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Post by Red Dog on Feb 28, 2006 19:28:49 GMT -5
Well the new Tool album will hopefully soon be upon us. Rumor has it that the album will drop May 2nd. I'm definitely looking forward to this and will not miss their tour which should also hit later on this year. And to stir up the rumor mill myself, this is a supposed official document which contains the track list of the new, apparently self-titled album: img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/myluciddesign/untitleddocument.jpgJust in case this gets taken down for whatever reason, the supposed track list is as follows: 01 Symmetrical 02 Inertia 03 Luminesce Kaon 04 Vanity 05 Antediluvian 06 Nevus 07 Paramnesia 08 Hyparxis 09 Mal de Mer 10 Dynasty 11 Idiosyncratic Now keep in mind Tool is known for purposely trying to fool it's fans (and more over, the media) by giving out false information about any upcoming releases. Alot of people seem to be of the opinion that this "memo" is fake and could be a plant by the band. Is it a hoax? I guess we'll find out shortly. Anybody else looking forward to this?
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Post by gots0 on Mar 1, 2006 11:10:13 GMT -5
I am for sure looking forward to some new Tool.
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Post by Red Dog on Mar 1, 2006 15:54:35 GMT -5
Well, at least you're cool, Gots. ;D
Here's a copy of an article that came out in the March issue of the UK's "Kerrang!" magazine. Pretty good read.
"Tool are the final headline act to be announced for this year's Download festival. The three day-event, which takes place at Donington Park on June 9,10, and 11, will see the enigmatic L.A. art-metallers closing the proceedings on the Friday evening on the main stage. It will be the band's first UK appearance since 2002.
"We're really excited, " says bassist Justin Chancellor. "It's a huge honour for us to be asked to close Friday night at the horny mother of English rock festivals. I always imagined playing Donington as a kid, so I won't be taking this opportunity lightly. This is the kind of experience we've been patiently working towards - can't wait. See all you bastards there!"
Tool are gearing up to return with their first new collection of material since 2001's gargantuan 'Lateralus'. Kerrang! was granted an exclusive listening session to the just-completed, as yet-untitled fourth album, which is due out May, and can reveal that anyone expecting the shadowy Californian quartet to have gone soft with age willl be sorely disappointed. True to form, Tool's upcoming opus is a 77-minute prog-metal odyssey, packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the bands trademark, eerie interludes. Its also arguably their heaviest, most punishing material since their 1993 breakthrough album 'Undertow'.
The upcoming 11-track album has certainly been the bands most laborious and challenging record to complete, taking a mammoth five years to write (some of the material stems from pre-Lateralus sessions), during which Keenan recorded and toured with his other band, A Perfect Circle. Tool also spent five months, in the company of QOTSA/Melvins engineer Joe Barresi, in three different L.A. studios over autumn 2005 recording it.
"We've all been listening to a lot of Meshuggah" admits guitrist 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 dont think it was like, 'Okay right here were going to play like Meshuggah', but more, 'Oh my God, thats come out a Messhugah 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" reveals drummer Danny Carey. "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."
No stranger to weaving social and political frustrations into his tortuously articulate lyrics, singer MJK who released the politically-motivated covers album, 'eMOTIVEe' with APC in 2004, has chosen another approach this time around.
"I think for me, and this is just personally, the last few years have really been crushing" Keenan confesses. "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 'Ænima' 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 adds. "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 experessing some very big sadness thats from the gut."
"This is our blues record, we're singing the blues!" jokes Carey.
"The difference is before, we had that young spunk and we thought we could actually say something and help people realise these things, " continues Keenan. "But now, the anger is more of a frustrated anger, and me sitting back and going, 'Okay, im 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'."
Tool's as-yet-untitled album is due to hit shelves in May.[/b]
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Post by jainitai on Mar 1, 2006 16:01:54 GMT -5
Sweet article. Makes me geeked for the new album!
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Post by underw0rld on Mar 1, 2006 16:51:55 GMT -5
I am for sure looking forward to some new Tool. you touched my what?
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Post by smile4chaos on Mar 1, 2006 16:59:24 GMT -5
i'm looking forward to it, perfect circle does not do it for me, but this album should kick ass.
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Post by smile4chaos on Mar 1, 2006 17:00:04 GMT -5
has anyone heard any of the stuff maynard did with trent reznor for the tapeworm thing besides the track on the last pc album?
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Post by Red Dog on Mar 1, 2006 17:10:23 GMT -5
has anyone heard any of the stuff maynard did with trent reznor for the tapeworm thing besides the track on the last pc album? Nah, the only Tapeworm song I have is a bootleg of "Vacant" that APC performed live a few years ago (which is "Passive" now on APC's eMOTIVe album). Other than that, I've never heard anything else. I believe Mr. Faust once said he had some Tapeworm tracks. I'd love to hear them!
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Post by smile4chaos on Mar 1, 2006 20:13:32 GMT -5
i have a few but there really low quality, some are good, some are bad. maynard was only on about three that i can find.
and the final version that was on emotive sucked pretty much
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Post by Red Dog on Mar 1, 2006 20:22:46 GMT -5
i have a few but there really low quality, some are good, some are bad. maynard was only on about three that i can find. Any chance you could hook me up?
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Post by gots0 on Mar 2, 2006 14:51:08 GMT -5
I am for sure looking forward to some new Tool. you touched my what? Hey for a friend...
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Post by smile4chaos on Mar 2, 2006 17:25:14 GMT -5
i have a few but there really low quality, some are good, some are bad. maynard was only on about three that i can find. Any chance you could hook me up? Yeah let me find it, and i'll send you a copy.
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Post by Red Dog on Mar 2, 2006 17:28:07 GMT -5
Any chance you could hook me up? Yeah let me find it, and i'll send you a copy. Cool.
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Post by Red Dog on Mar 3, 2006 18:19:29 GMT -5
P.S. - I hope you're not going to be like Tomokato, smile4chaos. 3 months later and still no Pink Floyd[/color] bootlegs for me!
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Post by uglyknuckles on Mar 3, 2006 19:54:08 GMT -5
You know, I too will be getting the new TOOL. I've been a fan since my truncated 12 grade year in 1992.
But I gotta say it; was anybody else disappointed in Lateralus? Man, that fucking "experimental" album or whatever they were doing bored the fucking SHIT out of me. It's the ONLY one of their records that I have NEVER listened to again! I played it once and have never listened to the entire fucking thing again.
Just me?
They better kick some ass on this one.
It reminds me of a band I once liked; Neurosis. They got more and more "matured" and "experimental" and "broadened the scope" of their music until they became unlistenable dawg shit.
Here's to hoping TOOL strays away from the trend of bands "maturing" towards an eventual Helmet-like pussification.
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