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Tool is supposedly working on new music
Tool‘s bassist Justin Chancellor seems to be hinting that the band is really working on new music. Chancellor earlier shared a picture of his two basses in cases to Instagram along with the cryptic message, “Vacation is over.” Keep in mind that Chancellor stated to Metal Hammer earlier this year that Tool would start writing new songs when their European live gigs concluded (on June 27th). A few months later, Chancellor discussed the status of the new Tool in an interview with Kerrang!, pointing out that the band still has several song skeletons that need to be completed.
We put a little work in before this tour. We gave it a stab for a couple of months. We ended up compiling all the ideas we had; normally when we do that we start writing pretty soon after, but we had a lot of stuff coming up, so we didn’t dive all the way in. When we’re done with Europe, we’re gonna dive back in during the second half of the year. Chancellor to Metal Hammer
There’s absolutely tons and tons of hard drives full of stuff. Some ideas go back to before Fear Inoculum that are just simple riffs that we never incorporated into a song. But sometimes that’s a bit like grinding the gears when you’re trying to resurrect or revisit them, so it’s really appealing to work on the newest stuff. Each time we come together, people also have so many new ideas and then we’ll spend all day playing them. We’re constantly introducing new stuff but then sometimes that’ll marry with the old material. We’ve been writing for the last couple of weeks, meeting a couple of times each week – we’ve had some really good sessions, and a lot of it has been brand new. We already have a couple of solid, what I would say are, skeletons of songs waiting to be finalised.
Chancellor to Kerrang!
As drummer Danny Carey of Tool mentioned earlier this year, new vinyl reissues might accompany the new music.