Maynard James Keenan has mentioned he doesn’t wish to sing some Software songs as “the phrases are simply dumb” and “don’t maintain as much as scrutiny”.
The frontman appeared as a visitor on Jackass star Steve-O’s podcast Wilde Trip! this week, and the host knowledgeable him that an AI search had described Software’s music as “reverent”, inflicting Keenan to scoff.
“Yeah, I don’t learn about that…reverence for fist fucking??” he responded, in a wry nod to the 1996 Software traditional ‘Stinkfist’.
Keenan added: “There’s some outdated Software songs that I don’t like taking part in them as a result of I really feel like I failed them. They’re in style songs, however I used to be attempting to make a joke and it was a dumb joke, and I ought to’ve simply moved on. I really feel just like the lyrics don’t maintain up below scrutiny.”
He referenced ‘4 Levels’ from debut album ‘Undertow’, including: “The way in which I wrote it… I used to be attempting to fucking make a butt intercourse joke and it was dumb. The track’s stunning, what these guys did musically is nice and I feel possibly the melody’s an excellent melody however the phrases are simply dumb. I don’t know what the fuck I used to be pondering.”
Software have not launched an album since 2019’s ‘Worry Inoculum’, however they did tour in late 2025, taking part in a number of dwell deep cuts, in addition to a canopy of Black Sabbath’s ‘Hand Of Doom’.
Keenan and Adam Jones did share an replace on any potential new materials from Software final 12 months too. When requested what they’ve in retailer for 2025, Keenan mentioned: “Writing, I suppose.”
In 2024, Software’s Justin Chancellor spoke to NME about followers’ fanaticism with the band and whether or not new materials might arrive as a sequence of singles.
“It undoubtedly comes on our personal phrases,” he mentioned. “The one stress comes after we announce that we’re engaged on one thing new, as a result of then we’ve to make our personal predictions for when it’ll come out, and clearly you are feeling such as you let individuals down if you happen to don’t launch it in a sure period of time.”
“On the subject of writing new music, we’re conscious that folks don’t handle to remain collectively for so long as we’ve, so the pure proven fact that we’ve made it this far makes us wanting to take it to the subsequent place and create one thing new. Whether or not we’ll be capable to efficiently, who is aware of? We’re fairly positive we will, however Software’s strategy has at all times been experimental, so we by no means fairly know the way it’ll come collectively.”
One Software fan that has been making headlines in American free solo climber Alex Honnold, who efficiently scaled one of many world’s tallest skyscrapers, Taipei 101, whereas listening to the band.
Certainly one of Maynard’s different bands Puscifer, in the meantime, are releasing their new album ‘Regular Isn’t’ on February 6.
