Tool: Last News

Tool’s Justin Chancellor says new material could arrive as a run of singles saying that it would be “an exciting idea” to do so.Speaking to NME in a new interview, Chancellor was asked if new material from the band could come as an EP – something band member Danny Carey had previously hinted at.When asked if that was something the band – comprised of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Chancellor and Carey – were still open to, Chancellor replied in the affirmative.He said: “Absolutely. Looking at how things are released and consumed by the public these days, it’s more common to release even just a single.

‘Fear Inoculum’ – the follow-up to 2006’s ’10,000 Days’.However, recent months have seen the band reassure us that the era of waiting over a decade for new material is behind them, and that they’ll be heading to the studio after their upcoming tour dates to crank out album six.“It’s surreal, because I remember it coming out like it was yesterday,” bassist Justin Chancellor tells NME of ‘Fear Inoculum’ hitting its fifth anniversary. “That being said, we’ve had a really good run for it.

Tool song, which he has said makes “Dream Theater look like Weezer”.Portnoy, who rejoined the Boston prog metal band in October last year after a 13-year absence, took up the challenge from the Drumeo YouTube channel to learn Tool’s 12-minute track ‘Pneuma’, from 2019’s ‘Fear Inoculum’.The percussionist was given six hours to master the track, in what Drumeo described as “the most difficult challenge we’ve ever given anyone”.Over the course of the video, which you can watch below, Portnoy studies footage of Tool drummer Danny Carey and scouring the sheet music to decipher the song’s complexity.“This makes Dream Theater sound like fuckin’ Weezer,” Portnoy exclaims at one point. “With all due respect to Weezer, I love Weezer.

A Perfect Circle for their upcoming North American joint headline tour, 13 years after he last played with the band. A Perfect Circle’s joint tour with Puscifer and Primer was announced in November, and will kick off on April 2 in Boston.

Tool’s frontman Maynard James Keenan is helping train Mike Tyson, ahead of his boxing match against Jake Paul.The announcement comes after it was revealed earlier this month that the renowned boxer would be taking on the YouTube star-turned-boxer at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Set to take place on July 20, the fight will also be live-streamed on Netflix.Now, it has been revealed that the former Heavyweight athlete has kicked off his training programme at Keenan’s martial arts academy in Cottonwood, Arizona.The iconic rock frontman posted a photo of himself with his wife, Lei Li Keenan, with Tyson on Instagram, confirming that he and his colleagues had been training Iron Mike at the Verde Valley BJJ martial arts school.“Honored to have @miketyson grace our small town academy, @verdevalleybjj,” he wrote in the caption.

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has revealed that the band have “no thought” on taking another 13 years to release a new album.The comments come after the American rock band took 13 years to share the follow-up to the 2006 album ‘10,000 Days’ – dropping ‘Fear Inoculum’ in 2019. However, according to a new interview with Chancellor, fans can be rest assured that it won’t take nearly as long for new material to come out.Speaking with Metal Hammer, the bassist said that there is more of a push for the band to release a new album this time around, particularly due to the age of some of their members.

Tool have treated fans to a rare performance of ‘Flood’.The band have just started on their massive US Arena tour, where they played Madison Square Garden on Friday (January 12). It was here that they performed ‘Flood’, a track taken off their 1993 debut ‘Undertow’.

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has earned a black belt in the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, as confirmed on Instagram. A photo was posted on the social media site by fellow black belt Ty Gay this week (January 8) showing Keenan with his newly-acquired belt. “Congratulations to my friend, training partner, and sometimes nemesis @iamthebriefcase on the monumental task of receiving his Black Belt today,” Gay wrote beneath the photo.

Tool‘s Danny Carey has shared that the band may be releasing an EP instead of an album.The LA group – comprised of of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor and Carey – released their fifth and most recent studio record, ‘Fear Inoculum’, in 2019. It came 13 years after its predecessor, 2006’s ‘10,000 Days’.Back in October, Chancellor teased that fans won’t be waiting as long for Tool’s next LP.

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson joined Tool on stage in Toronto this week for a surprise performance.Tool wrapped up their North American headline tour this month with two shows in Toronto earlier in the week. Performing at the Scotiabank Arena on Monday (November 20), the LA rock band welcomed Lifeson – who grew up in Toronto – to the stage for a rendition of their song ‘Jambi’.The performance also included Rush’s ‘A Passage To Bangkok’ intro and guitar solo from 1976 album ‘2112’.Check out footage of the surprise appearance below.Tool have enforced a no phone policy at their shows in recent years.

Tool have announced a series of UK and European tour dates, set to kick off in 2024. Find a list of upcoming shows and ticket details below.All set to take place in spring next year, the upcoming tour dates come as the band – comprised of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey – are currently in the midst of a North American tour that extends into February.Set to kick off two months later, the tour will open with a slot at the ZAG Arena in Hannover, Germany on May 25, and continue two days later with a show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.From there, three performances around the UK are scheduled, opening with a performance in Birmingham on May 30, held at the Resorts World Arena.

Tool brought out Billy Strings for a live rendition of ‘Jambi’ during the opening night of their North American Arena tour.Following their headlining set at Power Trip Fest on Sunday (October 8) Tool kicked off the first night of their tour at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bringing out Strings as a special guest, the band and the bluegrass musician jammed out to ‘Jambi’ as the second song of the night’s setlist.Strings has previously discussed playing in different metal bands during his high school years.

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has revealed that the band plan to work on a new album following their upcoming tour.The LA group released their fifth and most recent studio record, ‘Fear Inoculum’, in 2019. It came 13 years after its predecessor, 2006’s ‘10,000 Days’. During a recent appearance on The Vinyl Guide podcast, Chancellor teased that fans won’t be waiting as long for Tool’s next LP.He said the band have already “got many ideas cooking” for the new album, but confirmed that they “haven’t recorded anything yet”.“But we’re quite busy until after the spring of next year touring.

Tool have announced the dates for their scheduled 2024 US arena tour – see the full list of dates below.Yesterday (October 10), the band took to social media to announce the new dates, which will see the legendary progressive metal band perform 20 arena shows across the United States between January 10 and February 18, with support from Elder.Tickets to the 2024 run of shows will go on sale this Friday (October 13) at 10am local time via the band’s official website – get your tickets here. The tour will also notably include the band’s first shows at the Madison Square Garden in New York since 2001.A post shared by Tool (@toolmusic)Tool are currently on tour across North America, and are scheduled to end their current run of shows on November 22 in Toronto, Canada.

Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer – has announced plans to open a winemaking facility in Cottonwood, a city in the Yavapai County of Arizona.The Caduceus Cellars Hilltop Facility, which will open next month on October 6, will be run by the same team that oversees Keenan’s winery Caduceus Cellars and his Merkin vineyard that are located in Jerome – approximately a 15-minute drive from the new Cottonwood location. AZ Central reports that the complex will also include a new restaurant named the Trattoria, a tasting room dubbed the Ventura Room and a gelateria named Pocket Park.In a press statement, Keenan said that the opening of this new facility was something he’d been “working towards” for “many years”.“One of the things I discovered when it comes to bridging the hurdle of exposing people to Arizona wine is context,” he said.

Tool‘s Maynard James Keenan protested Florida’s new anti-drag ban on stage at the band’s Daytona Beach gig last night (May 21).On Sunday, the band played the Welcome To Rockville festival, and Keenan appeared on stage in drag, protesting the new bill that became law this week.The law, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, prohibits minors from attending drag shows amongst a number of other anti-trans policies.This year’s Welcome To Rockville was an all-ages festival, meaning that Keenan was technically in breach of the new law for his actions.See footage from the show, in which Keenan wore a blonde wig, red lipstick and fake breasts, below.Maynard of TooL (a perfect circle and puscifer also) is an absolute legend. Performing last night, in drag at their Florida show.

Tool and Queens Of The Stone Age have joined Primus onstage and performed covers of AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more. Check out fan footage and the setlist below.The performance was held at The Belasco in Los Angeles on Monday (April 17) and saw Primus play a live set to raise funds for director, animator and writer Jimmy Hayward (Toy Story, Finding Nemo), who is currently undergoing cancer treatment.During the show – which featured six Primus songs and four covers – the band were joined by Tool members Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor, and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen.The benefit show opened with the popular 1991 single ‘Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers’, and later saw the surprise guests join them on stage to cover various rock classics.The covers included Tool’s ‘Ænema’, AC/DC’s ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’ and King Crimson’s ‘Thela Hun Ginjeet’.

Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden and Tool are set to all play new California festival Power Trip.Across three days at the Empire Polo Club in Indio – the venue for Coachella – the six metal heavyweights will come together for a massive show on October 6, 7 and 8.The show will be Ozzy Osbourne’s first since he announced his retirement from touring. It’s also AC/DC’s first gig since 2016, and could signal the return of frontman Brian Johnson, who missed their last gigs due to hearing loss and was replaced by Guns N’ Roses’ Axl Rose.The first day of Power Trip (October 6) will be headlined by Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden, with AC/DC and Osbourne headlining the second night.Things then wrap up on October 8 with sets from Metallica and Tool.See full details below.

Foo Fighters, Green Day and Avenged Sevenfold have been announced as headliners at this year’s Louder Than Life festival – check out the full line-up below.The four-day festival in Louisville, Kentucky takes place at Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center from September 21 to 24, where the likes of Weezer, Queens Of the Stone Age, Limp Bizkit and Turnstile will also perform.Other acts on the massive line-up include Rancid, Tool, Godsmack, Pantera, Babymetal, Code Orange, Falling in Reverse, Deafheaven, Nothing But Thieves, Enter Shikari, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Bad Omens, Run The Jewels, Asking Alexandria, Jehnny Beth and many more.Check out the line-up poster below.“The fans spoke, and we listened,” promoter Danny Wimmer said in a statement. “The Foo Fighters, Green Day, Tool, and Avenged Sevenfold were our most fan-requested bands for 2023, so being able to deliver this massive lineup to them is so special.”Tickets are available to purchase now from here.Foo Fighters have also been announced to headline Outside Lands festival in San Francisco this summer, with other appearances planned for Boston Calling, Sonic Temple, Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park and Bonnaroo.The Dave Grohl-led band also announced a trio of US headline shows for this year across May and June.The upcoming dates will mark the group’s first full gigs since the death of Taylor Hawkins last March.

Puscifer have shared details of two Halloween concert films that feature music from their 2007 debut ‘V Is For Vagina’ and its 2011 follow-up ‘Conditions Of My Parole’.The band, which is a side project of Tool and A Perfect Circle singer Maynard James Keenan, will stage a behind-the-scenes performance as they reinterpret and re-record songs from their early days as well as dramatise ‘Conditions Of My Parole’. The ‘Conditions Of My Parole’ film will also feature surprise cameos.Both films premiere live at 12pm PT (8pm BST) on October 28 and remain on-demand for 72 hours.V Is For Versatile: A Puscifer Concert Film Featuring Music From The V Is For… Era is shot in the legendary Los Angeles recording studio Sunset Sound.The second film, Parole Violator: A Puscifer Concert Film Featuring Conditions Of My Parole, follows a storyline involving the band’s cast of so-called “Pusciverse” characters.

Tool celebrated the end of their European tour by joining support act Brass Against for a performance of their first industry single, ‘Stinkfist’.Performing in Budapest last week (May 24), Brass Against performed the 1996 Ænima track – a regular track in their set of big-band rock covers – with Tool’s Adam Jones, Danny Carey, and Justin Chancellor joining them onstage.Brass Against’s covers of ‘The Pot’ and ‘Lateralus’ had caught the attention of the metal band, who subsequently invited them to open their shows.Watch the two bands combining to perform ‘Stinkfist’ below.Stinkfist w/ Adam, Justin and Danny in Budapest @Tool pic.twitter.com/S3M4Zs81tp— Brass Against (@BrassAgainst) May 31, 2022At the start of the tour in April, Brass Against were reminded that they were performing in a “no pee zone” on their tour with the veteran rockers.Upon arriving at the venue – the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark – Urista was greeted by a sign that’d been taped to the stage. It read: “NO PEE ZONE – No Urine Is To Be Deposited, Placed, Distributed, Sprinkled, Poured And/or Spread In This Immediate Area.”Last November, footage emerged of Brass Against singer Sophia Urista urinating on a willing fan’s face during the band’s set at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida.Although it’s not been confirmed, the sign was presumably put there by known-practical jokers Tool.