Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with 93X, A Perfect Circle guitarist Billy Howerdel discussed the band’s plans for new music beyond their recent single “Starless.” According to him, “there’s more underway.”

Howerdel said the following:

“There’s more [music] underway. And in the spirit of soft deadlines, I’m not gonna give you the date, but we’re working toward something.”

He continued:

“We’re on tour. It’s hard to get solid things done when you’re out here. I sometimes optimistically think that’s gonna happen, and, like today, we’re six shows in, so we’re about two weeks in, and this is the first day I really slept, even though I might not look like it. I just slept, went to the gym, ate a meal, got on with you, and it’s not been like that. So to get real cracking on to the new album, it’s gonna be… I need a couple more of these days to line up over the next tour.”

He also added the following about his working relationship with vocalist Maynard James Keenan:

“I feel more creative with him [than I do with other musicians]. I don’t know. I mean, you’d have to ask Maynard, but I feel like when it’s time to work, it’s time to work for him. Or it’s time to fuck around and just shoot the shit, then that’s what we’re gonna do then. But when it’s time to work, we’re kind of in it. And it’s not super serious all the time, but it’s focused. And he’s got a great work ethic. I don’t know anyone — I mean, he’s at least in the top three hardest-working people I know that have real vision, conviction, a vision that he’s gonna execute and be tenacious about it. And he’s like that with music. Once the train starts rolling, it, it’s rolling. Then that feels good. I don’t anticipate it going like, ‘Eh, I don’t know. This is kind of softly not going the way we want it to be.’ No, we’re gonna figure it out. We’re gonna set soft deadlines, which I guess they can be hard deadlines, but our soft deadlines are pretty intense. They’re meant to be hit. Anything could happen, but when we’re underway, it just feels, like, ‘Okay, we’re moving in the right direction.’ Now, you can’t force the greatest idea to come out, but you can get yourself motivated to go, ‘If I don’t hit this deadline, then bad shit’s gonna happen.’ So it’s a fire lit under your ass.”

[via Blabbermouth]