I took a picture pointing to the number seven while we were recording, and a lot of the riffs Justin and I brought in were in seven. You don’t really go ‘I’m going to write a riff in seven!’

You just write a riff and you count it out and it turns out to be in seven. Without being too descriptive about the concept, the main thing is that the seven beat just kept coming up, and riffs in seven kept coming up. It was really weird!

When we finished recording, I went to the guys and said ‘I think we should called the record Volume 7’ because a lot of the songs are in seven and there are seven tracks on the record.

Then Maynard told me about a whole concept he had about the number seven. We were all like, ‘Oh My God! This is too weird!’ Then Alex Grey [Tool album artist] basically said the same thing and he has a concept that will reveal itself through video.

So there are a lot of rhythms and polyrhythms where we explore 7/4 or 7/3, and there’s a riff we count in 21 — which we count as three rounds of seven. I wrote a four-minute lead over something counted in 21, which is crazy!

In July 2017, Maynard's friend Joe Rogan described his writing process in his podcast; "He wrote a song to the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical sequence. It starts from one, the next number is one, and the next number being two, creates the 2+1 which is three, continuing in this mathematical progression. That's how they found the chord progression. It began linking up to the Fibonacci sequence." The syllables Maynard sings in the first verse follow the first six numbers in the pattern, ascending and descending in the sequence 1-1-2-3-5-8-5-3. "Black (one), then (one), white are (two), all I see (three), in my infancy (five). Red and yellow then came to be (eight), reaching out to me (five). Lets me see (three)." In the next verse, Maynard begins with the seventh number of the Fibonacci sequence (13), implying a missing verse in between. He descends back down with the following pattern; 13-8-5-3. "As below so above and beyond I imagine (13). Drawn beyond the lines of reason (eight). Push the envelope (five). Watch it bend (three)." The second verse adds the missing line to complete the sequence; "There is (two), so (one), much (one), more and (two), beckons me (three), to look through to these (five), infinite possibilities (eight)." 1-1-2-3-5-8-5-3-2-1-1-2-3-5-8-13-8-5-3.

Tool being mega pretentious is nothing new, they've always had their heads so far up their asses that they were on the verge of choking on their own heads. See: the Fibonacci shit with Lateralus or the whole "play two different songs on 10,000 Days at the same time and it'll form a new song" or the frankly hilarious deep dives on the wiki pages for various songs and albums. Paragraphs about fans wracking their brains over what "Stinkfist" is about because aw jeez they'd never write something so obvious or this one I'll never forget that went something along the lines of "the song is heavily based on the concept of [some latin word] which is the concept of fitting three beats into the space of two".

That's a triplet. The word you're thinking of is "triplet" you pretentious fucks.

Honestly I don't even think Tool is that bad. They're pretty good at the Freak Kitchen/Primus thing where they make their songs very catchy and enjoyable despite all the weird shit they put in them, I've just never met a Tool fan I didn't want to give a swirlie.

Honestly I don't even think Tool is that bad. They're pretty good at the Freak Kitchen/Primus thing where they make their songs very catchy and enjoyable despite all the weird shit they put in them, I've just never met a Tool fan I didn't want to give a swirlie.

I'll never forget that went something along the lines of "the song is heavily based on the concept of [some latin word] which is the concept of fitting three beats into the space of two".

That's a triplet. The word you're thinking of is "triplet" you pretentious fucks.

New Song "Fear Inoculum"

what the fuck is that cover art

Apparently the CD Edition of the Album will have a 4 Inch display in which this cover art will be shown animated, as well as loudspeakers. Speculation though.It's 60-100 dollars in several online shops.

Edit:
The Amazon Product page seems to confirm this:
Fear Inoculum is the long awaited new album from TOOL, and the band's first new album in 13 years. The album will be available digitally, and in a special Limited Edition physical package that includes a CD in a tri-fold Soft Pack Video Brochure featuring a 4" HD rechargeable screen with exclusive video footage, a USB charging cable, a 2 watt speaker and a 36 page insert book and MP3 download card.

This is the thing. I really enjoyed Tool when I was in high school (1998-2001), but the other people that were into them drove me SO fucking nuts, I just stopped listening to them for years. I've since realized how ridiculous that is, but man, they do have one of the most obnoxious fan bases ever.

A Lifelong Tool Fan's Desperate Plea For the Band to Never Release the New Album:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/m ... -released/

And this is why Tool fans fucking suck. This unappreciative, entitled asshole “fan” needs to fuck right off with his “keep pure things pure by not releasing anything” talk.

A Lifelong Tool Fan's Desperate Plea For the Band to Never Release the New Album:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/m ... -released/

Are you talking about a hemiola? That's the opposite of a triplet.

The new song does sound like Tool, yes... but it sounds too much like Tool.

Tool have built on their sound and experimented with more or less every album that they've released. No two albums have sounded the exact same, stylistically (with the possible exception of Opiate and Undertow). The new single has all the elements that define Tool, yes, but it's so forced, it's not even funny. "Sure, we can put tribal drumming in the soft sections and it'll sound like Tool!" I have a strong suspicion that they haven't made any efforts at writing anything during their 13-year absence, and they're sounding not like Tool but somebody trying to imitate Tool.

Oh, and I also see that Maynard has finally discovered the joys of Auto-Tune.

Justin Chancellor, Tool’s bassist, offered his take on why the band’s process has been so drawn out, and the difficulty of approaching the creative process the way they do. “Sometimes I thought we were nearly there,” he told MH. “We’d written an album or we had some songs that were cool, and then we’d dump the whole lot and start again. It was devastating.”

Yeah I got owned