During an appearance on 'The Vinyl Guide' podcast, Tool bassist Justin Chancellor confirmed that the band is planning on going to the studio next year to commence making the follow-up to 2019's Fear Inoculum.

Chancellor said: "We've got many ideas cooking. We haven't recorded anything yet. But we're quite busy until - I guess until after the spring of next year touring. So once that's done, we're gonna get back in the studio and knuckle down and put some of it together. We've already had a few pretty decent sessions of writing. So we've got the ingredients in place. We've just gotta really bang it out and spend that time when we're not touring."

When asked if there are ideas that were recorded during songwriting sessions for previous albums that are yet to see the light of day, Justin said: "Yeah, tons from the last album. We have tons of ideas, but not recorded to the standard we'd put on an album. Just kind of, I'd say, lots of demoed stuff. And then just tons of ideas just kind of stored away."

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