New Tool record end of year?

  On 1/4/2019 at 5:20 PM, olo said:

Keenan tweeted, "Update- Final vocals tracked MONTHS ago. Then U.S.-UK-Euro run w #APC. If Tool all inst are tracked, long process of Mixing now. Meanwhile write/film/track w @puscifer for #puscifer2020 & troll the band FBs with wine posts. #funnyshit #whileyouwerewhiningiwasworking"

In other words, it'll be another 6 months of mixing and production edits...

I'm SO ready to be underwhelmed...

My guess is June as well.

Seems like their hand is kind of forced to go with spotify and shit now too

I actually watched a Fantano video where he talks about how Tool doesn't seem to have any interest in having younger music fans check out their stuff, since it's not available on any streaming platforms. This might signal a DGAF proggier direction for this album, if they keep it that way, since they only care about their old fans in theory. Possibly?

But I thought it was an interesting point. I remember Prince was against his music being available on anything for a while. This makes no sense to me, like an author going around and taking all of his books away from libraries so less people can read them. 

Their old excuse for not being on streaming was to encourage people to listen to albums as albums, iirc. Can't blame them at all for that imo. It's their music, they can do whatever they want.

  On 1/8/2019 at 2:51 AM, Candiru said:

This might signal a DGAF proggier direction for this album, if they keep it that way, since they only care about their old fans in theory. Possibly?

Honestly I think it'd be the opposite. Their music is way less proggy/complex than a lot of the current prog metal (cf. Haken, Periphery etc) so I'm prepared for it to be kinda.. boring? 

I hope Adam Jones incorporates a single maj7 chord somewhere.  Just one.  As long as that happens, I'm happy.

  On 1/8/2019 at 6:21 AM, modey said:

 

  On 1/8/2019 at 2:51 AM, Candiru said:

This might signal a DGAF proggier direction for this album, if they keep it that way, since they only care about their old fans in theory. Possibly?

Honestly I think it'd be the opposite. Their music is way less proggy/complex than a lot of the current prog metal (cf. Haken, Periphery etc) so I'm prepared for it to be kinda.. boring? 

 

Like others, I'm fully prepared to be underwhelmed. They took far too long to release the mediocre 10,000 Days and I don't see this being any better. They're stuck in a certain time and style. 

My gut agrees but I’m holding out...

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen

Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end
Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong, ultimatum prison cell

Saturn ascends
Choose one or ten
Hang on or be humbled again

Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end
Saturn ascends, comes round again
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten
Ignorant to the damage done

Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate
Desperate to control all and everything
Unable to forgive these scarlet lettermen

Wear the grudge like a crown
Desperate to control
Unable to forgive and sinking deeper

Defining
Confining
And sinking deeper
Controlling
Defining
And we're sinking deeper

Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent

Saturn comes back around. 
Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you choose to let this go
Choose to let this go

Give away the stone
Let the oceans take and trans mutate this cold and fated anchor
Give away the stone
Let the waters kiss and trans mutate these leaden grudges into gold

Let go

No streaming was likely due to the complexity of the ongoing lawsuit, which I think just ended last year or so.  From their standpoint, if they knew they were only a year or so out from a new release, it makes sense to hold out from moving their entire catalog to streaming. FWIW, all the APC and Puscifer albums are on Spotify so I'm guessing they'll make a pretty big deal out of it all.

If I'm gonna make any hopes for this record, I hope it's sludgier rather than overly-proggy, like a more matured Undertow combined with some of that Lateralus flair.

I'm very ready to be disappointed though.

i bet it will be pretty good to excellent. 

I love Aenima thru 10k Days and I really like Undertow, so I see no reason not to think this will be a great bunch of lads

  On 1/9/2019 at 5:40 AM, ghOsty said:

If I'm gonna make any hopes for this record, I hope it's sludgier rather than overly-proggy, like a more matured Undertow combined with some of that Lateralus flair.

 

I'm very ready to be disappointed though.

This... would love them to capture some of their earlier darkness and anger.. cant see it happening though.

having said that I do think it will still be pretty good, 10000 days wasn't their best but its still a very enjoyable album and has a few of all my time fav songs by them (Jambi & Rosetta Stoned) 

I am fully expecting a double album. I think they know they are up against a wall and have to deliver. I think there will be tons of tracks like rosetta stoned. I think Maynard's anger is all gone but he can still deliver thought-provoking stuff these days. Im sure the music is going to sound like tool, not really expecting any updates. There will be some nasty shit for sure.

there was like a 15 second clip that some musican friend took of them jamming this year. i can't find it now. it sounded nice and heavy

uh-oh

finally PROOF that MAYNERD is the best member of TTOOL, actually the only good. the others are PLEBS he should kick them out and finish the tool alb ALONE.

UGH

Who cares what some nobodies on twitter are talking about though? Or their fans for that matter.

Yea, either way, this is undoubtedly the last TOOL album...

it better have polyrhythms

I'm mostly looking forward to whatever Danny has come up with...

  On 1/11/2019 at 3:02 PM, Obel said:

Who cares what some nobodies on twitter are talking about though? Or their fans for that matter.

The shade of it all

  On 1/11/2019 at 8:19 PM, azatoth said:

I'm mostly looking forward to whatever Danny has come up with...

Hoping for some crazy Mandala shit on this album.