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In 2006, after 6 years within the building, singer/producer Mike Patton (Trust FORGET ABOUT, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Fantômas) added Peeping Tom to his amazing list of completed projects. Influenced by movie director Michael Powell’s 1960 cult thriller of the same name, Patton spent years sending songs to potential collaborators as …

Formed by Device vocalist Maynard Wayne Keenan and previous Device guitar tech Billy Howerdel, AN IDEAL Circle can be an extension from the alt-metal-fused-with-art rock and roll design popularized by Device in the first to mid-’90s. While much like Tool in strength and melancholy, AN IDEAL Circle is much less …

Like the past due Ian Curtis of Joy Division and Robert Smith from the Cure, Maynard James Keenan (vocals) of Tool isn’t afraid to unseal the hidden miseries of everyday existence. Given birth to and elevated in Ravenna, OH, Keenan became a member of the Military in 1982. Keenan went …

While one may imagine Maynard James Keenan could have more than enough going to keep him busy being a frontman using the groupings Tool and AN IDEAL Group, in 2007 he made a decision to record an album under just one more name: Puscifer. Described by Keenan as “the area …

Maybe a precursor to a “second wave” from the Bristol sound, England’s Malakai certainly are a duo composed of vocalist Gee and multi-instrumentalist Scott. Both got an early on break after becoming “found out” by among their hometown’s even more precious musical sons: Portishead’s Geoff Barrow. With Barrow’s assistance — …