan added that he’s always writing music for all three of his bands, together with APC, Instrument and Puscifer, noting, “I’m all the time writing. I’m writing with everybody,” whereas particularly referring to Instrument when he remarked, “And if I can get the opposite guys to dig in, there’s all the time that.”
The singer continued, “I’m positive that Billy’s acquired a folder of enjoyable stuff for me to dig by way of. It’s all about timing.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Howerdel appeared again at A Excellent Circle’s evolving lineup over time, together with the departure of authentic bassist Paz Lenchantin. “It was such a excessive, after which it simply form of fell aside,” the guitarist recalled of her exit from the band. “She type of musically broke up with me that day. I feel she wished to contribute extra within the writing, which possibly I used to be holding near my chest nonetheless.”
A Excellent Circle are within the midst of the “Sessanta V2.0 Tour” with Puscifer and Primus. The outing runs by way of a June seventh gig in Auburn, Washington, with tickets to the remaining reveals out there right here.
Final yr, A Excellent Circle, Puscifer, and Primus every launched a brand new music on the Sessanta E.P.P.P., with APC’s contribution being the observe “Kindred.”