Metal Anarchy

It took Tool 13 years to release their new album “Fear Inoculum,” but it looks like fans may not have to wait quite as long for the band’s next. During a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Danny Carey revealed that the group still have “tons of material” and that he his hoping to begin work on a new record after the touring cycle for their current one.

Carey said the following when asked about the group’s future plans:

“It’s hard to say. We’re going to tour on this probably for two or three years at least, I imagine. It feels like what we’ve done on every album, and then I guess we’ll see where we’re sitting after that.

My hope is we get in and knock out another record. We have tons of material. It’s not going to take 12 years, or if it does, I’ll probably be so old I probably can’t pick up my sticks any more! But my hope is we’ll do another record and just keep moving forward.”

He also added the following about “Fear Inoculum” marking the end of the band’s five-album deal:

“There’s more motivation. The carrot on the stick has gotten larger because now we’ll be free agents – we don’t have to deal with a record company or if we do, we deal with it on our terms, because we can do whatever we want now.

This is the last record of a five-album deal, so that’s a good feeling and I hope that will be motivational in the writing processes.”

Carey then continued after being asked how much material they have:

“There are no leftover Tool songs because of the process it takes to compose our songs – the way we hash it out in a room with all three or four of us, that there’s tons of riffs and jams and things. But there’s no put-together songs that are sitting in the eaves.

It’ll take a process of doing it. And if we do do another album, it’ll take three years after touring. That’s just the way it is with our band.”