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Tool Announce 2023 North American Tour Dates

Tool have announced a 2023 North American tour that's set to kick off this fall.

The run begins with a Sept. 22 appearance at the Louder Than Life Festival and after that, it's back out on the road from Oct. 3 through Nov. 21 as the band makes stops in the U.S. and Canada with additional festival stops (Aftershock, Power Trip) in the mix as well.

See all of the upcoming dates below and look for non-festival tickets to go on sale on June 9 at 10AM local time. Pre-sale tickets, meanwhile, will be offered to the Tool Army starting June 8 at 10AM local time. Head here for additional Tool Army information.

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In late February, Adam Jones shared a video on his Instagram story rehearsing the  10,000 Days  track "Rosetta Stoned" with Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey. The band's fans were freaked out on Reddit over the clip because the song hasn't been played much at all over the last decade. They performed it a handful of times in 2018, and prior to that, it hadn't been part of their setlist since 2009, so perhaps we'll see the rockers bring it back around during this upcoming run.

Tool 2023 North American Tour Dates

Sept. 22 — Louisville, Ky. @ Louder Than Life Festival Oct. 03 — Loveland, Colo. @ Budweiser Event Center Oct. 06 — Sacramento, Calif. @ Aftershock Festival Oct. 08 — Indio, Calif. @ Power Trip Oct. 11 — Salt Lake City, Utah @ Delta Center Oct. 12 — Idaho Falls, Idaho @ Mountain America Center Oct. 14 — Nampa, Idaho @ Ford Idaho Center Oct. 15 — Spokane, Wash. @ Spokane Arena Oct. 17 — Eugene, Ore. @ Matthew Knight Center Oct. 19 — Portland, Ore. @ Moda Center Oct. 20 — Tacoma, Wash. @ Tacoma Dome Oct. 22 — Kelowna, British Columbia @ Prospera Place Arena Oct. 23 — Vancouver, British Columbia @ Rogers Arena Oct. 25 — Edmonton, Alberta @ Rogers Place Oct. 27 — Calgary, Alberta @ Scotiabank Saddledome Oct. 29 — Winnipeg, Manitoba @ Canada Life Center Oct. 31 — St. Paul, Minn. @ Xcel Energy Center Nov. 01 — Milwaukee, Wis. @ Fiserv Forum Nov. 03 — Knoxville, Tenn. @ Thompson-Boiling Arena Nov. 04 — Charleston, W.V. @ Charleston Coliseum Nov. 06 — Rochester, N.Y. @ Blue Cross Arena Nov. 07 — Allentown, Pa. @ PPL Center Nov. 10 — Uncasville, Ct. @ Mohegan Sun Arena Nov. 13 — Manchester, N.H. @ SNHU Arena Nov. 15 — Boston, Mass. @ TD Garden Nov. 16 — Philadelphia, Pa. @ Wells Fargo Center Nov. 19 — Montreal, Quebec @ Bell Center Nov. 20 — Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena Nov. 21 — Toronto, Ontario @ Scotiabank Arena

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TOOL: North American Release Date For '10,000 Days' Announced

According to Billboard.com , Volcano has set a May 2 North American release date for the new TOOL album, entitled "10,000 Days" . The 77-minute, 11-song prog-metal odyssey, which is said to be "packed with plenty of eight minute-plus twisted riff-a-thons, odd-tempo polyrhythms and the band's trademark, eerie interludes" (according to Kerrang! magazine),is the follow-up to 2001's "Lateralus" , which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 2.3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan .

As previously reported, TOOL will play their first U.S. show since late 2002 when it headlines the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 30 in Indio, Calif. No other U.S. dates have been confirmed.

Afterward, TOOL will spend the first portion of the summer playing the European festival circuit, with dates on tap through July 9 at Finland's Turku Festival .

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May 26 - Lisbon, POR @ Parque Tejo May 27 - Madrid, SPA @ Festimad May 29 - Barcelona, SPA @ Razzmatazz May 30 - Villeurbanne, FRA @ Transbordeur May 31 - Luxembourg, LUX @ Rockhal Jun. 02 - Nurburgring, GER @ Rock am Ring Jun. 03 - Nuremberg, GER @ Rock im Park Jun. 04 - Landgraaf, NETH @ Pink Pop Festival Jun. 05 - Hamburg, GER @ Sporthalle Jun. 07 - Berlin, GER @ Columbiahalle Jun. 08 - Dusseldorf, GER @ Phillipshalle Jun. 09 - Donington, UK @ Download Festival Jun. 17 - Nickelsdorf, AUT @ Nova Rock Festival Jun. 19 - Milan, ITA @ Filaforum Jun. 21 - Rome, ITA @ Foro Italico Center Jun. 22 - Bologna, ITA @ L.R. Arena Jun. 24 - Katowice, POL @ Spodek Jun. 25 - Prague, CZR @ T-Mobile Arena Jun. 28 - Paris, FRA @ Le Zenith Jun. 29 - Werchter, BEL @ Rock Werchter Festival Jul. 01 - Roskilde, DEN @ Roskilde Festival Jul. 04 - Kristiansand, NOR @ Quart Festival Jul. 07 - Gothenburg, SWE @ Metal Town Festival Jul. 09 - Turku, FIN @ Turku Festival

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I have been waiting for over 20 yrs for Tool to come back to Dallas and Jam out. Well that's exactly what TOOL did on 22January2020 in Dallas, TX at American Airlines Arena. From start to end nothing but excellence from all 4 Gentleman. lanyards voice was Top form and the musician's jammed do hard I know they have to have blisters on their fingers. They are a very fine tuned head banging, fist in the air rocking Rock and Roll band of the Decade. If you happen to get a chance to see TOOL within the next 4 shows, only in the states, get there. Because you dont want to miss this show. SHOW OF THE YEAR!!!!! Guaranteed!!!

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Absolutely incredible show! The sound was perfect, the visuals were spectacular and the band sounded super-tight (no surprise there). That is no easy feat considering the complexity of their music (especially their new material). They're one of the very few bands that actually sound the same or better live than the studio album. Maynard is finally more visible on this tour as they've added two platforms on each side of the drum riser where he crouched, danced, slithered and delivered his exceptional vocals. He even engaged the crowd a little bit, which was shocking. You could tell he and all his band mates are in a good head space and were really enjoying themselves. Truly memorable show from one of the greatest rock bands ever!

The band was unreal as always.

I attended a Montreal show a couple of years back and this was just as good along with the addition of some new album tracks.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the crowd here. The fans were far more connected to the music in Montreal. They understood the ebb and flow.

But, for some reason, we've got fools in Toronto who show up, get trashed and are somehow louder than the band. People here don't seem to get the idea that they're there with 12 - 13 thousand other people so it's really not about them. But, hey, that's the maturity level of kids old enough to drink legally, but not self-aware...

If ever they're back again, I'll see them, but never at Scotia again.

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Tool: The Making Of 10,000 Days

As Tool's 10,000 Days album turns 10, Joe Barresi tells TeamRock the secrets behind the recording

On May 1, 2006, Tool released their album 10,000 Days in the UK.

Recorded in O’Henry Studios in Burbank, California between August and December of the previous year, the band self-produced their fourth studio effort with producer Joe Barresi, who engineered and mixed the tracks.

We visited Joe at his Pasadena studio to talk about his experiences working on 10,000 Days , and found him surrounded by souvenirs and curios from his career, which includes credits with Kyuss, Melvins, Nine Inch Nails and Parkway Drive.

There are Spinal Tap dolls on the table, boxes of monogrammed guitar picks, and a battered, flame-shaped guitar hanging on the wall. Joe was working in a different studio in Hollywood when he mixed this particular album, but he’s brought the memories with him; the homemade ‘pipe bomb’ mic used during recording sits on a shelf above his mixing desk.

What the hell is a ‘pipe bomb’ mic? And what did Tool force every studio visitor to watch for their own amusement?

Joe explains this and more, as he shares his memories of working with the band on this landmark release…

How did the recording process for 10,000 Days begin? Joe Barresi: “When I met the band for the first time, I remember standing outside their rehearsal room with their manager waiting for a song to end before we walked in. It sounded like eight guys were playing in that room. I thought Maynard must have been playing some percussion as well but that was all Danny [Carey, drums] – it blew my mind how he was triggering sounds in a computer by integrating the Mandala pads into his drum kit. I attended rehearsals for about a month to get to know the music better, and would take notes on when parts felt great and what may have been different. There’s no playing to a click track in that band, they’re so tuned into each other and it was incredible how they locked in and took the music to another level. I was trying to learn the arrangements and understand what they were playing; the time signatures and accents were a real challenge for me and the sheer power of the band in rehearsal was something I wanted to make sure we got on tape.”

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Did the band tell you exactly how they wanted the album to sound? “During rehearsals I’d listen and observe what the guys were playing, and ask if there was anything in their wildest imaginations they’d want to try. Then I’d have it built or bring gear by that might do the trick. Justin [Chancellor, bass] had played thru a Gallien-Krueger amp somewhere while guesting on another record so he was trying them out. Adam had an idea for a pedal that would crossfade sound from dry to wet, so I had a few different ones made until the guys at Barge Concepts made one that worked flawlessly. Maynard and I spoke of recording his voice in weird ways, and that’s where the pipe bomb mic came into being. It was a guitar pickup mounted onto a piece of pipe. It didn’t work at all for vocals but ended up on a guitar solo and sounded wild. Personally I thought the song Stinkfist off of Ænima was the perfect sounding Tool song so I used that as a benchmark, but with even more aggression if that was possible.”

You called in Bob Heil (inventor of the talkbox) and Joe Walsh from the Eagles to advise on the talkbox guitar solo on Jambi. What kind of things did they suggest? “Basically, we’d been trying out some of the Heil mics and we were introduced to Bob via the company that loaned us the gear. When it was time to cut the solo, we had listened to so many famous talkbox solos and Joe Walsh’s sound was the one that was the closest to what we were after. So we asked Bob if he could make the introduction, and Joe called Adam one day and told him some of the tricks he had used in the past to make his talkbox sound so rad. It was a really cool moment to get tips from a master like that.”

Apart from the ‘pipe bomb’ was there any other kind of DIY experimentation? “There was loads of experimentation. We recorded to tape so the intro to The Pot was actual print-through. I got that cool pre-echo the natural way, not with digital gimmicks. I had Maynard sing into snare drums with the heads resonating, recorded vocals an octave high or low and at different speeds, then slowed them down (or sped them up) on tape to alter the pitch and timbre of his voice. We recorded some bass parts by mic-ing Justin’s fingers… There were so many things.”

10,000 Days is known as a very spiritual album, with the title referring to Saturn’s orbit. Did you have any conversations about deep, philosophical topics while you were in the studio? “The only spiritual moment for me was when Maynard sang the song Wings For Marie [which references his mother’s illness]. He didn’t have to say what it was about, I got chills because his performance and the lyrics were so emotional. He really delivered a memorable vocal and we both had to take a break after that one.”

What was the most memorable moment in the studio? “There were many memorable moments, but I can just say this – hanging out with those guys was a pleasure. We didn’t disagree, I was there to facilitate whatever it was they were trying to achieve. We were friendly during the making of the record and still are to this day – although nothing is as close to being in a room with someone for 12 hours a day. We played a lot of Guitar Hero ; I remember that game coming out back then and I turned the guys onto it. That was a good pastime in the lounge, as well as making anyone who came to the studio sit through R. Kelly’s Trapped In The Closet DVD. Priceless entertainment.”

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9 things you never knew about Tool’s 10,000 Days

Ready to have your mind blown by Tool’s mind-bending 10,000 Days all over again?

Here’s a quick look at the lesser-known facts around Tool 's last opus, 10,000 Days, released back in 2006…

1 10,000 days is roughly the orbital period of the planet Saturn

Well, technically speaking, it’s 10,759 days – which equates to nearly 29.5 years. And it’s this philosophical notion of the Saturn Return that Maynard James Keenan once revealed as the meaning behind the title. “That’s the time in your 28th/29th year when you are presented the opportunity to transform from whatever your hang-ups were before to let the light of knowledge and experience lighten your load, so to speak, and let go of old patterns and embrace a new life,” he reasoned.

“It’s kind of the story of Noah, and the belly of the whale. You sink or swim at that point. And a lot of people don’t make it. Hendrix didn’t, Janis Joplin didn’t, John Bonham. Kurt Cobain didn’t quite make it past his Saturn Return. For me, starting to recognise those patterns, it was very important to start constructing songs that chronicled that process, hoping that my gift back would be to share that path and hope that I could help somebody get past that spot.”

2 10,000 days could also be a reference to Maynard’s mother

Some fans believe that the length of time refers to how long the frontman’s mother, Judith Marie, was left paralysed following a stroke in the mid-’70s before her passing in 2003. There certainly is some connection considering one of the tracks is titled Wings For Marie (Pt. 1) – and it wouldn’t be the first time Maynard has referenced her either, his debut single with A Perfect Circle sharing her first name.

In 2010 documentary Blood Into Wine, the singer/wine producer explained that his Nagual Del Judith cabernet sauvignon was “named after my mother, Judith Marie. She passed away several years ago. She was an invalid for almost 30 years. She had an aneurysm when she was about 31. It left her paralysed on the right side of her body, and so she couldn’t really do a lot of travelling, couldn’t do much of anything really – read, write, speak, walk, tell time. You know, having to live roughly 29 years in that state.”

There’s a touching moment where the singer reveals how he chose to continue her journey through his adventures in viticulture. “It just kind of felt like this was the obvious solution, to spread her ashes over the vineyard,” he reflected. “That way, she kind of comes back in the form of vines and grapes, and she gets to travel the world now and see other places.”

3 Fans have created their own secret track

Heavy number-crunching from arguably the most eagle-eyed fans in rock revealed that adding Wings For Marie (Pt. 1) to Viginti Tres made for a piece of music 11 minutes and 13 seconds long – which, as it happens, was the exact same length as 10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2). Playing both of these compositions simultaneously sounds like the recipe for insanity, yet doing so unlocks a new ‘secret song’ that somehow fits together.

It’s one hell of an Easter egg – though whether it was intentional is up for debate. As is the Tool way, it’s never been acknowledged by the band, though in 2014 Adam Jones did say this of such notions: “All I say is don’t read too much into it – ‘Dude, I got high and I played it backwards to The Sound Of Music…‘ That’s just not there.”

4 Meshuggah were an influence

“We’ve all been listening to a lot of Meshuggah ,” guitarist Adam Jones told Kerrang! in the months building up to 10,000 Days’ release. The bands had previously toured together around their respective Lateralus and Nothing album cycles. “I see a lot of them in us and us in them,” he continued, noting “they really have a very experimental prog side to them. I don’t think it was like, ‘Okay right here we’re going to play like Meshuggah,’ but more, ‘Oh my god, that’s come out a Meshuggah moment!’”

These influences are most noticeable on second track Jambi – which utilises single-string riffs and polyrhythms that deviously bend and weave through different time signatures. Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström is one of the lucky few to have heard some of the quartet’s new music, describing it as “the best I’ve heard of Tool.”

5 The artwork incorporated Alex Grey painting The Net Of Being

Having first worked with Tool on Lateralus, Alex Grey’s eyeball-dissolving visuals would once again play a big part in the Tool aesthetic for album number four. The vision of infinite godheads came to him after consuming a psychedelic substance known as ayahuasca, used as spiritual medicine by indigenous Amazonians. In his 2017 interview as part of a Kerrang! Tool cover story, the visionary artist and spiritualist noted how the group “avoid the easy path and favour the hard, evolutionary road” and that “as sonic shamans, they are industrial strength psychedelic ‘Tools Of The Gods’, emitting visual and auditory resonance with the mysterium tremendum.”

Net Of Being image via AlexGrey.com

6 Alex also contributed to artwork for Nirvana and the Beastie Boys

“ Nirvana ’s manager requested the use of one of my paintings entitled Pregnant Female for the In Utero album,” Alex Grey told The Examiner in a 2013 interview. “I never met Kurt Cobain, but heard that he admired my art and promised to come to the studio the next time he was in New York. Then he died.”

The artist also spoke of how he came into contact with another much-missed rock legend, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys , who passed away in 2012. “Adam Yauch called asking to use the Gaia painting on the Ill Communications album,” he continued. “We spoke a few times on the phone and had lovely conversations when we ran into each other at Buddhist ceremonies and speaking engagements of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.”

7 Adam Jones called The Eagles to get his Talk Box sound right

It was in a 2006 interview with Guitar World where Adam Jones revealed the strange link between his band and The Eagles. It was the song Jambi, to be specific, which features the Talk Box effect famously heard on rock hits Sweet Emotion, Kickstart My Heart and Livin’ On A Prayer.

“I always wanted to use a Talk Box — I love Joe Walsh — but I never wanted to use it for the sake of using it,” said the guitarist. “We wrote this song and I knew that it was the song where the Talk Box would work really well. My friend who works for the Eagles’ booking agent talked to Joe Walsh and gave him my number. A while later I got a message from Joe on my answering machine: [imitates Walsh] ‘Adam Jones, this is the Talk Box fairy. Give me a call.’ I called him and he was totally cool and gave me a lot of advice. I think that the Talk Box on [The Eagles track] Those Shoes is really amazing, especially how the harmonies are in each speaker.”

8 Welsh industrial composer Lustmord contributed weather effects

The pouring rain and cracking thunder heard on 10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2) were courtesy of Lustmord (Brian Williams) – whose first live performance in 25 years took place in 2006 as part of the high mass observance by the Church Of Satan . It was an experience the musician described as “one of those things that was just too funny to say ‘no’ to”. The dark ambient pioneer had previously remixed official versions of Schism and Parabola and later went on to collaborate with Maynard James Keenan further in Puscifer .

9 Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) is an ode to the man who invented acid

Albert Hofmann made history as the first person to synthesize and experiment with the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide, as well as understand the properties within hallucinogenic mushrooms. The Swiss pioneer, who died in 2008 aged 102, described LSD as a “sacred drug” that worked as “medicine for the soul” and provided a “material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality.”

Similar words have been used by members of Tool and Alex Grey to describe their own mind-altering experiences. The exchange between a doctor, nurse and patient in Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) takes places after the events described in following track Rosetta Stoned, where it would appear the patient regales a drug-fuelled story of alien encounters, self-exploration and spiritual awakening.

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Tool Announce Fall 2023 North American Tour Dates

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Tool have announced a fall tour of North America. Following a performance Louisville’s Louder Than Life in September, the band will play arena shows in October and November. The trek also includes a performance at Indio’s Power Trip . Find Tool’s tour dates below.

Earlier this year, Tool headlined Florida’s Welcome to Rockville and Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio. The band also toured North America last year, but did not perform in Canada. On their upcoming tour, Tool will play Canadian shows for the first time since 2019 .

At Welcome to Rockville, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan also performed with another one of his bands, Puscifer. He made headlines by performing in a blonde wig, red lipstick, and prosthetic breasts, which many saw as a defiant act against Florida’s restrictive laws against drag shows. Keenan, however, said his choice of attire “had nothing to do with Florida.” The singer told The Messenger , “I’ve been cross-dressing since long before these clickbait-junkie dupes were out of diapers.” He added, “It’s pretty crazy the technology and the prosthetics nowadays, how they’ve come along, and I just was considering bringing the look back.”

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TOOL Announce Dates For 2023 North American Tour

TOOL return to the road this Fall, expanding on their recently announced festival appearances (Power Trip, Aftershock and Louder Than Life) with an additional six weeks of performances, including the band’s first Canadian dates since 2019.

The tour announcement follows TOOL’s debut live performances of 2023, headlining both Welcome to Rockville and the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in recent weeks.

Tickets for all non-festival shows are on-sale this Friday, June 9 at 10 am local time. In advance of the forthcoming on-sale, TOOL Army has opened additional memberships, with pre-sale tickets available exclusively to members on June 8 at 10 am local time. A limited number of VIP packages will also be initially available to TOOL Army members, with remaining options, including premium tickets, soundcheck access, exclusive merchandise and more, available to the general public as the on-sale begins on June 9.

TOOL Tour Dates 2023:

September 22 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life Festival

October 3 Loveland, CO Budweiser Event Center

October 6 Sacramento, CA Aftershock Festival

October 8 Indio, CA Power Trip

October 10 Salt Lake City, UT Delta Center

October 12 Idaho Falls, ID Mountain America Center

October 14 Nampa, ID Ford Idaho Center

October 15 Spokane, WA Spokane Arena

October 17 Eugene, OR Matthew Knight Center

October 19 Portland, OR Moda Center

October 20 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome

October 22 Kelowna, BC Prospera Place Arena

October 23 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

October 25 Edmonton, AB Rogers Place

October 27 Calgary, AB Scotiabank Saddledome

October 29 Winnipeg, MB Canada Life Center

October 31 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center

November 1 Milwaukee, WI Fiserv Forum

November 3 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boiling Arena

November 4 Charleston, WV Charleston Coliseum

November 6 Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena

November 7 Allentown, PA PPL Center

November 10 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena

November 13 Manchester, NH SNHU Arena

November 15 Boston, MA TD Garden

November 16 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center

November 19 Montreal, QC Bell Center

November 20 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena

November 21 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena

Since the 2019 release of TOOL’s critically-acclaimed album, Fear Inoculum , the band has won a GRAMMY Award® (Best Metal Performance for “7empest”), completed sold-out tours of both the U.S. and Europe, and headlined Bonnaroo, Welcome to Rockville and the Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival. TOOL marked the 30th anniversary of the Opiate EP with the 2022 release of “ Opiate 2 ,” a re-imagining of the EP’s title track, released in tandem with a breathtaking, 10-minute short film crafted by Adam Jones and visual artist Dominic Hailstone (“Alien: Covenant”, “The Eel”).

Reviews from TOOL’s sold-out 2022 tours praised the four-piece, with Loudwiredubbing the performances as “a masterclass of immersion, sound and stage design, musicianship… and levels of ungodly tightness.” The Austin Chronicle described the incomparable live experience as an “unbridled exchange of catharsis between performers and fans.” More recently, Revolver, covering Welcome to Rockville 2023, said “TOOL delivered a stunning… set featuring classic fan favorites, newer Fear Inoculum standouts and choice deeper cuts … the striking visuals also included a psychedelic laser and projections show bar none.”

ABOUT TOOL: TOOL formed in 1990, releasing five studio albums: Undertow (1993), Ænima(1996), Lateralus (2001),10,000 Days (2006), and Fear Inoculum (2019); two EPs: 72826 (1991) and Opiate (1992), and the limited-edition boxset Salival (2000). The band has won four GRAMMY Awards®: Best Metal Performance (1998, “Ænima”), Best Metal Performance (2002, “Schism”), Best Recording Package (2007, 10,000 Days) and Best Metal Performance (2020, “7empest”). TOOL is Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar) and Maynard James Keenan (vocals).

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Tool's '10,000 Days'

For Tool fans, patience has always been an art. Five years elapsed between the release of 1996's Ænima and 2001's Lateralus , and the same delay preceded their fourth and most recent LP, 2006's 10,000 Days . In real time, the wait can be excruciating , but there's an upside to the glacial pace: Tool's albums are so sonically dense, so packed with obscure references, that it takes years to fully digest them. As of today, it's officially been a long-ass time since 10,000 Days , which makes this an ideal time to survey the most intriguing stories and details behind that modern classic.

1. No, the album title isn't some kind of future-snark prediction about how long it would take Tool to follow up their upcoming fifth LP. But multiple theories persist as to the real meaning. In an interview with writer Jon Wiederhorn , Keenan pegged the title to the astrological and philosophical notion of the "Saturn return," a reference to the planet's orbit around the sun.

"That's the time in your 28th, 29th year when you are presented the opportunity to transform from whatever your hang-ups were before to let the light of knowledge and experience lighten your load, so to speak, and let go of old patterns and embrace a new life," he said. "It's kind of the story of Noah, and the belly of the whale [ Noah built the Ark; Jonah was swallowed by the whale ]. You sink or swim at that point. And a lot of people don't make it. Hendrix didn't, Janis Joplin didn't, John Bonham. Kurt Cobain didn't quite make it past his Saturn Return. For me, starting to recognize those patterns, it was very important to start constructing songs that chronicled that process, hoping that my gift back would be to share that path and hope that I could help somebody get past that spot."

A more pervasive — and poignant — theory is that "10,000 Days" nods to the length of time between Maynard James Keenan's mother being paralyzed from an aneurysm and stroke and her death three years before the album's release. On the the two-part epic "Wings for Marie," the frontman seems to reference his mother, a devout Christian, and the pain of watching her suffer. "A passionate spirit/Uncompromised/Boundless and open/A light in your eyes, then immobilized," he sings over a psychedelic guitar drone. On the chorus, he intones, "It was you who prayed for me/So what have I done to be a son to an angel?"

While Keenan has rarely cited his mother as the song's direct inspiration, he did mention her in the "Judith" music video commentary from A Perfect Circle's 2004 CD-DVD set, aMOTION . "The song itself is called 'Judith,' which is my mother's name," he said. "She was paralyzed very early on from an aneurysm, and it just strengthened her faith, which is fine, because she didn't really have anything else but her faith."

2. Cover artist Alex Grey created his trippy front image of intersecting faces, " The Net of Being ," based on a "blazing vision of an infinite grid of Godheads during an ayahuasca journey." Guitarist Adam Jones, a key contributor to all the band's music videos, then worked with Grey on translating the painting into a 3D animation for their "Vicarious" clip. "The four members of Tool are very art-based, concentrating on theories of sacred geometry where we could take any kind of presentation and break it down into its most fundamental, simplest element and then build it back up from that, no matter what the subject of the song was," Jones said in a video interview . "I kind of see the same thing in Alex's work."

In a separate interview , Grey — whose work previously graced the cover sleeve of Nirvana's In Utero and the inner booklet of Beastie Boys' Ill Communication — discussed the intense challenges of painting his intense "DMT visions."

3. At various points on the album, Danny Carey triggers eerie samples and weird percussion noises using his custom Synesthesia Mandala drums. (They were released to the public in May 2006, the month the album was released. Killer promotion!) The album's engineer/mixer, Joe Barresi, has often recalled showing up to Tool's first album rehearsal and being dumbfounded by the amount of raw sound Carey produced with his tricked-out kit.

"When I first showed up to their rehearsal, I thought there were eight guys inside playing," he told Mix that year. "I was like, 'Who's playing percussion in there?' And it turns out that it's all Dan. He has Mandala electronic pads that his friend Vince De Franco designed for him. He plays the Mandala pads, and they trigger sounds that he has sampled himself. It sounds like he has eight limbs."

4. Tool always experiment in the studio, but they indulged at a new level during the 10,000 Days sessions — incorporating bizarre gear like a "pipe bomb microphone." "It was a guitar pickup mounted to a piece of copper tubing, and it looked like a pipe bomb," Barresi told Mix . "I was using that inside of Maynard's megaphone." Elaborating to Louder Sound , he added, "Maynard and I spoke of recording his voice in weird ways, and that's where the pipe bomb mic came into being. It was a guitar pickup mounted onto a piece of pipe. It didn't work at all for vocals but ended up on a guitar solo and sounded wild."

Other weird recording tricks included Keenan singing into resonating snare drum heads and mic-ing up bassist Justin Chancellor's fingers.

5. When Jones needed some advice on how to achieve the perfect Talk Box effect on "Jambi," he called up a somewhat surprising — yet appropriate — consultant, the Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh "I always wanted to use a Talk Box — I love Joe Walsh — but I never wanted to use it for the sake of using it," Jones told Guitar World in 2006. "We wrote this song and I knew that it was the song where the Talk Box would work really well ... My friend who works for the Eagles' booking agent talked to Joe Walsh and gave him my number. A while later I got a message from Joe on my answering machine: [ imitates Walsh ] 'Adam Jones, this is the Talk Box fairy. Give me a call.' I called him and he was totally cool and gave me a lot of advice. I think that the Talk Box on [ the Eagles' ] 'Those Shoes' is really amazing, especially how the harmonies are in each speaker. I'm really happy with how the Talk Box came out on this record."

6. Tool jokingly referred to 10,000 Days as their "blues album" because of its grittier, sadder subject matter "On our last few albums, there's been more of a metaphysical, attempt-to-open-your-third-eye kind of approach, having faith that people will find a way to expand their consciousness and wake up to the world that they live in," Keenan told Revolver in 2006. "For some reason, we felt like we could help 'em with that. And I think over the last few years, I've either gotten older — or become the grumpy guy who keeps your ball when it bounces in his yard — but I think I've lost a little faith watching the whole political thing."

In the same interview, he compared the resolve of college students protesting the Vietnam War — specifically the Kent State massacre of 1970 — with a more lackadaisical response to injustice in the Internet era. "It seems like nowadays, people sign a petition online or they send an email," he continued. "That's about as much as they can do, and it's a little depressing to me. So I've noticed that this album has a lot more sadness on it. We've been joking about it in a way, but this is kind of, like, our blues album. There's still a lot of hope in it, and there's still a lot of positive, fun, silly stuff. But if there's a theme to it, it'd be, 'Hey, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. I have witnessed this first-hand — and therefore, you're on your own.'"

7. 10,000 Days , like most of Tool's music, feels like a perfect acid trip soundtrack. But Keenan actually designed the explosive, acerbic "The Pot" as a critique on frivolous drug use. "That song Maynard kind of went with the [ irresponsible ] side, or the people who interpret drug influences the wrong way," Jones told BBC Radio in 2006.

"There's the whole idea behind the discipline of meditation or shamanistic rituals that has to do with getting to those spaces where you actually step out of your own body and you have other experiences ... trying to open up your Kundalini [ energy ], this intense years of training, and all of the sudden, people come along with LSD and bypass the whole discipline process," Keenan added. "I think that time most of those people took to do those things, you're kind of preparing yourself in a way so what you actually see you understand on some level. When you're a kid who just drops a tab of acid, if you have no frame of reference for the experience, it's kind of like spiritual theft in a way because you're not really coming back with anything to share. And then people use those transitions as a crutch and they don't ever really come back from them."

8. Despite the impossible-to-count time signatures and polyrhythmic madness, Keenan was most psyched about recapturing some of their straightforward heaviness on tracks like "Jambi" and "The Pot." "I was kind of hoping the album would bring back some of the energy we expressed on our early records," he said around the album's release . "It was very difficult to get a groove going on some of 10,000 Days because everything was so complex and choppy and like running up an uneven set of stairs with a blindfold and a wooden leg. I wanted to do some of that because I really enjoy the challenge of a puzzle, and putting lyrics to those complex pieces. But I was also looking forward to doing something that would be like running down a set of stairs with my eyes closed and know that I'm gonna land on my feet."

9. Tool's studio pastimes included video game showdowns and screenings of a notorious R&B opera "We played a lot of Guitar Hero — I remember that game coming out back then and I turned the guys onto it," Barresi told Louder Sound . "That was a good pastime in the lounge, as well as making anyone who came to the studio sit through R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet DVD. Priceless entertainment."

10. Tool fans are so obsessive, they discovered that closing soundscape "Viginti Tres" and "Wings for Marie," when played back-to-back, equal the track length of "10,000 Days." And if you overdub the latter track on top of the aforementioned hybrid, there's an interesting synchronicity between the riffs and melodies — even though it's clearly just a fun coincidence. Right? This mash-up became so popular among Tool fans that journalists started asking the band members about it during interviews.

"We can barely decide whether we're going to do a baseball cap or a beanie," Keenan told the A.V. Club in 2006. "You know what I mean? Now, granted, if you subscribe to the whole spiritual, energetic level, when you get into that weird, meditative state ... I'm trying to think of the word ... Sufis? I don't remember — the whirling dervishes. When you get into that weird state, at some point, your body clicks out, and you have a weird out-of-body experience, and so you can tap into those things unconsciously. So if people are reading into those kind of things that basically had nothing to do with us, that are just us clicking in a moment and being true to that whirling-dervish process of emoting with each other, some of that stuff just might naturally, accidentally come out. But it's not in any way a product of our design."

Jones, in his Guitar World interview, even recalled a fan messaging him on MySpace to explain her theory about how " Lateralus was written to [ Mel Gibson's 2004 film ] The Passion of the Christ ."

"It's so amazing how it links up. I want to thank you for doing that,'" he recalled her saying. "I wrote her back and said, 'Cool. You figured it out.' Of course, we wrote that album way before The Passion of the Christ came out, but I loved how she tried to link our music to something else."

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TOOL - 10,000 Days Album Art Revealed

March 21, 2006, 18 years ago

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TOOL site Toolband.com has been updated to reveal the artwork for the band's new album, 10,000 Days. Check it out here .

As previously reported, Tool recently announced the following trac listing for 10,000 Days, due out on May 2nd via Volcano: 'Vicarious', 'Jambi', 'Wings For Marie (Pt 1)', '10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)', 'The Pot', 'Lipan Conjuring', 'Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)', 'Rosetta Stoned', 'Intension', 'Right In Two', 'Viginti Tres'.

In other news, Tool will play its first U.S. show since late 2002 when it headlines the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 30th in Indio, CA. No other U.S. dates have been confirmed. Afterward, Tool will spend the first portion of the summer playing the European festival circuit, with dates on tap through July 9th at Finland's Turku Festival.

Here are Tool's tour dates:

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