Tool - “Fear Inoculum” (Review)
Tool “Fear Inoculum” (Volcano/RCA) Release Date - Friday 30th August 2019 No dear reader, your eyes AREN’T deceiving you! This is a NEW Tool album!! Not quite hitting the “10,000 Days” target set by their last studio album of the same name, it’s been 4869 days since a new Tool album was released. That’s thirteen years and 2 months. Tool actually make Rammstein look prolific. So what does a thirteen year wait get us? The numbers are worrying at first glance – seven new tracks (ten if you get the digital download, although the extra three are instrumental interludes), and a running time of just shy of eighty minutes which is the maximum time a single CD can hold. So far so “WHAT?” Take a deep breath and relax, this is Tool we’re talking about here. A quick word of advice before i go any further – if “Fear Inoculum” is your first foray into Tool land, DO NOT PRESS PLAY! I am deadly serious here. Go back and work your way through their catalogue, that ...