New Tool record end of year?

and modular synth stuff

  On 1/12/2019 at 2:54 AM, Gyroscopic said:

 

  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.

 

  On 1/12/2019 at 5:18 PM, azatoth said:

and modular synth stuff

and that accordion 

I’m sure this one will be on vinyl at least. Maybe they will milk it and repress Aemina finally as well

^Aenima might could do with a remaster: I haven't listened to this on headphones in years, but Aenima's recording/mixing occasionally sounds a bit cock-rock. Vocals and guitars all up front and loud, drums a little too reverby and often without much punch or volume. Guitar tone on the 'heavy' stuff doesn't mix well, gives a really stark contrast between the super clean drums and vocals and that thick mid-dy distorted thing they got. Some songs are better than others at least, but yeah. Probably sounds about as good as you'd expect anything from 1995 to sound though. They don't seem the type to retouch their old albums like that but who knows, maybe.

I quite like the sound of Aenima. It’s not as good as Lateralus but far better than 10,000 Days and Undertow

Yeah I love the production on Aenima.  Very unique sound.  I think the brittle one-guitar-near-the-centre thing in a lot of sections adds a certain cold, unsettling quality that is really perfect for the music.  It's one of the more interesting productions from that era.  Usually with rock/metal albums of that stature it's a fairly predictable left/right hard panned stereo wall of sound for all heavy guitars.  They tried something different to achieve the "punch", it's a lot more interesting as a result.  Plus the amount of cool, different guitar tones on any one particular song off that album is really fun to hear.  They tried a different tone/approach for almost every section. 

Lateralus sounds bigger, more polished, nicer, etc., but it's a lot less interesting to me... just from a sonics perspective.  Though I think the production is fucking amazing on it.  Drum sound especially - possibly my favorite drum sound on a rock record.  The sound of that album is very, very cohesive the whole way through.

this is very exciting,

it is?

  On 1/16/2019 at 12:46 AM, usagi said:

it is?

ii st?

its

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/01/new-tool-album-mid-april/

OOF

Danny didnt specify which April though...

  On 1/28/2019 at 10:39 PM, colunga said:

Danny didnt specify which April though...

flol

Mid April's just in time for another classic April fool's "just kidding" announcement.

I’ll believe when it’s in my hands

Well it seems they updated the bands homepage with some new trippy art... I hope the skeletons and shit mean they're back to being darker and heavier again...

https://www.toolband.com/

It's looked like that for ages hasn't it? Maybe I'm just imagining that to be the typs Tool look.

  On 1/29/2019 at 2:20 AM, ghOsty said:

Well it seems they updated the bands homepage with some new trippy art... I hope the skeletons and shit mean they're back to being darker and heavier again...

 

https://www.toolband.com/

That art is from 2006 or so

  On 1/29/2019 at 1:09 AM, jules said:

I’ll believe when it’s in my hands

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:25 PM, D4M0 said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 1:09 AM, jules said:

I’ll believe when it’s in my ears.

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:56 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:25 PM, D4M0 said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 1:09 AM, jules said:

I’ll believe when it’s in my pants.

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:57 PM, olo said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:56 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 6:25 PM, D4M0 said:

 

  On 1/29/2019 at 1:09 AM, jules said:

I’ll believe it.