-Autographed on front cover by TOOL collaborator Alex Grey, very limited
-Limited Edition Special Package
-Includes and immersive visual experience
-36 page booklet w/ lyrics, photos, and exclusive artwork
-MP3 download card featuring additional music
-Over 85 minutes of music
TOOL S FEAR INOCULUM DELUXE EDITION CD w/ HD Screen, speaker, exclusive video content, booklet, and download code for digital version.
AUTOGRAPHED BY ALEX GREY Alex Grey born November 29, 1953 is an American visionary artist, author, teacher, and Vajrayana practitioner. His body of work spans a variety of forms including performance art, process art, installation art, sculpture, visionary art, and painting. Grey is a member of the Integral Institute. He is also on the board of advisors for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is the Chair of Wisdom University s Sacred Art Department. He and his wife Allyson Grey are the co-founders of The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors CoSM , a non-profit church supporting Visionary Culture in Wappingers Falls, New York.
Fear Inoculum is the fifth studio album by American rock band Tool. It was released on August 30, 2019, through Tool Dissectional, Volcano Entertainment, and RCA Records. It is the band s first album in thirteen years, due to creative, personal, and legal issues band members encountered since the release of 10,000 Days. The album was released to critical acclaim, with reviewers agreeing that the band had successfully refined their established sound.
In 2006, Tool released their fourth studio album, 10,000 Days. It topped the US Billboard 200 album chart and was certified platinum by the RIAA, indicating more than one million units sold, a month later. The band toured heavily in support of the album, playing more than 200 shows through 2007.After this, frontman Maynard James Keenan mentioned that he saw Tool breaking up in the near future, and focused on his side-project, Puscifer. However, by early 2008, at the 50th Grammy Awards, Keenan announced to MTV that the band would begin writing new material for their fifth studio album right away .
The band was quiet over the next few years, only with Tool s website announcing that guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor, and drummer Danny Carey were working on instrumental material while Keenan focused his efforts on Puscifer. The approach was consistent with what the band had done in the past, with Keenan waiting to write vocals and lyrics until instrumentals were completed. In 2012, the band s website was updated again, with the webmaster writing that they had heard instrumental material that had sounded like Tool some of it reminiscent to earlier Tool stuff, with other parts pushing the envelope and that they estimated that the album was around half done.
Outside problems slowed progress on the album over the following years. In 2013, it was reported that two separate scooter accidents injured two undisclosed members of the band, eliminating nine days of planned jamming time. Carey later revealed himself as one of the involved members, noting that he had been involved in a motorcycle accident that resulted in multiple cracked ribs, which caused him pain that further slowed recording. Keenan summed up the album s progress at the time in a cooking analogy, explaining that Basically right now it s a lot of ideas. There s no actual songs It s still kind of noodles in a big basket. Lots of noodles, just no dishes. In 2014, Jones and Carey revealed that complicated legal issues and court battles stemming from a 2007 lawsuit had been slowing down the process as well. The issues stemmed from a lawsuit from a friend who claimed credit for artwork the band had used, but escalated after an insurance company involved sued the band over technicalities, leading to the band then counter-suing the insurance company. The constant court battles and delays, coupled with other life obligations, limited the band s time for working on music, and drained members of their motivation to be creative and write music. At the time, Carey stated that only one song was pretty much done , an untitled ten-minute track. In 2015, Jones announced that the legal issues were completely over.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Maynard James Keenan all music composed by Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Maynard James Keenan, and Justin Chancellor.
Physical versionNo.TitleLength1. Fear Inoculum 10:202. Pneuma 11:533. Invincible 12:444. Descending 13:375. Culling Voices 10:056. Chocolate Chip Trip instrumental 4:487. 7empest 15:43Total length:79:10 Digital versionNo.TitleLength1. Fear Inoculum 10:202. Pneuma 11:533. Litanie contre la peur instrumental French for Litany Against Fear 2:144. Invincible 12:445. Legion Inoculant instrumental 3:096. Descending 13:377. Culling Voices 10:058. Chocolate Chip Trip instrumental 4:489. 7empest 15:4310. Mockingbeat instrumental 2:05Total length:86:38
