Maynard James Keenan Explains Why The New Tool Album Has Taken So Long

It’s the question we’ve all been asking since the release of Tool’s 2006 fourth studio album 10,000 Days: why the massive wait for its follow-up? Now, in a new interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, frontman Maynard James Keenan has explained – among many other topics across the near-two-hour chat – why the band’s new record, Fear Inoculum, has taken so long, while also addressing why it’s taken forever for their music to be able to purchase digitally and hit streaming services (which it finally will, as of this coming Friday). “The four of us are a lot of fucking work, just to get anywhere, oh my God. Everything’s a fucking committee meeting and it always gets shut down,” he says. “[The hurdle is] success. When you get successful, you think ...

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