Carey was speaking to Loudwire about his new band Volto! and the conversation naturally turned towards Tool and their new album and when fans can expect it.

He revealed that Tool is currently working on the album without Maynard James Keenan. "It's still the three of us right now and four of us it will be soon, you know, just working on all our parts and working on our compositions together."

"Stylistically, we're trying to push things in different ways, but it always comes out sounding like Tool no matter what we're trying to do. We're working everyday on it and it's going really well, so I'm hoping we'll get into the studio by the end of the year."

Carey was then asked about the possibility that the album would be released this year and he responded, "I doubt it. Right now, since we haven't started tracking stuff at this point, it'll be hard.