A music video for the song was released on DVD on December 18, 2007. "Vicarious" was officially released to radio on April 17, and entered both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts both at number 2. On March 27, 2006, Billboard posted an article about 10,000 Days, which mentioned that " Vicarious" would be the album's first single. Grey stated in another interview when making the 10,000 Days cover that it depicts visions received during a DMT trip (the main chemical ingredient in ayahuasca). He described the 10,000 Days cover as "a blazing vision of an infinite grid of Godheads during an ayahuasca journey", and also talked about the Lateralus cover in a similar fashion. In an interview, Alex Grey, who worked on the illustrations for the 10,000 Days and Lateralus covers, said that many of his artworks for Tool have been based on and influenced by the visionary journeys of a brew called ayahuasca. On May 5, 2006, the band's official webmaster hinted that "the four individual photos can be used as the pieces of a kind of puzzle", but the puzzle and its meaning "will just be another nut to crack". As with Tool's other albums, the lyrics are not printed within the artwork vocalist Maynard James Keenan has instead released the lyrics online. The CD face itself is decorated with stylized eyes, arranged in a seemingly logarithmic spiral toward the center (adapted from a previous Alex Grey painting, "Collective Vision"). Alex Grey, who created a majority of the album art for Lateralus and its accompanying video "Parabola", reprised his role for 10,000 Days. Viewed with the glasses, the artwork produces an illusion of depth and three-dimensionality.
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The compact disc packaging for 10,000 Days consists of a thick cardboard-bound booklet partly covered by a flap holding a pair of stereoscopic eyeglasses, which can be used to view a series of images inside. According to singer Maynard James Keenan, the Saturn return is "the time in your twenty eighth, twenty ninth year when you are presented the opportunity to transform from whatever your hang-ups were before to let the light of knowledge and experience lighten your load, so to speak, and let go of old patterns and embrace a new life." Keenan expected that the songs composed would "chronicle that process, hoping that my gift back would be to share that path and hope that I could help somebody get past that spot." Packaging and artwork The title 10,000 Days is thought to refer to the orbital period of the planet Saturn (actual time period is 10,759 days). 10,000 Days has a heavier sound than its predecessor, largely because of the influence of avant-garde grindcore band Fantômas which toured with Tool before the writing process. Drummer Danny Carey operated many of the sound effects on the interlude tracks on the album using electronic drums called Mandalas. The "pipe bomb microphone" and other studio related information was further detailed in the Jissue of Mix. Jones explained that recording techniques for the album involved the use of a "pipe bomb microphone" (a guitar pickup mounted inside a brass cylinder), and a talk box guitar solo on the song "Jambi". The June 2006 issue of Guitar World (released April 11, 2006) featured an interview with guitarist Adam Jones discussing the new album. It was mixed at Bay 7 in North Hollywood, CA and mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, Maine. The album was recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank, California, as well as at The Loft and Grandmaster Studios in Hollywood, California.
ġ0,000 Days was Tool's last release for more than a decade the band would not release their next studio album, Fear Inoculum, until August 30, 2019.
The album was awarded a double platinum certification by the RIAA. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 564,000 copies.
10,000 Days spawned three top 10 rock singles: " Vicarious", " The Pot" and " Jambi". It was mixed at Bay 7 in North Hollywood, California and mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, Maine. It marked the first time since recording 1993's Undertow that the band had worked at Grandmaster and without producer David Bottrill. Recording took place at O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank, California, The Loft, and Grandmaster Studios (both in Hollywood, California).
The album was released by Tool Dissectional and Volcano Entertainment on Apin parts of Europe, Apin Australia, in the United Kingdom, and on in North America. 10,000 Days is the fourth studio album by American rock band Tool.