Tool were among the acts to perform at last weekend’s Power Trip festival in California, and the alternative rockers are currently on a North American tour.
It took 13 years for Tool to release their 2019 album “Fear Inoculum,” but fortunately for fans of the band, it doesn’t look like they’ll have to wait that long for the follow-up. Tool bassist Justin Chancellor said the group is planning to hit the studio once tour dates wrap next year.
“We’ve got many ideas cooking. We haven’t recorded anything yet,” Chancellor told The Vinyl Guide.
“But we’re quite busy until — I guess until after the spring of next year touring. So once that’s done, we’re gonna get back in the studio and knuckle down and put some of it together. We’ve already had a few pretty decent sessions of writing. So we’ve got the ingredients in place. We’ve just gotta really bang it out and spend that time when we’re not touring.”
Chancellor also said that the band has leftover ideas from “Fear Inoculum” that they plan to revisit.
“Yeah, tons from the last album. We have tons of ideas, but not recorded to the standard we’d put on an album. Just kind of, I’d say, lots of demoed stuff. And then just tons of ideas just kind of stored away.”
