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The musician, who joined Tool in 1995 to replace original bassist Paul D’Amour, has also explained the four-piece’s current songwriting process.

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He continued: “As soon as we get past the arguments, we can get shit done! [Laughs] I think we could do it more efficiently. And I think everyone’s on the same page that we have to get through that, because we can’t drag this out another 14 years.”

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“We’ve been writing for the last couple of weeks, meeting a couple of times each week – we’ve had some really good sessions, and a lot of it has been brand new. We already have a couple of solid, what I would say are, skeletons of songs waiting to be finalized.”

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Tool bassist Justin Chancellor has offered an update on the prog metal stars’ next album, saying the band has “a couple of solid […] skeletons of songs”.

“That, to me, was so frustrating. And I think Adam was really in this moment where he was trying to find his voice as a guitar player.

“He was just so unsure about everything, and playing the same parts over and over and over. And I was just like, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t!’ I really couldn't deal with it, you know?”

“Then Adam [Jones, guitar] will present one of his, and I’ll present one of mine. As soon as one idea gets exhausted, we’ll move onto the next.

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“We’re doing what we can to try and give a fresh approach to the writing experience, and part of that is trying not to overdo it so we’re not banging our heads against the wall. It’s knowing when to take a breath.

“Some ideas go back to before [2019 album] Fear Inoculum that are just simple riffs that we never incorporated into a song. But sometimes that’s a bit like grinding the gears when you’re trying to resurrect or revisit them, so it’s really appealing to work on the newest stuff.

Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan recently told Metal Hammer that the band don’t want to take another 13 years to release an album, like they did with Fear Inoculum.

Ex-bassist Paul D’Amour recently told Guitar World that Tool’s meticulous, perfectionist writing process was why he left the band in 1995.

“We’ve been doing this round robin thing of saying, ‘Danny [Carey, drums], give us a drum rhythm that you’ve been working on,’ and then we’ll work on that.

“We’re all really excited about it but we’re just letting it come as it does. We’ll probably work a little bit in soundchecks and in the dressing room. It’s great.”

D’Amour added that the band still write the way they did in the mid-’90s and that he “probably would have left that band 10 times by now” as a result.

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