Tool won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance on Sunday night (January 26th) at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, which were held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tool was nominated for “7empest,” a track from its 2019 album Fear Inoculum.
Drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor accepted the award during the pre-telecast portion of the ceremony, in which dozens of Grammys were given out before the main show began at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBS-TV.
Chancellor told the press backstage that the band was pleased to win for this song in particular: “It's great. I think it's a song that we're really proud of. Kind of pushed the boundaries a bit from our point of view. We were still being very experimental when we did this particular track. So that's pretty satisfying to be able to kind of still go out there and be included in this group of musicians. So that's great.”
In his acceptance speech, Carey said, “Wow! It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.”
The other artists that Tool beat in the category included Candlemass, Death Angel, I Prevail and Killswitch Engage.