Fear Inoculum is the fifth studio album by the alternative rock metal 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 13 years, due to creative, personal, and legal issues band members encountered since the release of 10,000 Days. It was released to critical acclaim, with reviewers generally agreeing that the band had successfully refined their established sound. The album topped the US Billboard 200 chart, their third in a row to do so, selling over 270,000 album equivalent units. The album topped five other national album charts in its opening week as well. 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 title track also holds the Guinness World Record for longest song ever to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Tracklist:
- Fear Inoculum
- Pneuma
- Invincible
- Descending
- Culling Voices
- Chocolate Chip Trip
- 7empest
Tool
Maynard James Keenan: vocals
Adam Jones: guitars
Justin Chancellor: bass
Danny Carey: drums, synthesizer
Additional musicians
Lustmord: waves and water sound effects
Production
Evil Joe Barresi: mixing, recording engineer
Bob Ludwig: mastering
Tool: production
Engineering assistance: Jun Murakawa, Morgan Stratton, Kevin Mills, Garret Lubow, Wesley Seidman, Scott Moore, Greg Foeller
Guitar techs: Dan Druff, Tim Dawson, Scott Dachroaden, Pete Lewis, Sacha Dunable
Drum techs: Bruce Jacoby, Jon Nicholson, Joe Slaby, Junior Kittlitz
Additional tracking: Mat Mitchel, Tim Dawson, Andrew Means
Artwork and design
Adam Jones: art direction, video direction
Alex Grey: cover art, booklet art, video concept and video direction
Mackie Osborne: design and layout
Joyce Su: additional art, visual effects, design
Matthew Santoro: CGI, video design, VFX director
Ryan Tottle & Dominic Hailstone: visual effects
Sean Cheetham: Tool portraits
Photography: Kristin Burns, Alex Landeen, Travis Shinn, Lee Young, Ann Chien
