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. They’re right when they say you don’t realize how much you love something until it’s gone. #tool2019 /mZMCwqL0pl- TOOL effing TOOL August 5, 2019 Links will be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, August 6th on our Band URL and Social Accts. Title Track and Album Pre-Order Wednesday August 7th. That’s right you guys-I think this is bad news.įEAR INOCULUM. I was stunned, not just by excitement, but of fear. Then in late July, Maynard James Keenan announced the real title of an actual album: Fear Inoculum. A few shows later on this same summer tour, they announced a new album along with a release date: August 30, 2019. Most Tool fans rolled their eyes and joked that the next two songs will probably be done in 2050. This is jaw dropping considering in the last 13 years I’ve seen more American presidents than new Tool songs. 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 2006 (for the record, I have not listened to low-quality fan recordings of these new tracks, and I don't want to).
I respect that, but at this point Tupac has released more material dead than Tool has alive. It’s done when it’s ready.” Fair enough, Adam. There has been 13 years of music journalists asking when the fuck this next album is coming out and guitarist Adam Jones replying with his favorite quote about the creative process: “It’s not ready when it’s done.
They have toured almost every year, but haven't released any new material-not a song for a movie soundtrack or a random single just for the hell of it. Since Tool's creation in 1990 their discography is as follows: The second joke is about how long it takes them to release albums. We looked down on those radio friendly bands. This was a point of pride for fans back in the late ‘90s. One of the two longest running jokes about the band is the length of their songs-the shortest clocking in at 6 minutes and the longest at 14 and change. I’m writing this because I don’t want them to release it.
However, I’m not writing this because I’m excited about their upcoming new album-Tool’s first in 13 years, due out at the end of August. Anyway, if I hear from Nick I’ll give you a call officer.” He constantly tells me to listen to their albums, but they were only available on CDs until this week. I didn’t know they were around anymore either. Yeah, the band that sang that “Sober” song in the ‘90s. He has a weird obsession with coffee and a crazy-weird obsession with that band Tool. “Nick is a comedian has been his whole adult life. If someone were to elevator pitch me to a stranger it would go like this:
I own all their albums on every available form of media, have 20 plus concert tees, a giant tattoo of the eye from the Aenima album on my inner arm, and I’ve flown to five states and logged over 4,000 driving miles to see them (which is more than I've done to visit my own family). I am a devoted, lifelong, unapologetic fan of the band Tool.