Maynard James Keenan has stated 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 Experience! 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 basic ‘Stinkfist’.
Keenan added: “There’s some outdated Software songs that I don’t like enjoying them as a result of I really feel like I failed them. They’re well-liked 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 underneath scrutiny.”
He referenced ‘4 Levels’ from debut album ‘Undertow’, including: “The best way 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 believe perhaps 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 ‘Concern Inoculum’, however they did tour in late 2025, enjoying a number of reside 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 stated: “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 collection of singles.
“It undoubtedly comes on our personal phrases,” he stated. “The one strain comes after we announce that we’re engaged on one thing new, as a result of then we have now to make our personal predictions for when it’ll come out, and clearly you are feeling such as you let folks down in case you don’t launch it in a sure period of time.”
“In terms of writing new music, we’re conscious that folks don’t handle to remain collectively for so long as we have now, so the pure incontrovertible fact that we’ve made it this far makes us desirous to take it to the following place and create one thing new. Whether or not we’ll have the ability to efficiently, who is aware of? We’re fairly certain we will, however Software’s method has all the time 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.
Considered one of Maynard’s different bands Puscifer, in the meantime, are releasing their new album ‘Regular Isn’t’ on February 6.
