 In 2004 , Reznor announced that Tapeworm was " dead for the foreseeable future " , citing label issues , Keenan 's A Perfect Circle obligations , and Reznor 's own waning enthusiasm for the project . Reznor summarized the project 's demise by saying " the bottom line is this : if the music had been great , all of this probably could have been worked out . " During an interview with digg founder Kevin Rose in 2009 , Reznor further commented that he thought the material was not as good as could have been given his and Keenan 's respective backgrounds and it was unlikely that the material would ever surface , but went on to say that he would like for the two of them to work together again at some point in the future . 
