Drummers and Tool fans....

[CellarDoor]

It says in the Tool Faq that Leeches threw his voice out for three weeks after they recorded it first.

[Dredz]

Um...yeah, read the thread before you post.

[Aimster]

I have the lateralus album as one big track in the spiraled sequence.. its deadly!

tool are amazing, Carey=best drummer ever imo


and they did do leeches at ozzfest! it was wikid! (the whole thing was wikid actually!!)

[ROG]

Did anyone check out the Virgil Donati clip?






Scary............

[Adrian]

Yeah,Ticks and Leeches Kicked ass at Ozzfest,thats about the only thing i remember from the whole concert,bits come back to me now and again,but not much!!

[G - Money]

I saw friends of mine, grown men, in tears as tool performed.

[Lateralus]

Ahh, I was going to mention the fibonnaci sequence but someone beat me to it.

Tool are amazing.

[Adrian]

That they are. Fucking amazing band!! Life Changing!!

[G - Money]

Tool Hammer Away At New Album

The members of Tool aren't at all jealous of frontman Maynard James Keenan's commitment to his other band, A Perfect Circle. They enjoy the downtime. And when they get antsy, they can get to work on new ideas without having a hands-on singer getting in the way.

For months, drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Justin Chancellor have been jamming together, and they've already got the framework for 10 to 12 new songs.

"They're very much in the infant stage, where we have all these different jams and we start piecing them together," Carey said. "There are no true arrangements yet. We like to develop ideas, but we don't want to solidify anything too much until Maynard gets involved."

Tool will continue to write as a trio until mid-June, when Keenan finishes touring with A Perfect Circle. Then they'll work through the songs with their singer for another two or three months before hitting the studio, Carey said. While it's too early to get an overall read on the new songs, Carey described the material as heavier and more intense than the group's last disc, 2001's Lateralus.

"There seems to be a little more brute force going on in the music, rather than being lighter and more intricate like some of the stuff on the last record," Carey said. "It still has quirky time changes, but so far we've been working on really heavy stuff."

In part, the aggressive vibe of the material has been a reaction to Tool's tours with thunderously intricate bands like Fantômas and Swedish death-prog band Meshuggah.

"[Fantômas singer] Mike Patton and [Fantômas/Slayer drummer] Dave Lombardo — those guys are a good, heavy influence," Carey said. "And we did most of the dates on our last tour with Meshuggah. They're incredibly heavy, so it was a good kick in the teeth playing with them."

Carey said he hopes the new Tool record will be ready for release by the end of the year, but he added that it may not be issued until early 2005 in order to avoid being lost in the Christmas shuffle.

In addition to rehearsing new songs from noon to 4 p.m. every day, Tool-minus-Maynard have also been putting together a DVD of footage from the Lateralus tour, which they plan to release this summer.

"It's going to be something really cool," Carey said. "It won't be just another band-playing-live video."

Tool are also editing footage of a lengthy conversation between themselves and Alex Grey, the psychedelic painter who created the artwork for Lateralus, for future release. "Alex is in the process of releasing a book on his function in the Lateralus tour with his artwork, so we're thinking we might release them as a package together," Carey said.

When he wasn't working with Jones and Chancellor, Carey spent his free evenings in his home studio writing and recording with Pigmy Love Circus, a band he originally played with before joining Tool. Following a reunion gig at the House of Blues in West Hollywood last year, Pigmy wrote the record The Power of Beef, which Carey drummed on and produced.

"It's a good-time, straight-on power band," Carey said. "Tool is a lot more intricate and more dynamic, but there's nothing like playing full-ahead, balls-out, raw power, too, and I don't get to do that as much in Tool."

—Jon Wiederhorn

[yevveh]

Early 2005... ?

[CellarDoor]

Taht's an old story.

pegged for early 06 now.

[Adrian]

Rumour has it that it may be secretly released in July of 2005. On the news section of the Tool website they have been obsessing over Miss July from Playboy 2004 and some people are starting to believe this to be a clever ploy from the band,dropping a small hint. We all know Tool are heavily into hidden messages,could this be one?? Or could it just be that Miss July was a sexy Bitch!!
Whatever way you look at it,there's a nineteen minute song written for that album,so it should be fucking Excellent!!

[Aimster]

i cant wait for new tool.. its going to be great!!


as for what G said bout seein freinds in tears whilst watching them, i was nearly the same myself... it was so surreal and one of the biggest rushes iv ever got at a gig..! id love to see them again

[stereomaniac]

It's amazing to see videos of them playing. The whole crowd just seem to be in a trance watching them. I couldn't understand this at first but I realised that if I were there I'd be speechless for the whole thing as well. They are so amazing. Words just cannot express it like..