Tool are not any strangers to placing out weirdly imaginative and elaborate paraphernalia for his or her data (simply take a look at video display screen and audio system that got here with Fear Inoculum’s bodily CD launch). So, it solely is sensible that they’re about to commemorate 2006’s 10,000 Days with a fetus cranium statue, proper?
The band unveiled the restricted version “Fetus Skull Maquette” – as they name it – this previous Friday (Dec. 9) through social media. As Blabbermouth famous, a maquette is “a model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualize how it might look and to work out approaches and materials for how it might be made.”
The quartet additionally talked about that it’ll be their first collectible statue, and that it’s impressed by the album art work of longtime collaborator Alex Grey.
Clearly, that is what Tool had been teasing final month with that cryptic Instagram submit, resulting in a wide-range of reactions from followers relating to the large reveal.
For occasion, one Facebook person wrote: “If you told me when I woke up this morning that I would want a fetus skull for Christmas before lunchtime then I wouldn’t believe you, but now I would like a fetus skull for Christmas.” In distinction, somebody on Instagram sarcastically replied: “Didn’t Indiana Jones already find that shit?”
Oddly sufficient, Tool didn’t submit the announcement on Twitter.
Those seeking to purchase the merchandise shall be in a position to take action beginning this Friday (Dec. 16) at 9AM PT / 12PM ET. However, it’s unclear how a lot the cranium will price, what number of shall be out there or how precisely followers should purchase it.
You can see Tool’s full “Fetus Skull Maquette” announcement – and extra reactions from followers – beneath.
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