Tool Look to Record New Music in the “Second Half of the Year”
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With Tool on the road during the first several months of 2024, bassist Justin Chancellor expects the band to hit the studio to begin recording a follow-up to 2019’s Fear Inoculum in the “second half of the year.”
Tool kick off a new US arena tour on Wednesday (January 10th) in Baltimore (tickets available here), and then embark on a UK/European outing in late May.
Heavy Consequence recently caught up with Chancellor to talk about his project MTVoid (stay tuned for our full interview with Chancellor and bandmate Peter Mohamed), and he gave us a bit of insight into Tool’s plans for new music.
“Well, there’s a lot to be put together,” Chancellor remarked. “We have, as usual, loads of ideas, loads of stuff that didn’t get used — constantly writing new stuff. I write something, I immediately know it’s for Tool. It sounds the right way.”
The bassist went on to say that the gap between releases should be a significantly shorter than the 13 years between 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum.
He continued, “I’d say by June we’re going to be back home after Europe, and the second half of the year we’re going to get in and give it another go to try and put some of it together. We’re not going to be taking so much time over it if we’re going to do an album. We’re going to figure out how to do it a little bit quicker.”
A few years ago, drummer Danny Carey mentioned that Tool may work on an EP instead of a full-length album. In a new interview with Revolver, he leaves the door open for multiple possibilities, reiterating that the band is without a label right now.
“It’s a really painstaking process that we go through to finish [an album], and get it where we are all completely convicted,” said Carey. “It pays off in the long run because we never really get tired of performing our songs. It gives rise to a vehicle that we can all believe in.”
He added, “Who knows? It could flip-flop and we could just go back to doing an Undertow [type of] record. That’s kind of appealing to me. I always like change, whatever direction it goes.”
Carey concluded, “We’re free agents now. We aren’t signed to a label anymore. We are free to do whatever we want.”
Check back soon for Heavy Consequence‘s full interview with Justin Chancellor and his MTVoid bandmate Peter Mohamed. Pick up tickets to Tool’s upcoming shows here.
Photo Gallery: Tool Play Newark, New Jersey in 2022 (click to expand and scroll through):
Tool Look to Record New Music in the “Second Half of the Year”
Jordan Blum and Heavy Consequence Staff
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