Tool will hit the studio in April of this year
Veteran prog-metallers Tool will begin recording sessions for their new album in April, it has been revealed through separate posts on band members’ social media accounts.
Fans have waited over a decade for new music from the much-loved band, whose first full-length album Undertow was released in 1993.
Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan tweeted today that the new set of songs had been completed, and that his vocal parts were completed on all but one of them.
https://twitter.com/mjkeenan/status/964654030843604992
The subject of Tool’s extensive hiatus has long been the subject of frustration from fans; something which Keenan references to with his hashtag ‘#whileyouwerewhiningiwasworking’.
Indeed, MJK has kept himself busy in the interim since 10,000 Days, with his various side projects including A Perfect Circle, who will release a new album on April 20th of this year.
While MJK’s tweet didn’t reveal specifics about any kind of timeframe, a follow-up post from Tool guitarist Adam Jones went into a little more detail.
In his post, Jones confirmed that the material for the new album was done, and that they had spent a studio session performing it for an exclusive audience comprising of Sebastian Bach from Skid Row and Buzz from The Melvins. He also mentioned that recording of the new material will begin in April.
Jones was responding to a post from Sebastian Bach’s official Instagram account, in which he said of the new material “This is progressive metal at its most atmospheric”, and that no song was shorter than 7 minutes, while others were around 20 minutes long.
The wait for the new Tool album has not quite reached the level of Chinese Democracy, the album that Guns ‘n’ Roses fans waited 15 years for, but considering that Tool’s last album came in 2006 and we are now in 2018, the time difference isn’t all that much.
However, one can’t help but feel that Tool are much less likely to disappoint.
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