When you get successful, you think you’re right about everything and you’re pretty sure as that individual - ‘I am right and you are wrong, because I’m successful and we’re successful because of me, not because of you.’ It’s not that bad with us, but there’s a dynamic of like, ‘I want this and I’ve always gotten my way and that’s why we’re successful, because I don’t compromise on this or that.’ I’m the same way. Everything’s a fucking committee meeting and it always gets shut down. The four of us are a lot of fucking work, just to get anywhere, oh my god. In 2015, Jones announced that the legal issues were completely over. At the time, Carey stated that only one song was “pretty much done”, an untitled ten-minute track. 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. 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. 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. There's no actual songs…It's still kind of noodles in a big basket. 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. 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. In 2013, it was reported that two separate scooter accidents injured two undisclosed members of the band, eliminating nine days of planned “jamming” time. Outside problems slowed progress on the album over the following years. 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. 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. 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. 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". After this, frontman Maynard James Keenan mentioned that he saw Tool breaking up in the near future, and focused on his side project, Puscifer. The band toured heavily in support of the album, playing more than 200 shows through 2007. 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. In 2006, Tool released their fourth studio album, 10,000 Days. Two songs off the album received Grammy nominations, the first single " Fear Inoculum", for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, and " 7empest", for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, with the latter winning the award. The album topped five other national album charts in its opening week as well. The album topped the US Billboard 200 chart, their third in a row to do so, selling over 270,000 album-equivalent units. It was released to critical acclaim, with reviewers generally agreeing that the band had successfully refined their established sound. It is the band's first album in 13 years, due to creative, personal, and legal issues band members encountered since the release of 10,000 Days. It was released on August 30, 2019, through Tool Dissectional, Volcano Entertainment, and RCA Records. Fear Inoculum is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Tool.
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