The saga of a new Tool album continues! According to Tool bassist Justin Chancellor in an interview with Summa Inferno, the instrumental portions of Tool will hole up in the studio for three months working on new material after their Mexican festival in March. And it’s not like Tool hasn’t been working on new material – they have, they just take forever.
“When we get back from (our) trip — I think it’s only three weeks we’re gonna be (there) — but we have already shared with each other a lot of these new ideas, but when we get back, we’re actually gonna dedicate the next three months after that in the studio to organizing our ideas.
“There’s a lot of stages in the process. And much of it is just every day — we all have ideas and when they’re good, when we like them, we kind of save them or memorize them. But then 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. Before the summer, we’re gonna spend those few months really organizing our ideas. We already know what we like. We’ve all shared our individual ideas with each other, and we have a really good pile of stuff. You have to make those decisions, and you have to kind of wrestle with each other a bit to get to that next stage.
“And then you have to record it, which is a whole another thing as well. You go into the studio, and you have to — it’s like a pregnancy almost. When you go to the studio, you have to make this final decision of how it’s gonna sound and how you’re gonna play it, and it’s gonna live like that forever. So it’s a real delicate thing to be able to pull off. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that we take a long time at all. I think that’s only natural, and that’s why I’m proud of it, because it was worked on really hard.”
Chancellor later mentioned that he feels new Tool will surface within the next two years, but he’s not sure what form it’ll take. Which echoes what the band has been saying for a little while now.
“Yeah, well, the other thing is the climate of releasing music has completely changed, especially when you take a long time to make new music. It’s always a bit different when it comes out. So, we’ve talked about releasing a single, just one song— we could do that. We could also release an EP. And I think because we have such a dedicated fan base, everyone’s gonna be up for it. They’ll all be interested, whatever the way it comes out. So we might not necessarily have to really wrestle out a whole album. We talked about the option of just maybe doing it a little differently and doing a song at a time. Or you could release a single and then another single, another single, and then after a year of releasing singles, you could put them all together on a record and make that an album.
“I’m not really answering your question fully, but it doesn’t really have any rules when you’re making music,” he explained. “We’re just kind of making it up. But I can tell you that we absolutely have to write new music to continue doing what we’re doing. We wouldn’t be happy just to just sit on our laurels and play the same stuff over and over again. We really want to create new music to be able to continue doing what we love. So it’s coming. Trust me.”
(via Blabbermouth)
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