Tool fans approach the six-year mark since the release of Fear Inoculum, hopes for a quicker follow-up are understandably mixed.

Remember how there was a 13 year gap between Tool ‘s two most recent records, 10,000 Days (2006) and Fear Inoculum (2019)?

Never knowingly rushed, Tool have released just five full-length albums during their 30-plus year career. The fourth of these, 2006’s 10,000 Days, found them wading deep into progressive waters ...

Tool are notorious for taking their sweet time between albums, especially the 13 years between 2006’s 10,000 Days and 2019’s Fear Inoculum.

When Tool released their latest album Fear Inoculum back in 2019, it was the band’s first new release since 2006’s 10,000 Days. That’s a long fuckin’ time for new music from any band, let alone one ...

Justin Chancellor discusses the future of Tool's next album and also celebrates the release of MTVoid's new record, 'Matter's Knot, Pt. 1.' ...

Then, five years later in 2006, we got the 10,000 Days album, which would be their last offering for a significant period of time.

As the show unfurled, songs from 2006’s “10,000 Days” album like “Jambi,” “The Pot” and “Rosetta Stoned” — a song about getting probed by an alien — were intermixed with ...