'You just write a riff and you count it out and it turns out to be in seven. 'I took a picture pointing to the number seven while we were recording, and a lot of the riffs Justin and I brought in were in seven,' Jones explains in the story. 'You don't really go, 'I'm going to write a riff in seven!' Links will be posted tomorrow, Tuesday, August 6th on our Band URL and Social Accts. Title Track and Album Pre-Order Wednesday August 7th. The articles reveals the album's run time - 80 minutes - which makes it the band's longest offering to date ( Lateralus and 2006's 10,000 Days clock in at 78:51 and 75:45, respectively), and Jones discusses how the number seven played a large role in the LP's creation.įEAR INOCULUM. Tool guitarist and visual mastermind Adam Jones delves deep into Fear Inoculum in Guitar World's new cover story. Today, August 5th, the prog-metal titans unveiled the LP's cover art, which appears to feature a spiraling shape composed of disembodied eyes, building on the 'cosmic eye' imagery of visionary artist and frequent Tool collaborator Alex Grey, which has become closely associated with the band since 2001's Lateralus album.

On Friday, the band's catalog finally hit digital music platforms after years of the group holding out, and earlier last week, Maynard James Keenan appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast to reveal the album's title, Fear Inoculum, and discuss its making and more. Tool's first new album in 13 years is set to drop in less than a month - on August 30th, to be exact - and needless to say, things are heating up.

Tool album cover art