It appears the rumours that Tool have been hard at work in the studio recording new music for a long-awaited follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days are true, because the latest progress report comes straight from the band and it’s very promising.
As Consequence of Sound reports, during a recent meet-and-greet in Salt Lake City, guitarist Adam Jones revealed that he and bandmates Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor have been in the studio three days a week.
The result of this schedule has been two albums’ worth of new material recored. However, only five of the songs that have been completed actually “meet their Tool standard” and frontman Maynard James Keenan is yet to contribute to any of the tracks.
Keenan, the vocalist and lyricist for the group, apparently waits until 90 percent of the instrumentals have been written before putting pen to paper. But since when are five Tool tracks not enough to make an entire album?
Especially once you consider that the shortest track on Tool’s new album is apparently 12 minutes long. That’s according to legendary Melvins frontman Buzz Osbourne, who’s heard Tool’s new material and confirmed it is not “radio friendly”.
Apparently, Osbourne isn’t the only one to have heard some of the band’s new material. Consequence of Sound reports fans who attended the Salt Lake City meet-and-greet were treated to a riff of music from the new album courtesy of Jones.
Back to the waiting game for now.
