Hey, remember when Tool took 13 years between 2006's 10,000 Days and last week's Fear Inoculum? That sucked, but man is the new album good. Though according to Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, Fear Inoculum was already "fantastic" in 2011 and the band kept second guessing themselves.
In a new interview with BBC Radio 1's Rock Show With Daniel P Carter, Keenan talks a little bit about the album delay and just accepting that it was time to finally get something done.
"I think a lot of it [was] just that age where you want it to be right and we've had some success in the past and the fear of this thing coming out and not being accepted — the fear that it's not as good as it can be — that can be detrimentally crippling. Probably in if I had to 'psychology 101' [it], I would have to say, 'Well, yeah, that's why it would take 13 years to write something, because you're paranoid that it's not gonna be the best that it can be and then you second guess every single step that you make,' when it was probably good enough — I shouldn't say good enough — it was fantastic eight years ago.
"But then the crippling second guessing of yourself sets in, and that psychology and that spiral you get in, it can be extremely daunting. And you can actually not even feel it happening.
"All of a sudden you wake up and it's 13 years later. The hard part is accepting the fact that maybe you're not as important as you think you are and you should probably just get on with it."
Go see Tool this October and November with Killing Joke. It's gonna be awesome.
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