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Tool - To Enter The Studio This Spring


Tool bassist Justin Chancellor confirmed in a new interview with Mexico's 'Summa Inferno' that the band will finally hit the studio within the next three months to work on new material for the follow-up to 2019's Fear Inoculum, indicating that it could be released around 2026 as opposed to another 13-year break between records.

About Tool's upcoming plans, Justin Chancellor said: " When we get back from [our] trip [to Mexico and South America in March] — I think it's only three weeks we're gonna be [there] — but we have already shared with each other a lot of these new ideas, but when we get back, we're actually gonna dedicate the next three months after that in the studio to organizing our ideas."

Chancellor further added: "There's a lot of stages in the process. And much of it is just every day — we all have ideas and when they're good, when we like them, we kind of save them or memorize them. But then the really difficult process is when you actually get together and make decisions about how it's going to end up. And that becomes a little more mathematical, a little more like in the classroom — there's a blackboard and there's numbers and you have to make decisions. So that's the stage we haven't completely pulled off yet, but we're committed to do that when we get back. Before the summer, we're gonna spend those few months really organizing our ideas. We already know what we like. We've all shared our individual ideas with each other, and we have a really good pile of stuff. You have to make those decisions, and you have to kind of wrestle with each other a bit to get to that next stage. And then you have to record it, which is a whole another thing as well. You go into the studio, and you have to — it's like a pregnancy almost. When you go to the studio, you have to make this final decision of how it's gonna sound and how you're gonna play it, and it's gonna live like that forever. So it's a real delicate thing to be able to pull off. And I don't think it's unreasonable that we take a long time at all. I think that's only natural, and that's why I'm proud of it, because it was worked on really hard."

Justin was also asked if new music from Tool could be released by next year or two, and this was his reply: "Yeah, well, the other thing is the climate of releasing music has completely changed, especially when you take a long time to make new music. It's always a bit different when it comes out. So, we've talked about releasing a single, just one song— we could do that. We could also release an EP. And I think because we have such a dedicated fan base, everyone's gonna be up for it. They'll all be interested, whatever the way it comes out. So we might not necessarily have to really wrestle out a whole album. We talked about the option of just maybe doing it a little differently and doing a song at a time. Or you could release a single and then another single, another single, and then after a year of releasing singles, you could put them all together on a record and make that an album. I'm not really answering your question fully, but it doesn't really have any rules when you're making music. We're just kind of making it up. But I can tell you that we absolutely have to write new music to continue doing what we're doing. We wouldn't be happy just to just sit on our laurels and play the same stuff over and over again. We really want to create new music to be able to continue doing what we love. So it's coming. Trust me."




Source: youtube.com
Band profile: Tool
Posted: 19.02.2025 by Metal God


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19.02.2025 - 20:13
Thryce
Retired Staff
Elite
Well, the last time I got all hyped up for a new Tool album, I aged a whole decade before they finally released it. So yeah, let's call me cautiously, half-heartedly, borderline skeptically stoked for this one
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19.02.2025 - 20:18
Cynic Metalhead
Ambrish Saxena
Sadly, Tool is becoming a Wintersun.
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20.02.2025 - 07:55
I'll believe it when I'm listening to it
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20.02.2025 - 13:26
Vellichor
Nice! If they’re entering the studio it sounds like they’re pretty serious so I’d say we get the album no later than 2035
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21.02.2025 - 01:54
liveordie
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 19.02.2025 at 20:18

Sadly, Tool is becoming a Wintersun.

I think Wintersun became Tool
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22.02.2025 - 17:21
Metal God
Contributor
Written by liveordie on 21.02.2025 at 01:54

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 19.02.2025 at 20:18

Sadly, Tool is becoming a Wintersun.

I think Wintersun became Tool

Either way, Wintersun is the Finnish version of Tool, or Tool is the American version of Wintersun
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23.02.2025 - 02:42
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Why does the band link in the text link to Emperor?
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25.02.2025 - 14:07
Hrodebert
Written by Vellichor on 20.02.2025 at 13:26

Nice! If they’re entering the studio it sounds like they’re pretty serious so I’d say we get the album no later than 2035

too funny, that was the exact year I was going to say I will be expecting the new album hahahahahaahahahahaha
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25.02.2025 - 14:11
Paz
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Elite
Written by LeKiwi on 23.02.2025 at 02:42

Why does the band link in the text link to Emperor?

I was going to say that lol
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25.02.2025 - 15:21
Metal God
Contributor
Written by Paz on 25.02.2025 at 14:11

Written by LeKiwi on 23.02.2025 at 02:42

Why does the band link in the text link to Emperor?

I was going to say that lol

It's fixed now.

A new Emperor album would have been interesting though.
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25.02.2025 - 19:17
BetulaObscura
Tool and the new album? They should finish it within a decade.
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02.03.2025 - 18:36
Autistic.Pagan
I was stoked as hell until these comments hit me like a brick....
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