Tool might eventually release a new album someday

MusicForFish said:

Guitar and Bass dont have any memorable riffs.

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While this album is definitely the Danny Carey show and it doesn't have any openers that blow your doors off quite like Schism or Forty Six & 2, the opening riffs on Pneuma and 7empest are pretty badass.

I think this biggest thing that makes this album a "disappointment" for me, if you will, is knowing that this is probably the last Tool album we'll ever get and this is what they went out on.

7empest maybe the best song I’ve heard since early 2000’s.

As probably expected, new tour starting in Denver October 10th.

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Any Tool Army members? Anyone able to help me with presale for Phoenix?

pharmakos said:

i think i can still use my Tool Army account from ages ago, but i forgot the password and the password to the email associated with it heh. but i'm currently in the process of regaining access to that Hotmail account, think i should get back in via customer service. i'll let you know if i do.

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Thanks man! Pre sale is this Wednesday, 09/04, no pressure but if you’re going to do it, it would need to be soon I don’t pressure people for favors, so no sweat if you don’t get it.

I have to say, the album is growing on me.

Still like the title track, Pneuma is really interesting to me and of course current consensus favorite which seems to be 7empest.

pharmakos said:

Yeah who knows if customer service will get back to me quick enough, the ball is in their court now. I filled out as much as I could in their automated recovery thing for long lost dead accounts.

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I signed up, so no worries.

Are you going to go to any shows?

Hateyou said:

Man I looked at tickets, they’re playing 20 minutes from me. They START at $200. I’m not that dedicated, and can’t remember half the shows I’ve went to to be spending that for a couple hours. Maybe if I could eat some shrooms or something and make a night of it, but I’m too old for that shit anymore.

Listened to the album a couple more times, it still hasn’t grown on me. The music is great, he just never goes anywhere with the vocals. There’s so many points where it sounds like they were creating a build up for him to do the classic Tool pissed-off vocals out of nowhere and it just never happens. It just makes me go listen to older stuff.

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So you may or may not know this, but tickets aren't even being sold yet. What you're looking at are speculators ie. bots that will buy the tickets at face when they go on sale and then mark them way up. Usually when you see those sites they have some fine print that says you'll be in or around this area, they don't actually have the tickets yet.

The pre-sale is tomorrow and tickets go on public sale Friday. So if you can manage to get them on Ticketmaster at face, they probably won't be as expensive. For other shows I've seen GAs at face for like $65 that end up being sold aftermarket for like $200-300 etc.

I don't actually know what ticket prices will be for this tour, shit has gotten way out of hand, but buying from Stubhub or Vivid or any other number of bullshit ticket sellers isn't the way to go. Check Ticketmaster, try and get in on a presale, test your luck, and if that fails, go to the venue day of and see what you can get for face or from people dumping the shit that didn't sell.

Or stay home and masturbate. Both are fine choices.