Tool Reveals Message About Winter 2016 Tour Dates


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Tool has released a cryptic message on their website and Facebook account tonight, for the first time acknowledging a possible new headline tour of the USA this winter, a potential idea of the opening band(s) and perhaps the approaching new Tool album, all expected in 2016.

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SOMETHING WICKED THIS… YOUR WAY COMES!

For those of you who only like NEWS about TOOL, here’s something that should be of great interest. The impenetrable veil of my dark scrying mirror FINALLY CLEARED today – enough so, in fact – that I could perceive a large heptagram on a complexly lit stage where four performers were dwarfed by dramatic video projections. Evidently the sonic and visual extravaganza that I was receiving is a rare glimpse of FUTURE TOOL U.S.A. TOUR DATES in the month of JANUARY, 2016 e.v. However, with some of the images in the depths of the black glass not being clearly distinct… YET, fans will have to keep checking back (SOON) on the Tool websites and Tool facebook page for an official announcement containing a list of the SHOW DATES, CITIES and VENUES, as well as for info about a tour support act(s). Regarding an opening band(s), what I was able to discern through the ever-shifting veil will in all likeliness be exciting to many Tool enthusiasts. STAY TUNED, FOLKS… as my trusty SCRYING MIRROR CONTINUES TO CLEAR…

 

Members of Tool have been evasive about future plans and tours until now. Recently enigmatic front man Maynard James Keenan gave a rare and wide ranging interview to the Phoenix New Times newspaper in which he offered no release date for a new Tool album.

On the whereabouts of the next Tool album.

“There’s nothing to say. I can’t.”

tool as led zeppelin photo credit Rynne Stump

Tool dressed as Led Zeppelin at Monster Mash Music Festival. Photo credit: Rynne Stump

Tool recently headlined the first Monster Mash Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona on Halloween. To mark the special occasion of the show, the bands’ first performance in 17 months and their only performance of 2015, the band dressed as Led Zeppelin famously did in their 1976 concert film The Song Remains The Same (Swan Song/Atlantic). Opening their rendition of Led Zeppelin’s ‘No Quarter’, Tool played a career spanning set for over two-hours which included a new instrumental song, ‘Descending’. Maynard James Keenan is currently on tor with his other band Puscifer. Puscifer’s new album Money Shot (Puscifer Entertainment) is out now. 

 


Tool Frontman Won’t Speculate On New Album Release Date


Maynard James Keenan of Tool, photo credit Jim Louvau

Maynard James Keenan of Tool, photo credit Jim Louvau

Tool Front man Maynard James Keenan gave a rare and wide ranging interview to the Phoenix New Times newspaper in which he offered no release date for a new Tool album, dismissed obsessive fans, and praised one of his other bands, Puscifer as more versatile outlet for his talents.

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On experimentation and Tool versus Puscifer comparisons

“I experiment with all these places I’ve been… I’m experimenting with grapes in Arizona, I mean, come on. Everything’s an experiment. But I feel Puscifer has more breadth . . . We can do animation, film, music, scores.”

 

On the role of comedy in his art:

“It’s weird. It shouldn’t be. I mean, this one’s named dick, this one’s named vagina. That’s the start there, okay?”

“Yeah, it’s there. But people miss it because they’re so focused on the other bullshit.”
“It’s lost. Insufferable people . . . It’s just ridiculous, retards. I’m sorry. Can’t help them. Way too serious. Too much. Lighten up.”

 

On playing Monster Mash Music Festival on Halloween, the only Tool show booked for 2015

 

“No, they (the other members of Tool) had to con me into it.”

 

On the whereabouts of the next Tool album.

“There’s nothing to say. I can’t.”

 

Tool headlines the inaugural Monster Mash Music Fest in Tempe Arizona this Saturday. Get tickets here:

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