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Tool's Justin Chancellor on touring Australia, covering Black Sabbath, new music after Fear Inoculum

The Australian

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Ahead of its 2025 Australian tour headlining Good Things festival, as well as several sideshows, bassist Justin Chancellor spoke with The Australian's national music writer Andrew McMillen about learning Black Sabbath's 'Hand of Doom' at Ozzy Osbourne's final show in Birmingham, the odd sensation of playing in daylight, writing new music and whether 7empest might ever see the light of day again in the band's live shows.

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20 Comments

@divinelyshpongled 10 months ago

Greatest band of our generation... i can't imagine life without tool

@adefset4811 10 months ago

Gee Justin seems even more down to earth and appreciative of the fans more than ever what a absolute legend

@Aaron_Gentry 10 months ago

Justin Chancellor is cool as hell. Top tier musician and seems like a genuinely cool person

@theborgster8497 10 months ago

Ultimate challenge: Get Adam Jones in an interview.........

@snazzytipene2572 10 months ago

God dam. What a good bloke. Teared me up a bit. Took my 13 year old son to Your Auckland show. We do a lot of adventures. I asked him for his thoughts on the show? He said it was the greatest experience of his life so far. Thank you X

@user-i7d7c 10 months ago (edited)

Since when does the @the Australian do awesome honest and genuine interviews with TOOL?!?!? Great questions and thanks for uploading without paywall

@cmyt5736 10 months ago (edited)

I love Tool more now than I ever did in the 90s, liked them but didn't feel it the way I do now in my 50s. I have been stuck on Reflection for a few days this week. I want a 30 min track of just the music. I have never had the pleasure of seeing them live, life regret. Imagine me, a grandmother, exposing my grands to Tool. My grandmother would never, lol.

@koopstanick1710 10 months ago

“People almost want us to carry on doing it”. Understatement of the year!!!

@WhaddupImTopher 10 months ago

I don't need a release date, I'm just happy they are "working on it".

@hereticsic4 10 months ago

Justin is the ❤ of TOOL! Nobody is having more fun on stage playing their parts than this guy!

@andrewbecker3700 10 months ago

Seeing Tool live is something completely different than listening to recordings. All the tempo changes and complex arrangements are way more intense in concert. The space they intentionally allow during most of their best songs. Only adds to the experience. To say they play loudly is an understatement.
Peace

@jdpower6360 10 months ago

This man oozes bass tone, groove, and melody

@RyanMarks-d5k 10 months ago

7empest made the setlist last night. I wonder if this interview instigated it.

@KurtCollier 10 months ago

Tool is both fortunate and have legitimately earned through great work a fan base who will continue to seek reasons to fawn and throw money at these guys. Part of the reason that works so well, is that these guys don't let "sub-par" stuff out. They also fought for a lot of years over who gets paid what when they do work- but now that they have the real bargaining power I am glad they take their time and just do great songs. If they never do another new thing again they will have a perfect record. If they put out another album, based on their previous efforts, it will be fantastic and legendary.

@philaldridge4178 10 months ago

My favorite bass player in my favorite band.

@char_lou 10 months ago

If any festival goers aren't going in to see Tool, I'm sure many of them will leave as new fans of this great band 😎

@DanielA-sk8oh 10 months ago

Asking about being asked about new music is a savvy way about asking about new music 😂

@fighterNZ1 10 months ago

I just did the VIP thing in Auckland. The sound check was the highlight of the show. Don't get me wrong, the concert was 100% but there was some special about the sound check, I don't think the concert would have been the same without it, for me anyway, and yes, Justin is an awesome guy, he takes time to actually talk to his fans.

@Jaxjags2826 10 months ago

My wife and I flew from Jacksonville FL to Vancouver to see TOOL in the first couple rows. I’ll never forget Justin pointing to my wife and I after the encore and throwing us a guitar pic. Made the experience so surreal.