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BellJH wrote:Anyone else think the new 'pyramid' backdrop during Descending might have something to do with the new album design direction? It was pretty damn impressive. I couldn't help but think it was a clue or a hint to something as the smoke on the horizon swirled around it....

That pyramid/traingle video is definitely cool. Not sure what, if anything it may have to do with the new album, but it definitely works really well with Descending.

BellJH wrote:Anyone else think the new 'pyramid' backdrop during Descending might have something to do with the new album design direction? It was pretty damn impressive. I couldn't help but think it was a clue or a hint to something as the smoke on the horizon swirled around it....

Yeah I thought that as soon as I saw it in Fairfax, then again from the last picture with Alex Grey where Adam is holding that pyramid trinket thing. I don't think we'll know until 17 years from when 10,000 days was released because the cicadas lay in hibernation for 17 years before reemerging!

They used a pyramid going way back in the Opiate days. I heavily doubt it means anything for anything new.

From the sound of it there will be vinyl.

I definitely would be very surprised if there wasn't a vinyl release of the new album. I'd say that of most bands though.

Danny is pushing for vinyl.

I think I've said this before - what I'd like to see is the artwork be designed to be primarily for vinyl, rather than the smaller medium of CD's. I'd happily drop some decent money on some kind of limited edition vinyl for the next album.

Was just on my way in here to ponder that same thing (and it's been said many times before, obviously). Surely this HAS to be the album where they optimize for vinyl packaging and just release vinyl first thing along with digital and CD, right? They would be utter fools not to, even if you only look at it from a cynical money perspective. Look at what people shill out for NIN or Radiohead special box sets these days. Adam, if he wants to, could blow most of that out of the water packaging wise.

hellboy wrote:I definitely would be very surprised if there wasn't a vinyl release of the new album. I'd say that of most bands though.

I would tend to agree with you, but... 10000 days? Salival? I just don't understand Tool and their vinyl releases.

Salival doesn't really make sense for a vinyl release in my opinion, and 10k Days seemed to have one planned (that never saw the day of light).

10k Days was released at a time when vinyl was yet to come back into vogue. What I expect now that vinyl is very much a leading format once more, that Tool will release the next album with a vinyl version straight off the bat, and I'd prefer that the artwork be designed with vinyl as the primary style. All the artwork since Aenima has been exceptional - I'd love to see what Tool could really do with a 12 inch format for the artwork, rather than a limited size CD.

Offly quiet isnt it.
some thing is brewing

The same thing that's been brewing for the last 11 years

It's percolating.

A nice steaming pot of horse shit?

What if it was just a covers album?

Emotive 2.0, with Danny fartin' on a snare drum.

Here’s the thread you’re looking for, you lazy, lazy fuckers. Who do you think you are? Tool?

I'm curious to see if this comes to light as part of the packaging for the new album.

lachrymologist wrote:Some guy on Twitter is claiming to be with Alex Grey at the festival in NYC. Getting ready to meet with TOOL with a VR proposal?

I first read that as Corey Taylor, ugh

Nothing shocking after Sebastian Bach.

i'm sure it will be some kind of cumbersome package that doesn't fit nicely in my cd shelf. i noticed my lateralus plastic sleeve is ripping at one of the corners... great.

I was looking at the next release from Oresund Space Collective and they are putting out what seems to be an interesting collaboration with Cyber-Rabbit. It would be cool if TooL did something like this.

https://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp ... m/kybalion

This album is a unique collaboration with www.cyberrabbit.co.uk in the UK. It will be a multimedia experience where you will be able to enter into the ØSC world with music and visuals in a totally new and unique way by using the great potential of emerging Mixed Reality technologies in creating a Cyberdelic experience.

The artwork itself will be interactive through the use of augmented, mixed and virtual reality technologies. This album context engineers the traditional way of interacting with the album. Our audience is invited to go onto a Space journey that is waiting you to discover inside the artwork. You will be able to turn your mobile device into a space ship by using it with a virtual reality cardboard!

Download the app here:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberraabbit.oscc

Through altering their perception by the Mixed Reality Cyberdelic experience, the audience becomes an alchemist and open portals into the world of Kybalion through the album art. The album comes with 6 different highly detailed paintings that combines the esoteric symbolism with cosmic imagery, each one contains different portals into the world of Kybalion. From choosing the songs through interactive Emerald Tablets of Thoth that becomes portals... more
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I hope that the new album has a vinyl release.

budsyralli wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:27 pm I hope that the new album has a vinyl release.

I'll be amazed if it doesn't

I love my 10,000 days vinyl