Any info out there on TOOL.

Useful.Idiot · 04-07-2019 1:24pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Saw them in Lisbon the other day, AMAZING! Great place to have it too.

Same. Only back in Ireland this afternoon. Absolutely incredible gig and one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to. Perhaps a bit too many people smoking inside the arena but didn't put a dampener on anything.

The second new tune they played was fuggin great.

S.M.B. · 04-07-2019 2:11pm

Is their stuff dated? I find it difficult to tell what sounds of it's time and what feels timeless and I feel Tool falls into the latter category. But I guess it can be difficult to identify something as dated when you consumed it when it was originally released.

frag420 · 04-07-2019 4:36pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

Is their stuff dated? I find it difficult to tell what sounds of it's time and what feels timeless and I feel Tool falls into the latter category. But I guess it can be difficult to identify something as dated when you consumed it when it was originally released.

aint that the beauty of it...

Tar.Aldarion · 04-07-2019 4:40pm

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

Same. Only back in Ireland this afternoon. Absolutely incredible gig and one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to. Perhaps a bit too many people smoking inside the arena but didn't put a dampener on anything.

The second new tune they played was fuggin great.

yeah Lisbon was surprisingly amazing, never knew anything about it. happily walked around it for days without wanting to do anything else, so cool.

Hated the smoking in there but didnt take away too much, was class! Crowd were much tamer than they would be here though haha. Golden circle was so worth it.

yeah invincible is amazing! Love it. The first new on descending or whatever was more like an experience, with the crazy visuals/pyramid etc, very cool.

PTH2009 · 30-07-2019 12:32am

Full catalogue going on streaming/digital services on Friday

S.M.B. · 30-07-2019 10:31am

New album has a title too.

Tar.Aldarion · 30-07-2019 11:53am

Fear Inoculum.

PTH2009 · 30-07-2019 1:28pm

Doubtful but would love an Irish tour date in 2020

Band has really grown on me great sound

Arghus · 30-07-2019 5:32pm

I wouldn't be surprised to see them make a visit here in the next 12/18 months.

fyfe79 · 30-07-2019 11:43pm

Was also hopeful of news of them re-releasing their catalogue on vinyl, as they mentioned it a year or two ago, but no dice. Yet.

Treviso · 31-07-2019 1:42pm

Joe Rogan podcast with Maynard was interesting enough - shows him live tweeting the news about the new album name and back catalogue being available from Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-w-LFBw8Co

Arghus · 01-08-2019 11:59pm

It was an entertaining interview, but there wasn't a whole lot of talk about Tool in it - just the streaming announcemt and the album title. Joe was more interested in talking about staph infections, wine and CBD oil.

I kinda like Joe Rogan to an extent, but the amount of absolute baloney he comes out with is fairly amazing.

PTH2009 · 02-08-2019 8:11am

What a day to be alive

Tool on Spotify

weiland79 · 02-08-2019 8:43am

Listening to Tool on the cycle to work this morning !!
( Not that i didnt before, but its different right?)

devildriver · 02-08-2019 12:28pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

What a day to be alive

Tool on Spotify

Yeah was a bit shocked to see Tool trending on Twitter

Grayditch · 02-08-2019 12:28pm

My playlists just got a little better.

Useful.Idiot · 02-08-2019 12:38pm

Arghus wrote: »

It was an entertaining interview, but there wasn't a whole lot of talk about Tool in it - just the streaming announcemt and the album title. Joe was more interested in talking about staph infections, wine and CBD oil.

I kinda like Joe Rogan to an extent, but the amount of absolute baloney he comes out with is fairly amazing.

Yep. I don't mind the usual Roganisms but it actually seemed like Maynard wanted to discuss the album and the album title etc. but Joe was content to change subject as quickly as possible to talk about the stuff that him and Maynard always talk about. He definitely has barely listened to few minutes of Tool's music.

Dero · 02-08-2019 6:21pm

https://twitter.com/AJFA666/status/1157219276719362048

weiland79 · 02-08-2019 7:14pm

Sitting here listening to Aenima in the kitchen. The wife says it just sounds like noise. What is wrong with some people? Ill have to re evalute our relationship.

weiland79 · 02-08-2019 7:16pm

Mods any chance we could get a thread title change? Tool would probably work just fine.

02-08-2019 11:43pm

weiland79 wrote: »

Listening to Tool on the cycle to work this morning !!
( Not that i didnt before, but its different right?)

Ha snap, my legs seemed to have new energy on "bastard" hill today :pac:

Arghus · 04-08-2019 1:15am

Like stepping back in a time machine listening to many of these songs.

I hadn't actually properly listened to Tool for years, maybe the odd tune here and there, but, yeah, it had been many years.

Not that I'd forgotten them - Most of the songs, basically all of Aenima and Lateralus and two thirds of everything else, are hardwired into my brain after countless, countless listens back in the day: you never really forget that stuff that made you.

Some talk online about whether things have been compressed or mixed/mastered slightly differently - I'm not even going to pretend I understand all the levels of technicality. Hard to say, things sound pretty close to how I remember them.

Have to say, they're kinda business geniuses: the timing of the streaming releases and the announcement of the album = titanic levels of hype.

Grayditch · 04-08-2019 3:02am

Arghus wrote: »

Have to say, they're kinda business geniuses: the timing of the streaming releases and the announcement of the album = titanic levels of hype.

Agreed. Not to mention going on Rogan the day of the announcement.

04-08-2019 10:37pm

How are those itunes albums charts looking for them .....

https://kworb.net/aww/

gucci · 05-08-2019 8:40am

Arghus wrote: »

Have to say, they're kinda business geniuses: the timing of the streaming releases and the announcement of the album = titanic levels of hype.

Really enjoyed the drive home from work on Friday after a full days Tool inspired productivity (including a beer at lunch which was more or less Tool talk with another fan in the office, while everyone else prattled on about work)

I was listening to someone, forget if he was from Keane or Kaiser Cheifs, one of those guys speak on tv a few weeks ago how they have changed their song writing style for some of the songs on their new album, because you really need to grab listeners in the first 20/30 seconds on streaming platforms...…..and I was thinking of that when I was listening to the epic intros on the Tool stuff.
A very different audience of course, but funny to think of the type of "artist" that qualifies success by clicks or by how whether they are actually happy with how it sounds.

fyfe79 · 05-08-2019 2:37pm

fyfe79 wrote: »

Was also hopeful of news of them re-releasing their catalogue on vinyl, as they mentioned it a year or two ago, but no dice. Yet.

Ha, it seems like good news! This Dutch site is selling the new album and mentions that the others on vinyl are on the way....

https://www.hoeshop.nl/a-56948912/welkom/tool-fear-inoculum-lp-versie/#description

"The older albums Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 Days are also remastered on vinyl for the first time"

Lithium93_ · 05-08-2019 3:35pm

So Fear Inoculum will have 7 tracks, and is around 80 minutes in length...

https://loudwire.com/new-tool-album-80-minutes-seven-tracks/

PropJoe10 · 05-08-2019 3:49pm

Lithium93_ wrote: »

So Fear Inoculum will have 7 tracks, and is around 80 minutes in length...

https://loudwire.com/new-tool-album-80-minutes-seven-tracks/

Now that's the kind of song length I can get on board with. Can't wait!

Lithium93_ · 05-08-2019 5:43pm

https://twitter.com/Tool/status/1158409126734487553

Grayditch · 05-08-2019 11:02pm

A breakdown of some of the parts of Schism
https://soundcloud.com/theklossessions/tool-schism

devildriver · 06-08-2019 7:21pm

weiland79 wrote: »

Sitting here listening to Aenima in the kitchen. The wife says it just sounds like noise. What is wrong with some people? Ill have to re evalute our relationship.

Hey! What's my wife doing in your kitchen???

Arghus · 07-08-2019 1:25pm

New track is up -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DfQMPmJRI

D.Q · 07-08-2019 2:00pm

Arghus wrote: »

New track is up -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7DfQMPmJRI

it's so mad to think I was 16 the last time I heard new Tool music. My whole life has happened since then.

S.M.B. · 07-08-2019 3:01pm

Do I wait for the entire album or not?

hmmmmmm

weiland79 · 07-08-2019 7:11pm

Well its unmistakably Tool and feels like it could have been released on 10,000 days.
I like it, but it hasnt knocked anything off my 'Id love to hear that live list'.
It says we are still bad ass musicians, but for me it meanders along just a bit too much with not enough hard rock pay off except for the last minute where that hard Metallica One sounding riff kicks in.
The bass throughout is bad ass, but Maynard i felt never really gets into second gear.

Should you wait for the full album?

It may play better in the context of the full album alright.

7.5/10

weiland79 · 07-08-2019 7:32pm

I should clarify that I'll still be listening to it on repeat for the next 2 weeks.

S.M.B. · 07-08-2019 8:31pm

I caved in and listened although I do think based on the interviews that it'll work a lot better as part of a full album listen.

On first listen it feels like a mash up of riffs and moments from previous Tool albums with Maynard bringing a bit of APC to the table.

If it was released by another band I would consider it to be super derivative. Because its Tool I'm wondering if some AI helped put it together or whether it's repeated motifs are part of the bigger picture.

Useful.Idiot · 07-08-2019 10:46pm

definitely feels very derivative to these ears. It's ike Tool have forgotten how to be Tool so they're trying too hard to write a Tool song, if you get me.

Will reserve full opinion until I listen to album, it could indeed work better in context. New tunes on the live set definitely more interesting standalone than this one.

Arghus · 08-08-2019 12:49am

I'm in two minds about it myself. There's parts of it I like: the intro is cool enough, there's passages here and there that are really good, but a lot of it feels like they are retreading old ground - some of the riffs are astonishingly close to what they've done before, there's drum parts that are exactly like the drumming on reflection and the climax of the song sounds too close to Eulogy for me. Feels a lot like Tool doing a Tool cover, rather than something that'll blow your mind.

Maynard sounds very much in APC mode as well, which I'm not too sure about: I thought their album last year was pretty bland and forgettable.

It's not bad and there's a lot of unrealistic expectations for them to deliver a mind-blowing piece of music after thirteen years and, sure, maybe in an album context it'll sound a lot better.

Anesthetize · 08-08-2019 6:25am

The new song is rather boring. It just re-threads old ground and offers nothing new.
The new logo and artwork are fairly bad too.

5/10

S.M.B. wrote: »

Because its Tool I'm wondering if some AI helped put it together.

This is what I was thinking. It sounds like an AI-generated Tool song.

Granadino · 08-08-2019 10:13am

Really trying to get into this band but just can't. The new song sounds like old Tool, which is fine, but it's not as exciting and as ground breaking as some of the YT comments make out. Take out all the fancy drum fills and it's bog standard enough.

evad_lhorg · 08-08-2019 12:44pm

The physical release is about $45 and over here about €99(Tower Records)....

How the hell does that translate?!

S.M.B. · 08-08-2019 1:05pm

I believe there is a physical release that has some sort of inbuilt media player of sorts? Is that the version that'll cost €99?

Grayditch · 08-08-2019 1:24pm

Yeah, it has an lcd screen and speakers. I ordered one from Amazon US yesterday.

evad_lhorg · 08-08-2019 1:58pm

Grayditch wrote: »

Yeah, it has an lcd screen and speakers. I ordered one from Amazon US yesterday.

For 45 dollars?

Tar.Aldarion · 08-08-2019 2:00pm

evad_lhorg wrote: »

For 45 dollars?

works out at €66 with delivery I think, then there may be customs? Not sure if it's already included in the €66 that I heard.

PropJoe10 · 08-08-2019 7:09pm

New track is really growing on me. Can't wait for the album.

Grayditch · 08-08-2019 7:30pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

works out at €66 with delivery I think, then there may be customs? Not sure if it's already included in the €66 that I heard.

Yep. It estimates a tenner customs in that, I think. Mine was about €58 delivered.

I saw Wowcd have it for 35 sterling. Ive a feeling that won't go ahead. I've even a feeling my Amazon one could end up being dearer, somehow too.

rickyjb · 09-08-2019 12:38pm

Grayditch wrote: »

Yep. It estimates a tenner customs in that, I think. Mine was about €58 delivered.

I saw Wowcd have it for 35 sterling. Ive a feeling that won't go ahead. I've even a feeling my Amazon one could end up being dearer, somehow too.

Just ordered it from wowhd for €37. Why do you think it won't go ahead, too cheap?

Grayditch · 10-08-2019 1:28pm

rickyjb wrote: »

Just ordered it from wowhd for €37. Why do you think it won't go ahead, too cheap?

I think the may have guesstimated wrong, as it's £80 on HMV for example, but I could be wrong. If they ship it for that, happy days!

Any info out there on TOOL.

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