Watch Tool Debut Their First New Music In Over A Decade
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Rejoice: Tool have just unveiled their first new music in over 10 years.
The band debuted the two tracks during their set at Welcome to Rockville in Florida just a few hours ago — they’re titled ‘Descending’ and ‘Invincible’, respectfully. An instrumental version of ‘Descending’ has been bouncing around for a while, but this is the first time we’ve heard it complete with vocals.
The new songs are (we assume) the first look at Tool’s incredibly long-awaited new album, which would be the follow-up to 2006’s 10,000 Days. They’ve been promising the new album for years — they initially said it would be delivered way back in 2014, but that deadline came and went with no new music surfacing.
It looked somewhat likely that 2017 could be the magical year: the band were booked to headline a number of festivals, and their bassist Justin Chancellor said the band were “about 90 percent there“. In 2018, drummer Danny Carey claimed it would be released that year…which also turned out to not be true.
The band are currently at the start of a long tour — so who knows when the album will actually surface (although frontman Maynard James Keenan has flagged it should be the middle of the year). For now though, we have two new tracks to get around — watch fan footage of them below.