A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle(完美集团乐队),Virgin旗下一支风格为Alt Metal的乐队。其首张专辑《Mer de Noms》(人海茫茫)推出的第一周便旋风般登上美国公告牌专辑排行榜第四位，创下摇滚团体处女专辑首周进榜最高名次的骄人纪录。但若了解过乐队五位成员的资料,你会发现,有这样的成绩这绝非是一个偶然。
 
乐队的两个灵魂人物----主唱兼词作者Maynard James Keenan以及吉他手兼曲作者Billy Howerdel都并非新人。前者是在著名的Lollapalooza巡演中一举成名，拥有多白金畅销专辑的工业金属名团Tool的主唱，早已拥有众多追随者.而后者曾是Smashing Pumpkins、Nine Inch Nails、Tool、Fishbone等美国大牌另类摇滚团体的吉他技术人员，才华和经验毋庸质疑。再加上同样有多支乐队经验的吉他手Troy Van Leeuwen(Failure乐队/Enemy乐队),出身于Guns n 'Roses，曾参与《Juliana Hatfield》和《Chris Cornell》的辑制作工作的鼓手Josh Frees(Vandals/Guns n 'Roses乐队)以及拥有古典音乐功底，外型美艳的女小提琴手兼贝司手Paz Lenchantin(Zwan/Queens Of The Stone Ages乐队)。可以说A Perfect Circle具有所有优秀团体应具备的优秀质素。
 
A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. The original incarnation of the band also included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Tim Alexander on drums, with Josh Freese being the band's primary drummer after the band's initial round of touring prior to their first album. The latest lineup features Puscifer and Ashes Divide bassist Matt McJunkins, former guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins, James Iha. Despite having a varied cast since inception, the stylistic content of the songs has remained consistent with Howerdel as composer, and Keenan penning the lyrics and melodies.
 
A Perfect Circle has released three albums: Mer de Noms, Thirteenth Step and eMOTIVe. A CD-DVD set, aMOTION, has also been released and contains thirteen music videos in addition to a number of song remixes created by Danny Lohner, Robert Del Naja and other artists.
 
The band went into hiatus in 2004. Since then band members have worked on other projects, the most notable being Keenan's work on Tool's 2006 album 10,000 Days and Howerdel's founding of the band Ashes Divide. In a September 2008 interview, Keenan announced that he and Howerdel have been working on new material, officially ending the group's hiatus. However, the band did not start to really become active until almost two years later, in September 2010, when the band announced touring and the release of new music which may or may not be in the form of a new album.& While the band has toured and worked on new music on and off, future plans on releasing new music are unclear, and no new studio recordings have been released since the band's hiatus.
 
On November 19, 2013, the band will release a greatest hits album entitled Three Sixty, which will contain one singular new song, &By and Down&, and on November 2013, the band will release a box-set entitled A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo.
 
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres: Alternative rock, alternative metal
Years active: 1999–2004, 2010–present
Labels: EMI, Virgin
Associated acts: Tool, Ashes Divide, Nine Inch Nails, Tapeworm
Members: Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel, James Iha, Matt McJunkins, Jeff Friedl
Past members: Paz Lenchantin, Troy Van Leeuwen, Tim Alexander, Josh Freese, Jeordie White, Danny Lohner
 
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