Blair‘s Tool Newsletter for November 2018 is out now. It highlights a recent visit to LA following the Malibu fires, where Blair catches up with Danny Carey and a few other regulars from the Tool family. The good news is that Blair managed to hear at least part of the new album, though keeps it spoiler free: While walking to his car (parked on yet another deficient alley), Danny emerged… Read More »Tool November 2018 Newsletter
It’s December once more, and that time of year usually elicits Best of Lists from websites far and wide. Fourtheye is no different, except we do it collectively, and them publish at the end of the year rather than rush it out early (I’m not willing to rule out the new Graf Orlock album from my list just because it’s not released yet). Rules are simple: Must be an album… Read More »Fourtheye Readers Best Album of 2018 Poll
A couple of quick articles about Billy Howerdel from A Perfect Circle today. The first is from Kerrang! where he gives us a little insight into each track from Eat The Elephant: The Doomed It was in my folder for some of my film soundtrack work. I threw a lot of things at Maynard online and with this one he said, ‘This is a thing but I don’t know what’. We… Read More »Billy explains Eat The Elephant and 10 mind blowing guitar albums
It was revealed a while back that A Perfect Circle would be releasing a cover of AC/DC‘s Dog Eat Dog for Record Store Day. The track is now available on Youtube for your discerning opinions. Personally, I think it’s ok, but unlikely to be a track I return to with any regularity. I’m not really one who enjoys covers a great deal, and this one doesn’t really add much to… Read More »A Perfect Circle Dog Eat Dog
The Welcome to Rockville festival social media team today posted a video on Facebook, promising to reveal the lineup for the 2019 event in 13 days. The video very strongly hints that Tool will be the headline act, featuring some of their artwork as well as a snippet from Mantra. The festival is usually held in late April, which somewhat coincides with Coachella which I’d also expect to be announced… Read More »Tool at Rockville in May 2019
I haven’t done a happy birthday post in a while, mostly because I’m lazy. Well, this time around I’m not, and I’m also keen to post something on the site, since actual news is hard to come by! November 19 is Justin Chancellor‘s birthday! Not sure how he’s celebrating the day, but I’m sure many of us would be happy for he to have a day off from making the… Read More »Happy Birthday Justin!
A Perfect Circle have released a video for their track So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish from their most recent album Eat The Elephant. The track is an interesting one – it’s one of the poppier moments from the album, and certainly on that had me raise my eyebrows on first listen. My initial reaction was definitely “what the hell is this” but the song actually grew on… Read More »A Perfect Circle So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
The latest Tool Newsletter – the October 2018 edition is now online. It’s a reasonably brief update from Blair, mostly highlighting the new tour dates but also has a positive snippet: On Monday, October 8th at 1:35 AM I received an enthusiastic text message from Danny. Without going into specifics, he REALLY liked what he heard in the studio that night. Therefore, I assume that the recording progress is going… Read More »Tool October 2018 Newsletter
Twitterer (if that is the right term) Ivonna Cadavar posted a pic with Adam Jones from Tool not long ago, with an update of sorts on the new album. Have a read and I’ll give you my thoughts below: So while “any day now” sounds pretty promising, I find it hard to get too excited, as it would seem unlikely that Tool have been long out of the studio, and… Read More »Update: Ivonna Cadavar says Tool album DONE “any day now”
Overnight Tool announced a series of live dates for locations right around Europe including the Download Festival in Donington, UK for June and July 2019. Dates are listed below: TOOL EUROPE TOUR 2019SUNDAY, JUNE 2 @ MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA – BERLIN, GERMANYON SALE FRIDAY, OCT. 26 (9 am local)https://www.livenation.de/arti… TUESDAY, JUNE 4 @ O2 ARENA – PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLICON SALE FRIDAY, OCT, 26 (9am local)https://www.livenation.cz/arti… WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 @ WIENER STADHALLE – VIENNA, AUSTRIAON… Read More »Tool announced European tour for 2019