New TOOL Album

[phantasmagoria]

This needs its own thread.

Single's out:
[youtube]q7DfQMPmJRI[/youtube]

[Don Carlos]

I was just about to post this

[Eraser]

Same
Sounds unmistakably Tool. A bit too much perhaps. It's like "didn't they release this song before?"
But I hope that's intentional to tell the fans that "hey, after 13 years, we're still Tool"

[phantasmagoria]

Yeah it's reassuring more than anything else. I'm glad he hasn't gone off the deepend and gone off point, he has Pucifer (who I don't like at all) to do that with. This is definitely a Tool song.

[Transient]

He was on Joe Rogan's podcast last week to promote the album, and announce that he'd finally put Tool's catalogue on streaming services.

[seremtan]

can't see this fitting on one side of a 45rpm vinyl disc

[xer0s]

Sounds good. I just hope the rest of the album has some harder riffs, à la 10,000 days...

[obsidian]

While I largely use Spotify now, any word on how one would go about buying it in some physical form?

[Eraser]

Eh, just like you would buy any other album...?

edit:
official pre-order links: http://smarturl.it/TOOLFIa

[CZghost]

@obsidian:
Do you want CD or vynil? Not every artist sells vynil records today. But most of them should sell at least CD records, if you want it in a physical form. Nothing actually stops you from burning the MP3 files you download from Spotify (yes, Spotify shall present you a way to backup your bought albums to your computer, in case of some shortage) into an Audio CD format. I have ImgBurn for this purpose and its in-built CUE Sheet Editor.

Personally, I like to use Audacity to join it up to one large up to 80 minutes long track and save it directly in Audio CD data format (PCM 16bit LE, 44.1 kHz) with Microsoft WAVE header (*.wav file), and write CUE sheet all by myself in Sublime Text (I have syntax highlighting for CUE Sheet format).

If I want to play the CUE Sheet in Windows Media Player, I have to use WMPCDText extension, that enables the CD Text support for WMP. I find it better than use VLC Media Player that likes to "correct" some mistakes like artist in track name, etc. Some songs in some albums are like with parenthesis (like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones), or using slash ("/") to separate names of combined tracks (two tracks in one), like "Nothing Left to Say / Rocks" by Imagine Dragons. Some songs introduce also colons (":") or dashes ("-") in song names. All of these inputs confuses VLC Media Player into thinking it's incorrectly labeled and it tries to repair it. No need to say that it's wrong and I don't know how to remove that. So I use now obsolete WMP, because Groove Music does not support Audio CDs at all, only downloaded or streamed music (well, downloaded nowadays, since Groove Music streaming platform has been cancelled).

[Eraser]

Fucking hell :olo:

[Don Carlos]

While I largely use Spotify now, any word on how one would go about buying it in some physical form?

I am not sure if this is a joke or really fucking terrifying :paranoid:

[Eraser]

lol yea, next thing Obsidian is going to post about his latest discovery: a thing, made of paper, that contains text and it doesn't require any batteries!

[xer0s]

I agree, it’s crazy to think about buying an actual physical copy, but if I was to buy any album, it would be a Tool album. I actually bought 10,000 Days when it was released. The case was really cool. It was hard paper/cardboard and had these glasses you could look through and view the trippy cover art. Nothing like I’d seen before...

[scared?]

Tool albums ranked:
Undertow
Aenima
Lateralis
10,000 gays

[Eraser]

I agree, it’s crazy to think about buying an actual physical copy

That's not the point. Actually, it's not my point.
I am kind of amazed that someone would unironically ask how to buy a physical copy of an album (for a moment assuming this is what obsidian did).
It's like, have we moved this far beyond CD's and DVD's already that people have to ask this?

[scared?]

What kind of moron buys physical copies of music?...

[Transient]

That's not the point. Actually, it's not my point.
I am kind of amazed that someone would unironically ask how to buy a physical copy of an album (for a moment assuming this is what obsidian did).
It's like, have we moved this far beyond CD's and DVD's already that people have to ask this?

Young adults today were born into a totally digital world. Flip phones are a relic to them, let alone CDs.

[Scourge]

I don't see what the big deal is with Tool. They're good, but nothing spectacular. They sound like a mixture of other bands.

[Scourge]

What kind of moron buys physical copies of music?...

The kind that doesn't want to lose their whole collection when a drive dies or cloud server bites it. You do realize that cloud servers are just that, a server that has multiple access methods. Subject to the same failures.

[Eraser]

Uh, yeah, but redundancy. Look it up in the dictionary.

[Eraser]

I don't see what the big deal is with Tool. They're good, but nothing spectacular. They sound like a mixture of other bands.

No taste is a taste as well

[Scourge]

I don't see what the big deal is with Tool. They're good, but nothing spectacular. They sound like a mixture of other bands.

No taste is a taste as well

Apparently.

[Scourge]

Uh, yeah, but redundancy. Look it up in the dictionary.

I understand that, but shit still happens.

[xer0s]

Simmer down...