The whole world is waiting for the new TOOL album.
While August 30th is just a few weeks away, good folks at The PRP reports that during a conversation with Guitar World, guitarist Adam Jones talked about multiple important points related to the record.
Here’s the detailed statement from Adam:
“I took a picture pointing to the number seven while we were recording, and a lot of the riffs Justin [Chancellor, bass] and I brought in were in seven. You don’t really go, ‘I’m going to write a riff in seven!’
“You just write a riff and you count it out and it turns out to be in seven. Without being too descriptive about the concept, the main thing is that the seven-beat just kept coming up, and riffs in seven kept coming up. It was really weird!
“When we finished recording, I went to the guys and said, ‘I think we should have called the record Volume 7’ because a lot of the songs are in seven and there are seven tracks on the record.
“Then Maynard [James Keenan, vocals] told me about a whole concept he had about the number seven. We were all, like, ‘Oh My God! This is too weird!’ Then Alex Grey [Tool album artist] basically said the same thing and he has a concept that will reveal itself through video.
“So there are a lot of rhythms and polyrhythms where we explore 7/4 or 7/3, and there’s a riff we count in 21 – which we count as three rounds of seven. I wrote a four-minute lead over something counted in 21, which is crazy!”