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After their latest and really successful album Fear Inoculum from 2019, fans have been eagerly waiting for new material from Tool. Now, in a recent interview, the band members have commented on how the work on new music is going – and there’s good news: the first steps have already been taken, as guitarist Adam Jones revealed in a conversation with Loudwire Nights:
"We want to get another record out and play, do what we do. The three of us have been jamming. I don't know if you go, oh, the writing process has started. It's always there. Between preparing for an upcoming tour or whatever we're doing, there's points where someone goes, oh, I got this and I got this. But I think we're going to dive deep soon."
That there are already many ideas circulating was also confirmed by bassist Justin Chancellor in an interview with Summa Inferno. While the band members are still on tour at the moment, a clear plan for the time afterward is already in place:
"When we get back from [our] trip — I think it's only three weeks we're gonna be — but we have already shared with each other a lot of these new ideas, but when we get back, we're actually gonna dedicate the next three months after that in the studio to organizing our ideas."
In addition to the creative processes in the studio, the band is also concerned with the question of how the new tracks should even be released:
"Yeah, well, the other thing is the climate of releasing music has completely changed… We've talked about releasing a single, just one song — we could do that. We could also release an EP… Or you could release a single and then another single, another single, and then after a year of releasing singles, you could put them all together on a record and make that an album."
