Ongoing History Daily: Did Tool hide a song in some of their merch?

July 19, 2021July 17, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Tool is one of those bands who, when given a choice, will always do something unexpected and weird.

In a 2011 edition of a newsletter, Tool mentioned an unreleased song called “Problem 8: The Reinmann Hypothesis” which they hid in a piece of Tool merchandise. Only 30 copies of this song were included in this run of merch. The newsletter read “Most people don’t even know they have it. It’s been staring them right in the eye on nearly a daily basis. The reason they aren’t aware of it is because they’d never think to play it.”

As far as I know, this track remains undiscovered. However, it should be noted that the date on this newsletter was April 1, 2011, and Tool loves their April Fool’s jokes.

Still…

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