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I’m starting a new series of posts that will list the upcoming album releases.  Here’s the first list:

August 16
*Killswitch Engage – Atonement
*Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold

August 23
*Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee
*Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’
*Taylor Swift – Lover
*Vince Gill – Okie

August 30
*!!!(Chik Chik Chik) – Wallop
*Bon Iver – I,I
*Common – Let Love
*Lana Del Ray – Norman Fucking Rockwell
*Sheryl Crow – Threads (duets album)
*The Alchemist – Powers
*Tool – Fear Inoculum
*Trisha Yearwood – Every Girl

Finally!  Tool has put all of their albums online available for streaming.  I used to go to YouTube to listen to the albums (If I didn’t have it available from my own collection) so I’m very happy about this.  Maynard James Keenan says:

“Our obsession with, and dream of, a world where BetaMax and Laser Disc rule has ended. Time for us to move on. But never fear. There’s a brand new thing we think you’re really gonna dig. It’s called Digital Downloads and Streaming. Get ready for the future, folks!”

A few hours after the albums were released on iTunes, all of their albums were on the iTunes Top 10!

Tool have announced, via Instagram, that their fifth studio album will be released on August 30th.  The album is titled ‘Fear Inoculum’.  Even better news is they announced they’ll finally have their back catalog available via streaming services.

Check out their new logo which Tool posted on Instagram

#tool2019 pic.twitter.com/5zP1DxdlWB

— TOOL effing TOOL (@Tool) July 22, 2019

#Tool

Tool is going to have a little fun with their limited edition anniversary reissue of the “Opiate” EP.  The EP will be released in a limited run of 5,000 copies with 5 different 1,000 piece runs with different graphics and bonus matrial only sold on their website on March 26th.  They are putting five “Seal of Xatanitos” certificates in random copies of the EP and you won’t know the prize unless you win.

Better get to their website and get that EP!

Looks like Tool have begun recording their new album over the Thanksgiving weekend. Evil Joe Barresi is producing the album which was being done at the bands home studio. No word on the title or when it will be out.

Tool is ready to go on the road for a summer tour beginning on June 19th. Their last studio album was ‘10,000 days’ back in 2006 so it’s not like they have any new music but it will be nice to see them again. They are such a great band live. If you remember Maynard James Keenan started his winery ‘Stronghold Vineyards’ a few years back so he’s been busy with that. There are hints that a new album is underway. Here are the tour dates.

June 2010
19 – New Orleans, LA – University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena
20 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
22 – Cedar Park, TX – Cedar Park Center
23 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Arena
25 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
26 – St. Charles, MO – Family Arena

July 2010
1 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Center
4 – Winnipeg, Manitoba – MTS Centre
5 – Regina, Saskatchewan – Brandt Centre
7 – Edmonton, Alberta – Rexall Place
9 – Vancouver, British Columbia – GM Place
12 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Tool has announced that they will be heading out on a summer tour. No dates have been confirmed but they will announce them on their site. If you can’t wait, they are possibly headlining this years Lollapalooza festival but that hasn’t been fully confirmed.