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Tool’s Keenan: “No new disc, not this year.”

It appears Tool fans will have to wait a little longer for any new material, with frontman Maynard James Keenan observing in a recent interview there will not be a new Tool album released in 2013.

It appears Tool fans will have to wait a little longer for any new material, with frontman Maynard James Keenan observing in a recent interview there will not be a new Tool album released in 2013.


Despite reports late last year suggesting progress on material, Keenan asserted the full-length is still a while away.


The singer said the following to Chilean publication Futuro (as translated by theprp.com):


“No new disc, not this year. I have not written any songs. So no, there is nothing,” Keenan said.