After teasing new music for over a 12 months, Tool’s Justin Chancellor has as soon as once more assured followers {that a} new album is on the way in which. Following their upcoming Latin American tour, he’s revealed that they may “dedicate the subsequent three months” to organizing their concepts within the studio.
The remark got here in a brand new interview with Chancellor by Summa Inferno, during which he described their album-making course of as having “quite a lot of levels.” Because it stands now, Software’s members reportedly “all have concepts… We’ve all shared our particular person concepts with one another, and now we have a very good pile of stuff.”
Nevertheless it’s after the “concepts” stage that issues get just a little extra difficult, Chancellor defined. “The actually tough course of is whenever you truly get collectively and make selections about the way it’s going to finish up. And that turns into just a little extra mathematical, just a little extra like within the classroom — there’s a blackboard and there’s numbers and you need to make selections. In order that’s the stage we haven’t utterly pulled off but, however we’re dedicated to do this after we get again.”
The band’s Latin America tour will kick off with their destination festival in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in March, adopted by dates in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Brasil (get tickets here). That locations their upcoming three month interval within the studio as starting someday round April.
“We’re gonna spend these few months actually organizing our concepts,” Chancellor continued. “You must make these selections, and you need to sort of wrestle with one another a bit to get to that subsequent stage. After which you need to report it, which is an entire different factor as effectively… It’s like a being pregnant, virtually. While you go to the studio, you need to make this ultimate resolution of the way it’s gonna sound and the way you’re gonna play it, and it’s gonna dwell like that eternally.”
To that finish, Chancellor defended the time the band takes to supply their music. “It’s an actual delicate factor to have the ability to pull off,” he mentioned. “I don’t suppose it’s unreasonable that we take a very long time in any respect. I believe that’s solely pure, and that’s why I’m happy with it, as a result of it was labored on actually arduous.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Chancellor additionally gave perception into how Software may launch this new assortment of songs after they’re able to go.
“The local weather of releasing music has utterly modified,” he mentioned, earlier than explaining that the band is open to non-traditional launch methods. “We’ve talked about releasing a single, only one track… We might additionally launch an EP. And I believe as a result of now we have such a devoted fan base, everybody’s gonna be up for it… So, we would not essentially have to actually wrestle out an entire album… Or you might launch a single after which one other single, one other single, after which after a 12 months of releasing singles, you might put all of them collectively on a report and make that an album.”
Concluding, Chancellor mentioned, “We’re simply sort of making it up. However I can inform you that we completely have to write down new music to proceed doing what we’re doing. We wouldn’t be comfortable simply to only sit on our laurels and play the identical stuff again and again. We actually need to create new music to have the ability to proceed doing what we love. So it’s coming. Belief me.”
Software first hinted at this new album a number of years in the past, with Chancellor promising in 2023 that they’d hit the studio after their then-upcoming enviornment tour. In January 2024, he instructed Heavy Consequence that they’d begin recording the follow-up to 2019’s Fear Inoculum within the “second half” of that 12 months, and added the subsequent month that “there’s no thought of taking 13 years” with the brand new mission.
Since then, in fact, no new music has arrived, however the band has stayed busy. They wrapped their 2024 tour final June, after which got here collectively once more for a surprise performance at Bass Journal Awards final month. Earlier this week, frontman Maynard James Keenan introduced the passing of his father.
