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Topic: TOOL Album Art Released
Posted: March 22 2006 at 00:01

This is the new Album art released on Tools Website.

Oh yeah...This was there too!..........................Woops I put this is Tours/shows

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 00:05

I always really like Tool's album when I judge them by their cover

RIP in bossa nova heaven.

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 06:31

Cool artwork, lets hope the music matches.

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 08:39

!!!!!! I love the artwork...i was kinda worried that alex grey wouldn't be doing the artwork, but now i can't imagine anyone else doing artwork for them from now onward!

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 08:43

\m/ like the signature?

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 16:49

46and2 wrote:

!!!!!! I love the artwork...i was kinda worried that alex grey wouldn't be doing the artwork, but now i can't imagine anyone else doing artwork for them from now onward!

Me neither, and it only takes a quick look to tell it's Alex's work too.Very Unique...This is my Fave...

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 20:13

will it have a neat cover like lateralus?

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 23:37

46&2 I like that photo!

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Posted: March 22 2006 at 23:43

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Posted: March 23 2006 at 22:05

I don't get it.

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Posted: March 23 2006 at 22:59

The Ryan wrote:

I don't get it.

Dont get What?

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Posted: March 23 2006 at 23:06

Oxygen Waster wrote:

This is the new Album art released on Tools Website.

Oh yeah...This was there too!..........................Woops I put this is Tours/shows

Look's cool! Man, I have to check that one out!

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Posted: March 24 2006 at 00:40

Very nice cover,imo.I always liked Alex Grey's work.

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Posted: March 24 2006 at 09:19

on tool's site, it states that this is only a fraction of the cover, pert of a larger more complex picture.

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Posted: March 24 2006 at 09:46

46and2 wrote:

on tool's site, it states that this is only a fraction of the cover, pert of a larger more complex picture.

Yeah.....I can't wait to get my hands on this baby.

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Posted: March 24 2006 at 18:31

I reallly like his style of artwork. Very intresting.

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Posted: March 25 2006 at 05:33

46and2 wrote:

on tool's site, it states that this is only a fraction of the cover, pert of a larger more complex picture.

Actually, it doesn't say that at all... It says "Album Mini" meaning that the picture is scaled down from the actual size, not cropped (Blair cleared it up). This picture is actually a small photo taken from a much larger painting by Alex Grey.

If you look at the top of the album art from Toolband, some of the little galaxies weren't even painted in at the time that picture was taken... the painting was not complete (it is now).

IMO, it would be extremely tacky of Tool to use a photoshop-saturated picture of an unfinished Alex Grey painting as an album cover. How can that be possible after the amazing Lateralus artwork?

Also, theres a good chance that all the info we have been given is fake- before the release of Lateralus, Tool released a fake track list and album name "Systema Encaphale".

And I find it rather hard to take track titles like "The Pot" and "Rosetta Stoned" seriously. The album title "10,000 Days" sounds too similar to Disturbed's "10,000 Fists"...

Look at the new logo, it can easily be read as "Fool", as in April Fools. (Tool is known for elaborate AF jokes, such as the one where Maynard was quitting the band to dedicate his life to Jesus, every media outlet right up to MTV reported it)

Also, one of the possibly fake tracklists leaked before had "23" as a track name, and now the official track listing has "Vigniti Tres" (latin for 23) as a track. Now what are the chances someone accidentally came up with that?

I have a feeling they are either going to release the real name/listings/album art on April 1st, or hold this out until the album is leaked/released. Then again maybe I'm just dead wrong and Tool have completely lost their tastes.

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Posted: March 28 2006 at 16:16

int_2375 wrote:

Also, theres a good chance that all the info we have been given is fake- before the release of Lateralus, Tool released a fake track list and album name "Systema Encaphale".

And I find it rather hard to take track titles like "The Pot" and "Rosetta Stoned" seriously. The album title "10,000 Days" sounds too similar to Disturbed's "10,000 Fists"...

Tool (Fool?, heh I like that) have a track record of jerking the collective chain of its fan base, over and over again. Awesome. Everyone wants to be the first with the inside skinny, and the band knows how rabidly people will latch onto tossed tidbits of info. I for one will not believe anything about the new album until the case is in my hands, and the disc is in my player.

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Posted: March 28 2006 at 16:26

int_2375 wrote:

46and2 wrote:

on tool's site, it states that this is only a fraction of the cover, pert of a larger more complex picture.

If you look at the top of the album art from Toolband, some of the little galaxies weren't even painted in at the time that picture was taken... the painting was not complete (it is now).

IMO, it would be extremely tacky of Tool to use a photoshop-saturated picture of an unfinished Alex Grey painting as an album cover. How can that be possible after the amazing Lateralus artwork?

Also, theres a good chance that all the info we have been given is fake- before the release of Lateralus, Tool released a fake track list and album name "Systema Encaphale".

And I find it rather hard to take track titles like "The Pot" and "Rosetta Stoned" seriously. The album title "10,000 Days" sounds too similar to Disturbed's "10,000 Fists"...

I have stated in every Tool new album thread that while all of this stuff(album name,art,track lists)is interesting I will believe nothing until I have the cd in my hands.

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Posted: March 29 2006 at 00:13

Oxygen Waster wrote:

The Ryan wrote:

I don't get it.

Dont get What?

What the hell kind of cover is that, and why does everyone else like it? I'm so confused right now, am I missing something?