Tool to spend three months in studio “organising ideas” for new album

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Tool have revealed they plan to spend three months “organising our ideas” in the studio this spring as they work on their new album.The band have not released a full-length record since 2019’s ‘Fear Inoculum’, but as bassist Justin Chancellor recently told Summa Inferno, they intend to get to work on the follow-up after the conclusion of their upcoming Latin American tour.They are headlining their own festival, Tool In The Sand, across three days in March in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

They will play two sets, with other artists including Mastodon, Primus, Coheed And Cambria, Eagles Of Death Metal, CKY, and King’s X.After that, Chancellor says they plan to gather their ideas together. “We’ve all shared our individual ideas with each other, and we have a really good pile of stuff,” he said.“The really difficult process is when you actually get together and make decisions about how it’s going to end up.

And that becomes a little more mathematical, a little more like in the classroom – there’s a blackboard and there’s numbers and you have to make decisions.

So that’s the stage we haven’t completely pulled off yet, but we’re committed to do that when we get back.”“We’re gonna spend those few months really organizing our ideas,” he added. “You have to make those decisions, and you have to kind of wrestle with each other a bit to get to that next stage.