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It was Halloween, and the news out of New York was unfittingly horrible. A monster, a truck, innocent civilians, another atrocity from the New Normal. Because that was just the one day. Days later, there was the church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. And before that, and after that, a Groundhog Day of horror-news. An endlessly repeating cycle.

So when A Perfect Circle released a new song called The Doomed (“Bless the slothful, the wrathful, the vain … What of the pious, the pure of heart, the peaceful? … All doomed”), you could hear a very large tuning fork pinging its resonant message with a forlorn plea for … what? Decency?

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“I can see that,” says guitarist Billy Howerdel. He doesn’t write the lyrics — singer Maynard James Keenan does — but let’s say the music he wrote suits them. “I look at (the song) as timely … but unfortunately, it was probably timely 300 years ago. Unfortunately, perhaps (it’s) more potent than ever.