Tool's Maynard James Keenan Shoots Down Album Release Speculation

The trio of musicians will be performing together at a benefit concert for Resonance FM at the 100 Club in London on March 28th. Organizers published the following description for the event:

"A unique musical meeting of three of the most inventive performers of our time - for perhaps the only time - all to benefit Resonance FM! As co-founder and legendary multi-instrumentalist with Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones needs no introduction. A restless and radical musical innovator for over half a century - as composer, arranger, and producer across genres ranging from pop to opera to electronica and avant-garde - he is joined for this intimate performance at the iconic The 100 Club by like minds in the form of Thurston Moore and Steve Noble.

The new album will be entitled "The Gospel Truth" and is set to be released on an as-yet-revealed date sometime later this year. Gilby spoke with Gibson about the album during this year's NAMM show. Watch the interview here.

"We've said we want to play every venue and market we've visited one last time, so we get to see all of Skynyrd Nation," says frontman Johnny Van Zant, "so that's the plan."

Forge tells Billboard that he has been working on the project "for months now," with plans to be in the studio again by the beginning of 2020 with a release later that year.

"Luckily, this time around, I feel very certain as to what I want to do," says Forge. "I have tons of bits and pieces and stuff written, and I know that once I really start working that there's going to be a record which feels very inspired.

"The dramaturgic nature of the records and the stories are getting more and more intertwined nowadays, which I like. It's almost like working with a series, I guess; you have your characters and you can still f**k with them and add new things and take things away. You can do whatever you want, which is always enticing from a creative standpoint."

After winning a Best Metal Performance Grammy in 2016 for "Cirice," Ghost is up for a pair of awards - Best Rock Album for "Prequelle" and Best Rock Song for "Rats" - at the 61st annual event.

"It's a great honor - very, very joyous," explains Forge, who's also won three Grammy Awards in Sweden and will fly in from Ghost's European tour to attend this year's Grammy ceremony. "You'd think that anyone who experienced being nominated and winning one maybe wouldn't care so much about getting another one, but I can really vouch that is not the case.

The project celebrates the band's 35th anniversary and spans their entire studio recording career - from their 1985 debut, "Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good", to the 2016 Grammy Award-winning release, "Dystopia."

"'Warheads On Foreheads' is a US military term for targeting efficiency," explaisn Dave Mustaine. "It's all about using the right tool for the job and these tracks were created for maximum destruction (or stopping power, or something else!)."

The compilation will be available in multiple versions, including 3CD, 4LP and digital formats, while a limited-edition, 4LP set pressed on silver colored vinyl will be available exclusively through the band's online store.

The tune was featured on the band's tenth album, "Hardwired...To Self-Destruct", which debuted at No 1 on the US Billboard 200 to deliver the group their sixth US chart-topper.

Mould had this to say about the new visual, "The video follows the protagonist who is trying to find solace and anonymity in an increasingly corrupt world filled with paranoia and misinformation.