Finally! After years of waiting Tool is workin on a new album.
While the American rock band has yet to announce the release date for their album following "10,000 Days," Rolling Stone reported that following a favorable settlement from a lawsuit between the band and their label company, frontman Maynard James Keenan and the rest of the group are now working on new tracks.
Band guitarist Adam Jones revealed in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Music that fans could expect things to be done fans after the "lawsuit out of the way."
"Our greatest strength is jamming and coming up with stuff," Jones explained.
"We're doing that really well now and I'm excited about everything we're working on. Some of it's really heavy, some of it's complex and some is more atmospheric, but it's definitely Tool. I think having this lawsuit out of the way should really speed of the progress of getting the album done."
However, while Tool's progress with their new album is definitely moving forward fast, they've been really relax in working on new tracks, still they're not rushing into thingsand while "there's still a fire" on them it's not anymore comparable back when they were younger.
"We're older guys now," he explained. "Everyone kind of has their own life, and the fire that burned in us when we were in our 20s isn't there anymore. There's still a fire, it's just a different kind of fire. So of course, we're writing and working hard, but we've gotten to a point where we're relaxed and we're meeting occasionally to get the writing done instead of every day. But I feel like every day we work on the songs is a productive day and we're getting closer and closer to finishing them."
Like Jones, Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan candidly shared the band's progress for their new album on his Facebook account.
"I've been making regular trips to check on the writing progress of my Tool brethren... I'm as anxious to get this album completed as everyone else, but as history will show, you can't rush these gents."
Speaking to Loud Wire, the 51-year-old metal singer shared their experience in dealing with the lengthy lawsuit, which took eight years before reaching a favorable settement.
"We moved over to a North L.A. courthouse and we had a brand-new judge, who was fantastic," Keenan said of the lawsuit. "You know what his name was? Randy Rhodes! I knew the power of metal, and my appreciation of metal was someday going to be like a guardian angel."
"We're going to trial and we want to crush them. But every time we've gotten close to going to trial, it gets postponed and we've wasted money and time and it has just drained our creative energy. We bought an insurance policy for peace of mind, but instead we would have been better off if we never had it and just dealt with the original lawsuit."
If Tool would be able to speed up the process of their new album the release date could indeed happen sometime this year, which was earlier reported.
