“The Doomed” by A Perfect Circle

"The Doomed" ended A Perfect Circle's long quiet spell in October 2017. It was their first single in four years, the last having been "By and Down" from the 2013 greatest-hits set Three Sixty, and the opening shot from their fourth studio album, Eat the Elephant, which arrived in 2018. The band teased it with a silent, fifteen-second clip that showed only their name and the title, and music writers were left guessing whether it was a song, an album or something else entirely.

Billy Howerdel wrote the music and plays guitar, keyboards and bass, Maynard James Keenan wrote the words and sings, and Jeff Friedl drums. Howerdel, Keenan and David Sardy produced it, and Sardy mixed it. It landed just before the second leg of the band's North American tour and climbed to 16 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.