Hopefully through aging you do find wisdom in some of the things you've encountered. Singer Maynard James Keenan added: "I feel like this is wisdom through age, through experience. It's making those choices that are important to you and moving on and growing." I'm just gonna be comfortable.' So it's about the little things in life. Things like, 'I'm gonna wear socks with sandals.
He explained, "That has to do with getting older, too. In a cover story on the band by Revolver magazine, guitarist Adam Jones spoke about the meaning of the title "Fear Inoculum". But we don't try to write the songs to have that direction by any means, you know, we just kind of do what we do, and if we're lucky enough to get a song that has that type of a hook or a hit potential, then we go with it." "It's obvious when songs have that solid of a hook to 'em and just have a more straight-ahead groove and aren't quite as long maybe as some of the other ones are," he said. A limited-edition version of the set, priced at $45, will come with a four-inch HD screen featuring exclusive video footage, a USB charging cable, a two-watt speaker and a 36-page insert book.ĭrummer Danny Carey told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that TOOL never thinks about radio airplay when he and his bandmates write songs. The 85-minute, seven-song "Fear Inoculum" album arrives on August 30. 93 on the survey in its first week of release. With a running time of 10 minutes and 23 seconds, the track has landed at No. In other news, TOOL's latest single, "Fear Inoculum", the title track of the band's long-awaited new album, has become the longest song in history to enter the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album bounds back on to the list with 33,000 equivalent album units earned, of which 18,000 were in album sales. 2 in 1996 - was released via digital retailers and streaming services for the first time on August 2, along with most of the band's catalog.
The set - which debuted and peaked at No. TOOL is Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar) and Maynard James Keenan (vocals).According to Billboard, TOOL's "Ænima" has re-entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. The band has won four GRAMMY Awards®: Best Metal Performance (1998, "Ænima"), Best Metal Performance (2002, “Schism”), Best Recording Package (2007, 10,000 Days) and Best Metal Performance (2020, "7empest"). NME awarded Fear Inoculum a perfect five-stars and said it is "…so much more than just an album," The Guardian declared the release "a legacy album," Visions dubbed the 10-track collection "a perfect version of a TOOL record" and Kerrang! said "TOOL go beyond their own frontiers." It debuted atop numerous country’s sales charts, shattering sales and radio records while also earning widespread critical praise.
Their last album, Fear Inoculum arrived in August of 2019, following years of anticipation.