bassist Justin Chancellor has offered an update on the prog metal stars’ next album, saying the band has “a couple of solid [...
] skeletons of songs”. The musician, who joined Tool in 1995 to replace original bassist Paul D’Amour, has also explained the four-piece’s current songwriting process. Talking to , Chancellor says of the state of new music: “There’s absolutely tons and tons of hard drives full of stuff.
“Some ideas go back to before [2019 album] that are just simple riffs that we never incorporated into a song. But sometimes that’s a bit like grinding the gears when you’re trying to resurrect or revisit them, so it’s really appealing to work on the newest stuff. “Each time we come together, people also have so many new ideas and then we’ll spend all day playing them.
“We’re constantly introducing new stuff but then sometimes that’ll marry with the old material. “We’ve been writing for the last couple of weeks, meeting a couple of times each week – we’ve had some really good sessions, and a lot of it has been brand new. We already have a couple of solid, what I would say are, skeletons of songs waiting to be finalized.
” Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! The bassist elaborates on how Tool currently compose music: “It’s a real mixed bag. “We’ve been doing this round robin thing of saying, ‘Danny [Carey, drums], give us a drum rhythm that you’ve bee.
