Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicRemember those uncharacteristically optimistic tweets Maynard James Keenan posted about the progress of the new Tool album? Yeah, those are gone.
As Tool fans on Reddit have pointed out, both tweets Keenan wrote earlier this month regarding his work on the long-awaited album have been deleted.
In the first tweet, Keenan wrote that he “Started getting music files from the boys [with] the word FINAL in the title a few months ago after 11 years of begging.” The rest of Tool — guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor — have been working on the instrumentals for the album.
Keenan then added that he finished the lyrics and melodies on every track he received except for one. “Someday we’ll track them,” he wrote. “Long way from the finish line, but at least we’re closer.”
Keenan and Tool have been notoriously cryptic over the years about the new album, their first since 2006’s 10,000 Days, which made his forthright tweets all the more intriguing. Prior to the tweets, Keenan’s most recent public comments about the progress of the album were “Yeah, I’ve got nothing.”
As for whether the deletion of the tweets is any concrete reflection on the status of the new Tool album, that remains unclear. Tool fans tend to be a fervent bunch, though, so you might want to prepare for some conspiracy theories.
One thing that is for certain: you’ll hear Keenan on the new A Perfect Circle album Eat the Elephant, due out April 20.
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