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Tool’s Adam Jones Designs Artwork For Red Hare’s Debut Album ‘Nites Of Midnite’

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on April 04, 2013 @ 8:00am
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Hardcore punk group Red Hare will be releasing their debut album Nites Of Midnite on May 21st on vinyl, CD, and through digital download. The band features Swiz members Jason Farrell (Bluetip, Retisonic), Shawn Brown (Dag Nasty, Jesus Eater), Dave Eight (Swiz, Bluetip), as well as Joe Gorelick (Garden Variety, Retisonic, Bluetip). The cover art for the album was designed by Tool guitarist Adam Jones.

Below you can see the artwork as well as listen to the band’s track “Horace”. READ MORE

Tool Is Pulling A Willy Wonka And Has Hidden Certificates In The ‘Opiate’ Reissues

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 20, 2013 @ 12:15pm
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Talk about a tease. Tool has announced that there will be five certificates placed randomly within the 5,000 21st anniversary reissues of Opiate, which comes out March 26th via ToolBand. What do these certificates grant? No one knows. It’s not being revealed. In fact, you have to be one of the lucky few who finds one to figure out what the prize is. So, if you’re one of the lucky ones to find the proverbial “golden ticket”, be a pal and let me know what you got?

For more information on the reissue, head on over here. READ MORE

Tool To Release 21st Anniversary Collector’s Edition Of ‘Opiate’

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 25, 2013 @ 12:00pm
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Progressive metal band Tool will be releasing a handcrafted, bonus-laden, limited edition package of their original debut EP, Opiate, on Mar. 26 to mark the 21st anniversary of the six-song release.

The anniversary edition is limited to 5,000 copies and features art direction by Adam Jones, illustrations by legendary artist Adi Granov and design packaging by Mackie Osborne, who has collaborated with Tool on many albums including 10,000 Days, Lateralus and Salival as well as posters and merchandise.

The 5,000 copies will be broken down as 5 x 1,000 runs with each set featuring a variation of the exterior graphics and included bonus items which include a new stereoscopic image for fans to use with their glasses from the 10,000 Days packaging.

The packages will only be available via Tool’s website on Mar. 26 and there will be no pre-orders. A limit of three packages from each of the 5 x 1,000 versions will be in place. More details to be announced soon.

Head below for a teaser picture. READ MORE

Tool Guitarist Adam Jones Posts Mysterious Image

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 21, 2013 @ 3:46am
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Adam Jones, guitarist for prog-metal band Tool, has posted a mysterious image to his Instagram account. The caption for the image is simply “#soon”. The picture looks like a snippet of something much larger and includes what looks like an eye and a heavily textured cheek. There are definite style nods to Alex Grey, who did Tool’s artwork for Lateralus and 10,000 Days, leading many to speculate that this may be artwork for the long-awaited new Tool record. However, it must be stressed that nothing is confirmed.

You can see the image below. READ MORE

Now Danny Carey Says That The New Tool Album WILL Come Out This Year

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 07, 2013 @ 5:40pm
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New Zealand’s TheRock recently spoke with Tool drummer Danny Carey about the current state of the band, including the status of a new album. Carey maintains that a new album will be released by the end of 2013, contradicting a recent statement from singer Maynard James Keenan, who claimed that there would be no new Tool record this year. Carey also comments that, “Justin [Chancellor] has been really prolific on this record…” and that 6-7 songs are being recorded by the various members.

A new album will be the followup to 2006′s 10,000 Days. READ MORE

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[Editorial] From Worst To Best: Tool

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on October 17, 2012 @ 9:15pm
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Tool is by no means meant for the casual listener. Their music defies traditional songwriting, dynamically surges from crushing distortion to soft beauty, plays with time signatures, bears some of the most interesting lyrics available, and doesn’t give a damn about song length to ensure radio play. Add to this list the band’s love of the occult and teasing fans with the possibilities that their lyrics and music hide a deeper meaning. Everything combined makes Tool one of the most challenging, well-respected and fascinating bands releasing music these days.

And so I decided that my love of the band should be used to rank their discography. Having listened to each album more times than I can count, I feel very comfortable in my decisions. Note that I am only doing the four full-length albums and I’m not including the Opiate EP nor the Salival release.

This is by no means an easy task. Having been a fan of Tool for more years than I can easily count, I realize that these albums each represent a different period of my life and I have certain memories associated with each one. Still, I’ll do my best to remain objective. So, join me below to find out my “From Worst To Best” with Tool. READ MORE

Adam Jones Tweets Picture From New Tool Project

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on June 04, 2012 @ 11:00am
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Adam Jones, guitarist of prog-rock giants Tool, recently tweeted a picture of a severed arm with TOOLBAND.COM watermarks covering the image. Upon looking at the official Tool website, it was written that this image was a production still for an upcoming “Tool Project” that is tentatively due in the fall. While no other information has been released, there are a couple of things that can be speculated upon:

1) It’s an image from a new music video, either for a track off of 10,000 Days or from the rumored new album that still has yet to enter recording.

2) It is part of the visuals that will accompany the new album, be it in the booklet or part of the marketing campaign.

What do you think readers? What do you make of this image?

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on August 15, 2011 @ 6:39pm
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Well, I could say that stranger things have happened, but for some reason, the sight of Tool‘s Adam Jones playing the Star Spangled Banner at the WWE SummerSlam just boggles my mind completely. I mean, it’s like putting two magnets head to head: no matter what you do, they just won’t stick together! Even more so, they push each other apart! That’s what this seems like to be! However, I guess I’m wrong.

After the jump, you can see a video of Adam rocking out to the WWE masses.

OMFG Of The Day: Tools Adam Jones Performs Star Spangled Banner At WWE SummerSlam

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Posted by SuperRadMike on February 06, 2010 @ 1:33am
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About a month ago Tool guitarist Adam Jones met up with King Crimson guitarist/founder Robert Fripp to discuss possibly rehashing the collaborative album they had started working on a few years back. Fripp recently posted about this on his online journal and had this to say…

“A fabbo lunch with Adam covering a wide range of common interests & experiencing, among which: the possibilities of continuing our album, begun in Los Angeles some 5-6 years ago; and go out speaking together.”

Of course a project like this asks questions concerning what is going on with Tool considering there has been no info regarding a follow up to their last album “10,000 Days” as well as Maynard James Keenan setting out on his first full tour with Puscifer.

When Maynard was asked recently about all this he had this to say,”I can’t sit still, so when those guys hesitate, it takes us so long to do stuff, and it’s like a snake eating its own tail situation, ’cause then I get distracted and I go off and do a thing, and then I get blamed for not being around to do the (Tool) thing,” he said. “But nothing was getting done when I was standing there, so I got bored and left. It’s just an endless cycle.” READ MORE