Tool announces title of long-awaited album, digital release date for back catalog
After waiting 13 years, fans of the rock group Tool are finally getting their light at the end of the tunnel.
The band announced that its fifth record, titled Fear Inoculum, will be released on Aug. 30.
FEAR INOCULUM, Aug 30th, 2019 Album Art, Lead Track, and Pre-Order info TBA. Thank you for your patience. pic.twitter.com/DxDM5j5D8X
— TOOL effing TOOL (@Tool) July 29, 2019
Not to be outdone, Tool revealed on Instagram that its back catalog will “go up on all digital and streaming formats” on Friday.
“What a weight lifted off my chest,” frontman Maynard James Keenan told “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast recently. “It took a lot of work.”
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