Tool: Creating A New Album

What an awesome band, if they played Reading... :o

Tool are simply amazing,no other band can be compared to them really.They are the best at what they do.Unique.

oooooh can't wait to see them next year.....

wasnt sure what to make of them at first but after seeing them at Ozzfest 2002 i was blown away.
completely different to anyone else

i think that prediction of an album release and tour THIS YEAR is just a tad optimistic. judging by tools previous workrate, not to mention maynards other commitments, we'll be lucky to hear anything new from them this decade! lets be generous, 2008

I'd think they'd have something out next year - i seem to remember someone saying something about 2005 release - and in response to the main question - YES Tool are definitely the most complete band about.

"A similar box to tool" You couldn't resist, could you?
Too box.
D'oh.

"...similar box to Tool..."
You couldn't resist, could you?
Tool box.
D'oh.

"Kings of nu-prog / art-metal"

Sean Adams - King of intric-inventing nu-mega-words-amania. arama. genres.

Tool are fantastic.

Oceanic by ISIS is a masterpiece, that isn't anything like Tool, but I reckon you'd like it if you like any Tool stuff and also some off the heavier stuff out there. I get a similar buzz off both bands anyways.

And if you like that, Blueprint, Cubic Space Division, (Earthtone9) and to some extent Miocine may also be your cup of tea.

tool tool tool, goddamn amazing band. AEnima has to be my absolute favourite album EVER (along with met-and justice for all) couldn't live without it. cant wait to hear new stuff, but dont reckon it will be out until end of 2005 at earliest. no doubt it will be a masterpiece.

PLEASE REALESE A NEW ALBUM UNDERTOW MADE ME GROW, AENIMA MADE ME BLOW, SALIVAL MADE ME THROW, LATERALUS NEED I SAY MORE, OPIATE IS AND ARE GREAT GOODBYE FOR NOW SEE YA LATER

check out my band, Diastole. similar sorts of ideas executed a little differently. based in London, playing very soon and EP coming up end of november

Tool are indeed unique, anyone who likes decent music will love them. Like dogmaha, Aenima is my favourite all-time album. They are slack as fuck in getting stuff released but I guess you need time to write music that complicated.

I've had Oceansize to keep me happy since Lateralus, hopefully, both will release their new albums sometime this year.

I love Tool, Aenima is my favourite album of theirs. I do hope they are to produce a new one this year. I have seen APC perform live, but still waiting to see Tool. Maybe this is the year...

I've seen both Tool and APC live. Maynard is god in both cases, but Tool was the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
They were suppost to be in studios june 2004 and onward, and supposedly Danny Carey said that they were going to be done during the winter. But in all realism...this is tool, ill see you in line mid 2008

one of the most generous band on the universe!!!quite hard but...COOL!!!!when the next album will released??can't wait!!!

Ok, to begin I will say that I don't know much about Tool's personal politics, but I would like to address the post that criticizes Tool by, well I should just quote -gen-...

"i far prefer isis to tool though. tool are fantastic at what they do, but some of the pomposity - lyrically as much as anything else - comes across as extremely contrived, and dulls their impact from time to time. whereas isis are just jawdropping. <3 "

Well, my frame of reference is lacking as I have not heard Isis. Although from what I've read here I'm going to have to investigate. Anyway, I have been able to relate so much of my own human experience through the lyrics of Tool and quite a bit of A Perfect Circle. I figger this is either because Maynard has a talent for relating to people, or I'm a lot like him. It has not been mentioned in any of these threads exactly what much of Maynard's lyrics are about. Spiritual growth, understanding the cause of all mankind's suffering, messages that when fully understood and realized allow the individual to recognize their parasitic identity. In the song Bottom... the spoken words are a dramatization of someone realizing that they are not only their worst enemy, their distorted analyzations of reality are the very cause of all their suffering. Many Tool songs are complete parables in themselves, explaining that which many seek their whole lives and never find. In "Reflection", you are made to understand how miserable this person is. But at their lowest point, they realize that the moon's light is borrowed, but not just the moon's. We are all driven by light, unified through it, and cannot escape it. Every morsel that enters your mouth is condensed sunshine and stardust, and that's all you are. Dust in the Wind, great song. Anyway, back to the song "Reflection" quickly, and then I'll shutup. The point is most literally related when Maynard writes.. "So crucify the ego, before it's far too late, and leave behind this place so negative, in line, and cynical, and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable, so let the light touch you so that the words spill through, and let them pass right through, bringing out our/all hope and reason." You truly have to allow yourself to see the truth, uncluttered by thought. And this is what the great Buddha called enlightenment.
ANYWAY my final point I want to make is... I have loved tool since the moment I started listening to them, but it was only after finding enlightenment that I actually understood most of the lyrics. I only love them 100 times more, and my guess is that would be par for course for everyone involved. Plus, it rocks to realize everything's cool and it's all good in the hood ok I'm seriously gonna quit flappin my flappies... peace..

I think tool is simply the greatest band ever. Maynard has the best vocals out there. A perfect circle rocks to...

hey i have an question. Nine inch nails or marilyn manson?

First of all, absolutely cannot wait for this new album. Rumors about August 23rd are kicking around a lot, but which year? Plus it could be for the Lateralus DVD. Either way, I want it.

As for the pomposity, get over it. That whole "Hooker with a Penis" gig, it's an establishment between artist and consumer. Seriously, fans worship Maynard and he honestly gets sick of it like many sincere artists would. The song merely states that he's the artist and we're the consumer, so shut up and buy his record like the relationship states. It doesn't get any deeper than that. So I have respect for him that he stays down to earth in that sense.

And there's been some chatter on Toolarmy about a possible Tool and Isis tour, so yes, musical euphoria may be only a show away.

do you think they should take there time or do you think they should just hurry up?

holy shit!! (i didnt just find out about the album now, im just posting now) tool is the most fuckin amazing band ever im 14 and no one at my school nos them ive worshipped them the past 2 years and all the other fuckers at my skool (pretty much) are rapped up in all the blink 182 and foos fighters shit! WTF tool is the only thing close to a zeppelin that my generation has all the members (carey, keenan, chancelor, jone [d'amour]) are gods 2 me especially danny TOOL FUCKIN RULES!!!!!!

Pay attention to the band's website. There will be a an update regarding the new album very soon. The August newsletter should have some info which will be posted soon.

http://www.toolband.com/news/index.html