Tool Recording Fifth Studio Album scheduled for release in May 2012

January 4, 2012 by Mark Muehling // #tool #2012 #newalbum #dellorckir #maynard #keenan #HideUrKidsHideUrWife

One of the albums we’re looking forward to the most in 2012 is the fifth studio album from the masters of art metal — Tool. The band has been writing the new material for some time now, leaving everyone curious about whether or not the highly anticipated follow-up to ’10,000 Days’ will surface in the new year.

Speaking to MTV.com, Keenan revealed: "We're going to start writing the new Tool record right away." He gave no word on when the group would begin recording, but the band's touring schedule is currently wide open.

Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan has been busy with other bands of late — his side project Puscifer just released their sophomore record ‘The Conditions of My Parole’ and are in the midst of embarking on the second leg of the supporting tour. Prior to that outing he had reconvened with A Perfect Circle for a limited tour run in mid 2011. Now that his schedule seems to be opening up a bit, Maynard will hit the road with Tool for some dates prior to the next leg of the Puscifer tour this January.

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Though it is unlikely they will play any new songs on the tour, once those and the Puscifer dates have passed (March 18th being the last) — Maynard will likely get more involved Tool’s next album. In October he gave a status report on the new material and explained the band’s creative process to Loudwire:

“I’m allowing them [the other members of Tool] their space to do what they do, so we’re still in that mode. Even if they told me how close they are to being done, I couldn’t tell you because if I say 60 percent people will start counting down. When it’s done everyone will know. But I haven’t done anything yet. They write forever and then we go in and knock it all out. We’re writing. We’re writing vocals. But nothing’s solid. With Puscifer, there’s ideas and then we’ll record stuff. Then we’ll go back and change stuff and fix stuff and record new stuff before we finally put it all together. But with Tool, we practice jams, but there’s no actual recording going on until it’s time to record.”

There has been no indication of what direction the new material will go, but if their back-catalog’s natural progression has taught us anything — the new record will be heavy, melodic, weird, and brilliant. Hopefully we get to confirm those assumptions in 2012.The album is rumored to be titled "Dellor Ckir" with tracks so far including "Pyrometheus", "Seperation" and "Dellor Ckir".

Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husbands cuz Tool is gonna be rapin' errbody out heeya in 2012

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