I know I can't prove this, but because of all the hype here I spoke to my friend who works at a local CD store if he knew anything. He checked the list of incoming CD's and the list he had (and I saw it) said 'Tool - 10,000 Days (Double Album)' the list was from Intermusic SA? I will try and get a copy uploaded. This could be interesting...

Now this, I believe. Seriously.

Sure it didn't say "double disc"?


A lot of albums recently have been released in single disc and double disc format, with music on one side and extras on the other, on the dual disc.

What I would like you to do, is prove that you aint some fucked up lurker with 1 post, and make us all very happy my making a whole nother post to move your grand total to 2, by adding a link to a source, and make us all very happy people.

Stop getting my hopes up!

Well if this is true then that means I'm only paying 8 pound for a double cd album...which isn't really believable.

Could you scan the list and load it up? Then the discussion can go on, otherwise we're again wasting our time.

It could have been 'Double Disc', but it seemed to be worded like there was 2 discs, I need to get a copy!

I hope it's a double disc! Maybe the leak was all their shitty music and the better stuff is still to come!

That way lay madness =/

Until proof, it is a rumour...

let me make this 100% clear:

IF THIS TURNS OUT TO BE AUTHENTIC, AND THE MUSIC DOES, IN FACT, NOT SUCK ASS, I AM GOING TO PUSH MY PENIS VERY, VERY DEEP INTO THE HOLE IN YOUR ASS AND COMMENCE HAVING SEX WITH IT.


and i am in no way kidding.

Me too.

*high five*

My local CD store doesn't say it's a double album, and I checked with them to make sure.

What you're hearing is it, people. It's the new 10,000 Days album.

lol

bullshit

My Father works at a local CD store (that means he is a god, just like radio DJs) and he told me that the new Toolalbum isn't called 10000 days but 'Bassfreeker has 2 posts and 0 balls'.

I think there's only going to be 10,000 copies released, one for each day and they can only sell one a day. Sux 2 B A TEWL FAN

I stopped reading right about there.

It's one physical CD, but it will be double-sided. You can flip the CD over in your player and play the REAL album. First time this has been done. Good job Tool.

heh, didn't Alex Grey say that the "unit itself" is unlike anything anyone has ever done? I still don't believe it, though.

Double Disks pwn Dual disks. Dual Disks suck big time.

I'd rather have 2 physical cds than one with two sides and no artwork.

Well I tend to believe this is a possiblity. With the new lightscribe technology and everything Alex Grey could very possibly do some art on the actual disc and still have it play on both sides.

The more I listen to the leak and listen to the production quality and compare it to that of lateralus the more I think it kinda sounds muffled a bit and unclear at times. When I listen to Lateralus the vocals are crisp and clear and I can here every little bit of the instruments in each song. I have a very high quality sound system in my car and maybe thats the reason I can see the difference.


Hmm wouldnt having a dual sided disc bring a similarity to all that stereoscopic stuff like seeing two images in one?

Idon't think so.
A good friend of mine works in a music store and he's holding out that the leak is a decoy but I asked him about this and they don't have any record that it's a double album at all.

when commenting on the soundquality, you have to keep in mind that it's indeed a leak encoded in a lossy format and the actual disc will sound much better.

2-disc or hoax album...i'll wait until may.

320 KPS is bad quality?

Yea but ACC usually tends to sound as good as high bit rate mp3s or better. Either way I love the album so I will be happy either way but I sure would love to see a dual disc.

There's been talk that this album "feels shorter" than Lateralus. That's becuse it is... it's 76 minutes and take away viginti tres, lipan conjuring and lost keys, we're looking at 66 minutes roughly. Lateralus was what, 88 minutes? and it had much shorter interludes that were also more relevant to the music (eon blue melding into Patient, mantra into Schism, etc..)

So I am not dismissive of the rumors of a double album with more music, but the idea that the other disc is simply a DVD- audio format is much more plausible.

Basically, Lateralus was an opus, it's hard to top or even match that. I think we should be happy with what we have.

Well the interludes on 10,000 days are completely stupid if you ask me. There really arent enough songs on the album even though the songs on there are long. There needed to be more variety rather then wasting space on the cd with interludes. Mind you the songs that are on there all rock. At least the interludes and stuff on lateralus were more revlelant to the music so I didnt mind it as much.

the original leak was 192kbps AAC, ripped with iTunes. If you have a 320kbps MP3 rip, it would mean it's a transcode, and this would further compress the music.

edit: well, not directly compress the music, but it would be transcoded and this will result in even more loss. AAC and iTunes aren't that great of a combination when it comes to encoding CDs.

my 2 cent.

Haven't you paid any attention to reviews? The idea was to intentionally make his voice sound more like one of the instruments to equal out all sounds within te musics compared to past records. I personally love "supposed" album I now have but, another one on top of that would be that much better.

I concur, read Guitar World's interview with Adam, read any legitimate review of the album ( they all bring up the same lyrics and talk about how there are re hashings of old tool parts throughout as a reminder), this is the real deal, if anyone seriously deeply believes otherwise then I imagine you'll be disappointed the day it drops. What does it say in the forum? "Anyone posting links to leaked material will be banned.", now, why would they ban someone for posting a link to a "decoy" album? Think things through and read between the lines, because it's possible there is something that has been forgotten, missed, overlooked within the words of newsletters and interviews. I happen to love this record, enough to not bash it and still buy the physical copy the day it drops. It is heavier as well, not necessarily musically but ambiently, emotionally, it's down right suffocating. So you have 2 options, you can think about my post and decide for yourself or you can curse me of and tell me to shove it and all manner of language under the sun. Choose carefully.

The only thing that leads me to believe there may be more is something that was mentioned in Kabir's review. He said at the end of his impromptu listening session that he did not get to hear Viginti Tres, but was told that it was another segue. Now, doesn't segue mean that it is supposed to "segue into" something else? Maybe Viginti Tres segues into whatever may be on the other disc/other side of the disc. I could be, and probably am, wrong, but Viginti Tres definitely sounded like something was supposed to happen after the end, and in my opinion was a terrible way to end the album if there is nothing else coming.

Nice zeroth post.

Well the instruments even sound muffled to me. The whole thing sounds like poor quality regardless I hope it sounds crisper when i buy it.

sounds like someone misused the word "segue" more than anything, but who knows

10,000 days as it is now is awesome.

LOLOLOOL

POOR QUALITY?

Wow.

This is one of the best recordings I've heard in a long time. The quality of this album is YEARS beyond Lateralus. And I'm listening to it on Mackie HR-824s. These aren't shitty speakers by any means.