{"id":1985690,"date":"2025-08-28T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985690"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:34:11","slug":"tools-justin-chancellor-talks-ozzy-new-music-ahead-of-good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tools-justin-chancellor-talks-ozzy-new-music-ahead-of-good-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool\u2019s Justin Chancellor Talks Ozzy, New Music Ahead of Good Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> sure went out with a bang. For his final show, staged last month at Villa Park in his hometown, Birmingham, the legendary rocker assembled a lineup that was heavier than the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone in the stadium, or watching on at home, \u2018Back to the Beginning\u2019 will be remembered as one of the finest moments for music at the dark end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The show turned out to be the swansong and sendoff to Ozzy, who passed away two-and-a-half weeks later, having orchestrated his own, final party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even explain it. There\u2019s a little hard to get my head around,\u201d explains Justin Chancellor, bass player with Tool, performers at the<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-back-to-the-beginning-concert-1235379405\/\" target=\"_blank\"> one-off show<\/a>, where they shared the stage with Metallica, Slayer, Guns N\u2019 Roses and other members of rock royalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched his whole set with my family out in the front when Sabbath and Ozzy played and I thought he was amazing. Obviously, he was really sick. You know, obviously he couldn\u2019t stand up, but we all knew this. The band was incredible, but he was amazing too.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TOOL - The Grudge (Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3BXyEUOuNds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Chancellor observed Ozzy afterwards at the backstage party, in great spirits. \u201cHe came out, he was in a wheelchair but he was hanging out. There were so many people talking to him.\u201d Fast forward 17 days, and the news of Ozzy\u2019s passing, at 76, seemed like black comedy. A weird joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t see it coming at all,\u201d Chancellor says. \u201cI can\u2019t even explain it. It\u2019s a little hard to get my head around. It was very intense, because we\u2019ve been part of (the final show). And it hit me pretty hard. It was very sad, but also very amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He adds, \u201cI did hear that he went off his pain medication to do the show in order to be able to hit the notes and to be more coherent. He went through quite a lot of pain to actually pull that off. It blew my mind. But it made sense when I saw the performance. It was just incredibly emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than a month has passed since Ozzy left us, \u201cbut it\u2019s hard to talk about,\u201d Chancellor continues. \u201cMaybe he just let go. That\u2019s fucking beautiful in a way that this guy gave it all up, not just to us, but to everybody. It\u2019s hard to put your head around it or put words to it, but there\u2019s something very beautiful about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Ozzy\u2019s final, nine-hour session of heavy music, Tool tore through a setlist that included \u201cForty Six &amp; 2\u201d, \u201c\u00c6nema\u201d and a cover of Black Sabbath\u2019s \u201cHand of Doom\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TOOL - Schism (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MM62wjLrgmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Australian audiences will get the chance to feel the noise when the prog-metal legends return later in 2025, for a headline spot on the three-city <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/good-things-festival-2025-dates-venue-announce-80753\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Things<\/a> run, their first Australian festival headline spot since Big Day Out 2011, and first tour here in over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Tool is more than band. A four-time Grammy Award winner with five, brutal albums, they\u2019re a heavy music cult, masters of the dark arts.<\/p>\n<p>The touring lineup will again be led by the enigmatic Maynard James Keenan, Chancellor, guitarist Adam Jones, and drummer Danny Carey, one of the best to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from his studio in Los Angeles, Chancellor admits the setlist hasn\u2019t yet been decided. \u201cThe Grudge,\u201d from 2001\u2019s <em>Lateralus<\/em>, is a \u201cfavourite of ours, it\u2019s like a go-to song that always works with a lot of different combinations of songs old and new. We love it, but we kind of leave it up to Maynard. As we get older, he\u2019s the most sensitive to age, you know, because his instrument is his voice. The rest of us can just about pull it off. Danny\u2019s the oldest and he\u2019s got the most physical job. But at least he can go work out. Maynard\u2019s got to keep his voice in ship shape. We get some say, obviously, and we can make suggestions. We\u2019re very sensitive to his needs as far as that goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will Australian hear new material, something fresh that has emerged blinking into the light of day following 2019\u2019s<em> Fear Inoculum<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got ideas of maybe releasing a song on its own. I\u2019m not sure. We\u2019ve got a lot of irons in the fire, a lot of great tracks that aren\u2019t finished in any way. But it\u2019s really down to deciding the way we want to do it. The whole climate\u2019s changed a bit. We could release one track at a time if we wanted to,\u201d Chancellor admits. \u201cWe did the Black Sabbath song \u2018Hand of Doom\u2019 and were like, \u2018that\u2019s pretty cool\u2019. Maybe we should release another one of our new songs with it, like an old-fashioned 7\u201d single with a B-side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tool\u2019s last visit to Australia was in February 2020, just before the world went into lockdown. A slew of dates to support <em>Fear Inoculum<\/em> were announced, then cancelled, thanks to the pandemic. \u201cIt\u2019s so incredibly exciting to be back there. Australia feels almost like a lost island,\u201d he quips. \u201cWe used to go quite irregularly. It\u2019d be part of the circuit.\u201d Part of the blame can be attributed to a batch of festivals falling over, including Big Day Out and Soundwave, and \u201cthe hangover from COVID was even longer than we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That next Tool album is coming along, too. \u201cWe\u2019re working on it,\u201d Chancellor assures. \u201cThat\u2019s all I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: TOOL\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8?si=UqmstUytTkCorLfZIa428w&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1404\"><strong data-start=\"1355\" data-end=\"1402\">Good Things Festival 2025 Dates and Venues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"1407\" data-end=\"1462\"><strong>Friday, December 5th<\/strong><br \/>Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1515\"><strong>Saturday, December 6th<\/strong><br \/>Sydney Showground, Sydney<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1515\"><strong>Sunday, December 7th<\/strong><br \/>Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tickets are available at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oztix.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">oztix.com.au.<\/a> Visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodthingsfestival.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodthingsfestival.com.<wbr\/>au<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne sure went out with a bang. 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