Tool have dug out a host of live deep cuts as they kicked off their New Zealand tour.
The metal band performed two nights over the weekend at Auckland’s Spark Arena which saw them perform ‘H.’ from 1996’s ‘Ænima’, ‘Disposition’ from 2001’s ‘Lateralus’ and ‘Crawl Away’ from 1993’s ‘Undertow’ during the first show.
“Some of these songs we haven’t played since you were sperm,” frontman Maynard James Keenan joked.
For the second concert, they broke out another ‘Undertow’ highlight ‘Prison Sex’ for the first time since 2002, as well as ‘Intension’ from their 2006 album ‘10,000 Days’ for the first time since 2014 and the live debut of ‘Fear Inoculum‘ track ‘Mockingbeat’. You can view footage below.
Tool also reprised their cover of Black Sabbath‘s ‘Hand Of Doom’, which they performed at Ozzy Osbourne‘s ‘Back To The Beginning’ show over the summer.
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During that performance, Tool’s drummer Danny Carey also participated in a drum circle with Mastodon’s Brann Dailor, Slipknot’s Eloy Casagrande and Gojiras’s Mario Duplantier during Mastodon’s cover of ‘Supernaut’. Carey and bandmate Adam Jones also played in a Billy Corgan-fronted supergroup alongside Tom Morello, K.K. Downing, and Rudy Sarzo.
Meanwhile, Keenan and Jones recently shared an update on any potential new material from Tool.
When asked what they have in store for next year, Keenan said: “Writing, I guess. You guys are busy, Adam?”
Jones added: “We want to get another record out and play, do what we do. The three of us have been jamming. I don’t know if you go, oh, the writing process has started. It’s always there. Between preparing for an upcoming tour or whatever we’re doing, there’s points where someone goes, oh, I got this and I got this. But I think we’re going to dive deep soon.”
Last year, Tool’s Justin Chancellor spoke to NME about fans’ fanaticism with the band and whether new material could arrive as a series of singles.
When asked about whether he feels the band are under pressure to create new material, and if they do their creative process on their own terms, he said: “It definitely comes on our own terms. The only pressure comes when we announce that we’re working on something new, because then we have to make our own predictions for when it’ll come out, and obviously you feel like you let people down if you don’t release it in a certain amount of time.
“It’s a nice feeling that people still want new stuff, but also they’ve got to understand that it’s not the easiest thing to do. It’s not a simple thing and it’s not always a natural thing that comes at the time you want it to come. Art is a very strange animal and it has its own schedule.
“When it comes to writing new music, we’re aware that people don’t manage to stay together for as long as we have, so the pure fact that we’ve made it this far makes us eager to take it to the next place and create something new. Whether we’ll be able to successfully, who knows? We’re pretty sure we can, but Tool’s approach has always been experimental, so we never quite know how it’ll come together.”
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