With an album on the way and a recently announced Australian tour, Tool is currently the talk of the music community. Now, while doing the press rounds, drummer Danny Carey has given us even more reason to get excited. While holding his cards close to his chest, Carey has given a 2013 release date for the new album, detailed a 20-minute long track and also confessed he was the previously unnamed member of the band who stacked it on his scooter.
Earlier this week, Maynard James Keenan had dealt the awful blow that the album won’t be released this year, but Carey has confirmed to TheRockFM (Via Loudwire) that the record will drop “some time this year”. He continued, “”That’s all I can say… The sooner the better for us. We’re working every day but you can never predict it, honestly. We’re really excited about it so I hope all the fans will be too.” It also appeared that bassist Justin Chancellor is the “main driving force” to get the album finished.
It would also seem that the band is gearing up for another release to drop not too long after the album. With “tons of stuff recorded”, Tool are looking to funnel all their unused live material into a CD or DVD. Carey stated, “I hope we do make that happen one of these days. We have lots of video stuff too; we could do a DVD or two whenever we get around to it. We’re kind of trying to focus on the new thing now, so we’ll go back at some point and do it.”
The new album will also contain a 20-minute long epic. “We’re still – believe it or not! – still working on it,” he joked of the track, further explaining that the song is constantly taking on new forms:
“It’s probably going to turn into a thing that’s, like, a big trilogy type of feel to it, sort of like Disposition and Intension and Triad, like on the Lateralus record or something. It will probably be over a 20-minute piece when it’s all finished, so it will be a good part of the record. We’re dealing with it in sections, but it’s coming together really well, we’re having lots of fun working on it, that’s for sure.”
The entire future of the band had a bit of a question mark above its head when Keenan recently announced that a previously unnamed member of the outfit was in a bit of a nasty scooter prang. We now know Carey was the dude he was talking about. “It’s been tough lately because I cracked four ribs,” as Carey put it, adding that he broke three of them in the accident, so he’s been taking some down time:
“It was just over in the San Fernando Valley, I was just turning to go on the freeway, and I think I hit some antifreeze or oil or something, and the wheels just slipped right out from under me, and I just hit the pavement really hard. [Laughs] … Yeah, I’m still in one piece anyway, but I don’t know how lucky I was the way I feel right now [Laughs]. It’s pretty painful, but some painkillers and some scotch will get you through it.”
The whole Tool gang will be in town this April for their Australian tour. We live in hope that the band will be road testing the new goods while they’re here.
