New TOOL album!
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New TOOL album!
According to a posting on TOOL's official web site, Toolband.com, TOOL's new album will be titled "10,000 Days". An early May release is expected.
In a recent interview with Britain's Kerrang! magazine the members of TOOL spoke about the 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes.
"We've all been listening to a lot of MESHUGGAH," admitted guitarist Adam Jones. "I see a lot of them in us and us in them, and they really have a very experimental prog side to them. I don't think it was like, 'Okay, right here were going to play like MESHUGGAH,' but more, 'Oh my God, that's come out a MESHUGGAH moment.'"
"We have the most retarded President we've ever had, and we're frustrated and that's the reason it's a little heavier this time," drummer Danny Carey told Kerrang! "That level of frustration back like when we first got the band together: we were products of that fucking Reagan thing, we were pissed off and bummed out, we had that angst, and now it's coming forth again: like it or not, we're products of our environment. We're pissed off again."
"I think for me, and this is just personally, the last few years have really been crushing," singer Maynard James Keenan told Kerrang! "For me, as an artist, I needed to see on some level if speaking my mind would actually inspire people ? you see the sky falling and you feel like you've got to say something. I think of prior TOOL albums 'AEnema' and 'Lateralus', lyrically, I had this idea of trying to share things and push some kind of higher purpose ? enlightenment, this global consciousness thing ? and everything that's going on nowadays has kind of left me a little disappointed, a little bummed.
"So I think on this album I've talked more about my personal stuff, things that I needed to get off my chest," he added. "It's a little cynical and it's almost like coming from a sad place. There's some hope in it, but it's more back to rock and roll basics, just expressing some very big sadness that's from the gut."
"This is our blues record, were singing the blues!" joked Carey.
"The difference is before, we had that young spunk and we thought we could actually say something and help people realize these things" continued Keenan. "But now, the anger is more of a frustrated anger, and me sitting back and going, 'Okay, I'm going to shut up now, I'm going to stop ranting and trying to be chicken little telling you that the sky is falling, I'm going to just let you guys get hit in the head.'"
Excellent news!
In a recent interview with Britain's Kerrang! magazine the members of TOOL spoke about the 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes.
"We've all been listening to a lot of MESHUGGAH," admitted guitarist Adam Jones. "I see a lot of them in us and us in them, and they really have a very experimental prog side to them. I don't think it was like, 'Okay, right here were going to play like MESHUGGAH,' but more, 'Oh my God, that's come out a MESHUGGAH moment.'"
"We have the most retarded President we've ever had, and we're frustrated and that's the reason it's a little heavier this time," drummer Danny Carey told Kerrang! "That level of frustration back like when we first got the band together: we were products of that fucking Reagan thing, we were pissed off and bummed out, we had that angst, and now it's coming forth again: like it or not, we're products of our environment. We're pissed off again."
"I think for me, and this is just personally, the last few years have really been crushing," singer Maynard James Keenan told Kerrang! "For me, as an artist, I needed to see on some level if speaking my mind would actually inspire people ? you see the sky falling and you feel like you've got to say something. I think of prior TOOL albums 'AEnema' and 'Lateralus', lyrically, I had this idea of trying to share things and push some kind of higher purpose ? enlightenment, this global consciousness thing ? and everything that's going on nowadays has kind of left me a little disappointed, a little bummed.
"So I think on this album I've talked more about my personal stuff, things that I needed to get off my chest," he added. "It's a little cynical and it's almost like coming from a sad place. There's some hope in it, but it's more back to rock and roll basics, just expressing some very big sadness that's from the gut."
"This is our blues record, were singing the blues!" joked Carey.
"The difference is before, we had that young spunk and we thought we could actually say something and help people realize these things" continued Keenan. "But now, the anger is more of a frustrated anger, and me sitting back and going, 'Okay, I'm going to shut up now, I'm going to stop ranting and trying to be chicken little telling you that the sky is falling, I'm going to just let you guys get hit in the head.'"
Excellent news!
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So do you think this album will be chocker block full of tom tom "Jungle Groove" like all the others?
Man that get's boring.
Man that get's boring.
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I like Tool bro, I just get tired if the duggada duggada duggada bakkada duggada duggada............................thing.Ogg wrote:I am hurt. Apparently the new album has a heavier feel. I love the band and wish you could 'get' them Bro'.Walkinghairball wrote:So do you think this album will be chocker block full of tom tom "Jungle Groove" like all the others?
Man that get's boring.
Songs like Prison Sex, Sweat, and Sober.................That's the ones I really like.
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In my opinion the last album 'Lateralus' was/is amazing, few can touch it.Walkinghairball wrote:I like Tool bro, I just get tired if the duggada duggada duggada bakkada duggada duggada............................thing.Ogg wrote:I am hurt. Apparently the new album has a heavier feel. I love the band and wish you could 'get' them Bro'.Walkinghairball wrote:So do you think this album will be chocker block full of tom tom "Jungle Groove" like all the others?
Man that get's boring.
Songs like Prison Sex, Sweat, and Sober.................That's the ones I really like.
You are forgiven WHB.
I was having a simlar discussion with a friend of mine recently. We lamented the loss of Metallica and many others, Guns n Roses being a perfect example, I mean back in the day 'Appetite for Destruction' was simply ferocious then they withered away (albeit via a lengthy pretentious route). Another that springs to mind is Pearl Jam, the first four/five albums are still classic listening but they didnt like selling records did they? so enter a series of medicore non-commercial releases, pah!CygnusX1 wrote:...look at Metallica! I'm surprised people even still GO to their shows...
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GnR is playing NY in May...and from what Ive heard...theres a certain top hatted person, and a certain blonde bass player that are supposed to be in the fold.Ogg wrote:I was having a simlar discussion with a friend of mine recently. We lamented the loss of Metallica and many others, Guns n Roses being a perfect example, I mean back in the day 'Appetite for Destruction' was simply ferocious then they withered away (albeit via a lengthy pretentious route). Another that springs to mind is Pearl Jam, the first four/five albums are still classic listening but they didnt like selling records did they? so enter a series of medicore non-commercial releases, pah!CygnusX1 wrote:...look at Metallica! I'm surprised people even still GO to their shows...