New Tool Album Is ‘Progressing Nicely,’ Says Maynard James Keenan

Prog-metal band Tool have been working on their first new album since 2006, and according to frontman Maynard James Keenan, the songwriting process is “progressing nicely.” While nothing has been recorded just yet, fans of the band are eagerly awaiting Tool’s return to form.

Keenan posted the following on Instagram:

 

I’ve been making regular trips to LA to check on the writing progress of my Tool brethren. Things a progressing nicely. Slowly, but definitely progressing. Nothing is recorded yet, but the guys are confident that the pieces are coming together swimmingly and will be ready for me to begin writing melodies and content ‘soon’. I’m as anxious to get this album completed as everyone else. But as history will show, you can’t rush these gents. Patience is Gold in this Sound Mine. In the meantime, as always, other things are simultaneously occurring. Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

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Meanwhile, Tool drummer Danny Carey has been keeping himself busy, jamming with Stewart Copeland and Neil Peart and working with Mastodon frontman Brent Hinds on their new supergroup, the Legend of the Seagullmen.