We Have A Couple Of Solid Skeletons Of Songs Waiting To Be Finalized

Tool has fairly vocal about new materials recently. Vocalist Maynard James Keenan commented that the band can’t take another 14 years to make another record, whereas drummer Danny Carey would not thoughts mixing things up a bit.

Now in a brand new interview with Kerrang!, bassist Justin Chancellor commented that Tool is legitimately engaged on the follow-up to Worry Inoculum. Chancellor famous that Tool has some skeletons of some songs ready to be completed, and that the band plans to proceed working each on and off tour.

“There’s completely tons and tons of laborious drives filled with stuff,” mentioned Chancellor. “Some concepts return to earlier than Worry Inoculum which are simply easy riffs that we by no means integrated right into a music. However generally that is a bit like grinding the gears once you’re attempting to resurrect or revisit them, so it is actually interesting to work on the most recent stuff. Every time we come collectively, individuals even have so many new concepts after which we’ll spend all day enjoying them.

“We’re continuously introducing new stuff however then generally that’ll marry with the outdated materials. We have been writing for the final couple of weeks, assembly a few occasions every week – we have had some actually good classes, and lots of it has been model new. We have already got a few strong, what I’d say are, skeletons of songs ready to be finalised.”

On their writing course of, Chancellor commented that Tool is attempting to vary up their course of a bit bit: “We’re doing what we are able to to try to give a recent strategy to the writing expertise, and a part of that’s attempting to not overdo it so we’re not banging our heads in opposition to the wall.”

Now if we may simply get those vinyl reissues sometime soon, we might be all set.