TOOL – Finishes Recording New Album

This is not a hoax. It actually looks as though 2019 will see a miracle happen. Yes, we really will see the release of a new TOOL album. After years of writing, demoing, and recording, mixing is finally ready to commence. This morning frontman Maynard James Keenan revealed that final vocals were tracked months ago and that they’re set to begin the “long process of mixing.”

Read more HERE  on the latest development. Further details have yet to be revealed, though a fall release seems likely.

Tool’s greatest breakthrough was to meld dark underground metal with the ambition of art rock. Although Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were composers, they kept their musical attack ferociously at street level. Tool didn’t. They embraced the artsy, bohemian preoccupations of Jane’s Addiction while they simultaneously paid musical homage to the relentlessly bleak visions of grindcore, death metal, and thrash. Even with their post-punk influences, they executed their music with the aesthetic of prog rock, alternating between long, detailed instrumental interludes and lyrical rants in their songs.

Tool had a knack for conveying the strangled, oppressive angst that the alternative nation of the early ’90s claimed as its own.