Whether or not there will be a new Tool album this year remains to be seen, but one thing we do know for sure is that frontman Maynard James Keenan will be taking his solo act, Puscifer, on the road this summer.
Concrete answers are a hard commodity to come by in the world of Tool, although their enigmatic existence in the musical realm is probably why so many love them.
Let's go back a decade and reexamine the albums that made up 2001. Check out the poll below and vote for your favorite. Or let us know if we missed one. As usual, the results will be posted next week.
So as most of you know by now, all the hype around Tool being in the recording studio was just that, and the recording sessions referred to in Tool's November newsletter were for drummer Danny Carey's side project, Volto.
Speaking to The Pulse Of Radio, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan confirmed that tool were indeed writing a new album, but that no recording had begun just yet, making it hard to pin down a release time frame.
Metal Injection has posted a clip of Tool guitarist Adam Jones performing the national anthem, aka "The Star-Spangled Banner," live last night at WWE Summerslam in Los Angeles, California.
They both started as cult heroes—Metallica’s Kirk Hammett was a man of the people, and Tool’s Adam Jones was a man of mystery. Join them as they compare notes on how they transformed their heavy metal into a worldwide religion.