Tool on course for highest ever UK album chart entry with 'Fear Inoculum'

Tool are on course for their highest ever entry on the Official UK Album Chart with their phenomenal fifth studio album ‘Fear Inoculum’.

The band’s sprawling magnum opus, which was unleased to the world last Friday (30th August), is currently at Number 2 on the album chart according to the Official Charts Company.

If Tool fend off the likes of Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Oasis and maintain the No.2 slot by the end of the week it will be their highest charting album in the UK, beating 2006’s ‘10,000 Days’, which peaked at Number 4.

Sadly, it’s highly unlikely ‘Fear Inoculum’ will reach the top spot on these shores as Lana Del Rey’s new record ‘Norman Fking Rockwell’ is currently outselling it by more than double.

Last month, Slipknot’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’ became the first heavy metal album since Iron Maiden’s ‘The Book of Souls’ in 2015 to top the UK album chart.

Over in Tool’s native US the band are locked in a battle with Taylor Swift's ‘Lover’ for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart.

According to Hits Daily Double, ‘Fear Inoculum’ is expected to sell between 240,000 and 260,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release Stateside.

Maynard James Keenan, Danny Carey, Adam Jones and Justin Chancellor recently announced a massive North American arena tour which takes in 26 shows throughout October and November 2019.

Tool, of course, headlined Download Festival this summer. Their last UK headline shows took place in August 2007 when they played Manchester Carling Apollo and two nights at London’s Carling Academy Brixton.

We’ll wait for Tool UK tour news with baited breath…

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