Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.” The frontman couldn’t be accused of hypocrisy on that front: Since the release of 10,000 Days, he released three albums with Puscifer, while that side project's total output by the time Tool’s fifth album arrived included five remix albums, two live records and three EPs. In the meantime, as always, other things are simultaneously occurring. Nothing is recorded yet, but the guys are confident that the pieces are coming together swimmingly and will be ready for me to begin writing melodies and content ‘soon.’” He added that "patience is gold in this sound mine. Keenan emphasized he was “as anxious to get this album done as everyone else,” explaining, “I’ve been making regular trips to to check on the writing progress of my Tool brethren.
We bought an insurance policy for peace of mind, but instead we would have been better off if we never had it and just dealt with the original lawsuit.” On a brighter note, the pair hinted at “raw musical ideas” that were underway in the studio, with Carey describing the work as “a little more ‘metal’ sounding” with “really heavy elements.” But every time we’ve gotten close to going to trial, it gets postponed and we’ve wasted money and time and it has just drained our creative energy.
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… We’re going to trial and we want to crush them. But the point is, we’re fighting the good fight. What the fuck?’ And you don’t want to pull people into your problems, because they don’t understand. And the fans are all going, ‘We want a new Tool album. To throw this into the mix, it makes everything that much worse and stresses people out.” Jones added that "it’s costing millions and millions and millions of dollars to defend us. And there’s lots of other things that pop up. As we’ve gotten older and our priorities have changed, it’s hard to get the band on a good, solid schedule as it is. “The bad thing is it’s really time-consuming. “The whole thing is really depressing,” Carey said. After seven years, a series of suits and countersuits was keeping them from their creative work. When they turned the case over to the insurance company paid to defend them, that company sued the band too.
“And while part of me is selfish and goes, ‘I’m not necessarily doing it for them,’ it’s time that they understand what’s going on.” He explained that, in 2007, a lawsuit arose over the rights to some artwork used by the band. Jones and Carey finally came clean about the setbacks preventing them from completing work on a new record. So maybe sometimes bad things happen for a reason." But we’re past them now, everybody’s recovered, and that process has kind of actually added to us focusing on being creative. We’re not gonna put out something that sucks just to put it out.” He hinted that they "had two really bad things happen, things that I’m not gonna get into, that set us back emotionally and mentally. It’s something I’m very proud of." The band members were working on music around their day jobs in 1992, but Jones admitted they lived “kind of cushy lives now." "It makes everything go slow, which is unfortunate – we all would have liked to have been done with a new record a long time ago – but when it’s done, it’s gonna be good," he said. … Maybe I’d redo a lead or use a different effect here and there, but overall I like it. Playing some of those songs live 21 years later, you’ve obviously evolved. Creatively speaking, there’s always room for improvement. “It takes you back to that time and what you were thinking. “It’s kinda like a time machine,” he said. The launch inspired him to consider the differences between that work and the one the band was still working on. Tool re-released their debut EP Opiate with new artwork by Jones to mark its 21st anniversary.
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