This 13 year drought turned around on May 5 in Jacksonville, Florida when Tool played two brand new songs live in concert for the first time since for the record, I have not listened to low-quality fan recordings of these new tracks, and I don't want to. Most Tool fans rolled their eyes and joked that the next two songs will probably be done in We were wrong. A few shows later on this same summer tour, they announced a new album along with a release date: August 30, I felt excitement and nervousness.
I was stunned, not just by excitement, but of fear. For years I thought I was missing music from my favorite band, but all these years I was getting something invaluable: a live experience locked in time. A safe haven. A Tool concert means instant access to the best memories, none of them clouded by those last few shitty albums you wish never came out or the young new fans that came with those shitty albums and spent the entire show getting obliterated and talking during every song except the latest single.
We stand and wait; the outside world paused and forgotten. The house lights go out. We collectively fill that darkness with a meditative calm followed by blood-curdling screams of carnal ecstasy before a minute time capsule of explosive visual and sonic bliss whisks us away to a transcendent state of genre bending art metal.
That was an experience safe from outsiders, one preserved for what seemed like eternity as Tool took more than a decade to add to their discography. The new album was some Orwellian goal, glimmering in the distance, non-existent, but just powerful enough to direct our emotions toward one committed outcome. But, that all changes this August—that conserved musical relationship gets invaded by newness and outside interlopers. And it began on August 2, when Tool made their entire discography available on major streaming platforms and iTunes.
I already know the feeling. The joke does not register with all of their fans. This, it should be noted, is the first rumor on this timeline that is perhaps true, as Fear Inoculum took the band around six years to make.
In a video on his Facebook, Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee said that Tool were in the studio next to his. In a Reddit thread that got picked up by Ultimate Guitar , it was posited that Tool had a double album named Decem already mixed, and that it was scheduled to come out in the fall of The rumor even came with a tracklisting that clocked the album in at over two hours.
Maynard, in his infinite wisdom, responded with a succinct hashtag:. A graphic appeared on Twitter and Reddit that a massive announcement about the new Tool album would occur on the Adult Swim show World Peace. The whole thing was, predictably, a hoax, and the album continued to be unannounced. In an interview on the MetalSucks podcast , Danny Carey said that the album would be out in These cookies do not store any personal information.
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In the interim, Tool could not release any new music. All they could do was tour — and tour they did because the legal bills escalated into the millions. It was the only way they could make money. But then, a breakthrough. In March , a judge ruled that the insurance company had no case, freeing Tool to release new music. A new tour followed in early Still no new music. When I asked Keenan about the status of Tool, he dodged the issue, saying that he comes in with the vocals and lyrics after everyone else has finished the music.
Meanwhile, there were more record label shenanigans. Zomba was sold to to BMG. But then there was an un-merging and the label was renamed Sony Music Entertainment. The upshot of all that was that Dissectional is once again under the umbrella of Sony. Alan Cross is a broadcaster with World Canada Local. Tool released an album after more than 13 years — Alan Cross explains why it took so long. Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National.
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