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Welcome to Riffology, where a GenX and a Millennial talk about the albums from their youth. Itโ€™s more fun than it soundsโ€ฆ

RIFF066 – A Perfect Circle – Mer De Noms
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Riffology โ€” A Perfect Circle: Mer de Noms

Maynard James Keenan takes a detour from Tool, rents a room to guitar wizard Billy Howerdel, and they accidentally build the most elegant โ€œsuper-groupโ€ debut of the millennium.

Neil and Chris dig into the Mer de Noms mythos:

  • how a guitar techโ€™s home demos became a platinum record
  • the secret names and symbols hidden in the artwork
  • Josh Freeseโ€™s drums that sound like they were recorded in a cathedral
  • label execs wondering where the hits were

Itโ€™s part shoegaze sรฉance, part hard-rock exorcism, and entirely the reason you canโ€™t pronounce the album title the same way twice.

Why listen?
Because you want to hear two music nerds gleefully unpick the moment art-rock, metal and late-night L.A. wine bars collidedโ€”and somehow made radio hits.

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โ€ข Blog & show notes: https://riffology.co/2025/09/29/the-making-of-mer-de-noms-by-a-perfect-circle/
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RIFF065 – Deftones – White Pony
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RIFF064 – Anthrax – Sound of White Noise
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RIFF063 – Anthrax – Persistence of Time
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RIFF062 – Soulfly – Soulfly
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RIFF061 – Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
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RIFF060 – Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
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RIFF059 – Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
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RIFF058 – Carcass – Heartwork
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RIFF057 – Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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