While preparing to hit the road with Tool, and in the lead up to the latest MTVoid release, Justin Chancellor has spoken with the crew at The Vinyl Guide. It’s a great interview, and he speaks about a bunch of interesting topics. A few of my takes from the interview Check it out: You may recall that the Vinyl Guide has also spoken with Mackie Osbourne, who has also commented… Read More »Justin Chancellor with The Vinyl Guide
Justin Chancellor has been pretty busy of late, including prepping for Tool tours and recording MTVoid latest album. Not content with that, he’s also appeared on the latest Night Verses record – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley of Night Part 1. I posted about this a little while ago, but this week I had the chance to have a listen, and I gotta say it’s one of… Read More »Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night Part 1
Back in 2013 Justin Chancellor from Tool together with Peter Mohamed released MTVoid’s debut Nothing’s Matter. The duo are back in 10 years later with their next release – Matters Knot, Pt. 1. The album also includes contributions from friends of Chancellor and Mohamed: Aric Improta (Night Verses, ex-Fever 333) on “Propagator,†Isabel Munoz-Newsome of Pumarosa on “Drop-Out,†and Andy Morin (Death Grips), who contributed drums and production to “Scanner… Read More »MTVoid announce Matters Knot, Pt. 1
Announced today is a celebration for Maynard‘s 60th birthday – a selection of dates with Primus, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle. The three bands will perform all together, I assume in a manner similar to the Cinquanta shows 10 years ago. Here’s a trailer of sorts: For those of you who can remember 10 years back, you’ll recall Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor from Tool joined to experience, filling in… Read More »SESSANTA: Primus, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle
Night Verses are a prog-rock band from California, and have announced a new album recently. Called Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night, this album features a range of guests, including Tool bassplayer Justin Chancellor. He plays on the closing track on Part 1 called Séance. Also featured on the record is Tristan Shone, who you may recall is the mastermind behind Author & Punisher. You can… Read More »Night Verses announce new album featuring Justin Chancellor
There’s an interesting new interview (though relatively short) with Adam Jones from Tool today on the site Pollstar. The article covers a few perspectives on how Tool tour, and plan their tours. There’s also a few insights from other people including John Branigan – who I think is Tool’s booking agent. Don’t go in expecting any Tool news, (there isn’t any) but it’s an interesting read none the less. Tool… Read More »Adam chats with Pollstar on touring planning
The Melvins have another album in the works, this time an all electric effort that pays tribute to the great Throbbing Gristle. Here’s the details: What’s the obvious and predictable move for an insanely influential band like the Melvin’s to do on their 40th anniversary? An homage LP to another insanely influential band Throbbing Gristle of course! THROBBING JAZZ GRISTLE FUNK HITS! A hybrid of covers and inspired jams, joined… Read More »Melvins – Throbbing Jazz Gristle Funk Hits
In the often decade long lulls between Tool albums the news cycle tends to slow down somewhat. I mostly highlight Tool (and related act) tours and occasionally a bit of related news. It seems to me though I should probably post some more, so if you’ll allow me to indulge, and may from time to time review a record I reckon the Fourtheye Crew would be interested in. First up… Read More »Album Review: PetroDragonic Apocalypse
Just a quick heads up – there’s a bit of site maintenance ongoing at the moment, and one result of this is that the forum is offline. This is just temporary, and hopefully it’ll be back soon. If you’re missing human contact feel free to hang out on the Fourtheye Discord. Update: it’s fixed. Happy foruming!
Dates for the Tool 2023 US & Canada tour have leaked online just prior to the scheduled ToolArmy announcement, and it’s good to see a good spread of dates across the continent: Tickets will be available from the usual venues I expect. ToolArmy pre-sales will apparently get you 4 tickets in total. Some details from TA: Hi Tool Army- As valuable Legacy/Lifetime or Annual Subscribers of the Tool Army, we… Read More »Tool 2023 US & Canada Tour Dates