Maynard James Keenan promises much-awaited fifth Tool album in 2019
Tool's tortured fan army can rest easy at last. The harrowing 12-year wait for the follow up to 2006’s '10,000 Days' is indeed confirmed to come to an end by next year.
For the last year or so, small snippets of news suggesting the much anticipated fifth album to be out in 2018 kept surfacing, mostly through the band and its members' social media accounts. But this time, the final word comes straight from the horse's mouth - frontman Maynard James Keenan himself.
As Tone Deaf reports, Maynard received the Icon Award at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards in London on Monday (11 June) for his "lifetime of contributions to heavy music", and "his work with his trio of bands: A Perfect Circle, Puscifer and Tool". During his brief acceptance speech, he confirmed that Tool would finally release new material in 2019.