Tool: 10 Albums We Waited For Longer Than The New Album
6. At The Drive-In - In•ter A•li•a (~17 Years)
At the turn of the 21st Century, very few could touch At the Drive-In. Early promise was shown in In/Casino/Out, but no one could have predicted the post-hardcore behemoth that was Relationship of Command. The 2000 album was a brutal yet emotive affair that blended post-hardcore with emo and art punk.
The success of Relationship... would end up playing a huge part of the band's demise.
ATDI cancelled a number of live appearances in Europe, citing mental and physical exhaustion as the cause. This, flared tempers, artistic differences, drug cocktails, they all piled up that resulted in the band's sudden breakup less than a year after the album's release.
In 2009, rumblings of a reunion began. This led to a confirmed appearance at Coachella 2012 and some mixed reception follow-up shows, with an album eventually coming in 2017.
The end result, in•ter a•li•a, was not as well received as previous efforts to say the least. A perceived lack of cohesion, lacklustre riffs, and a painful gap where former guitarist/vocalist Jim Ward used to be, the return album sounds like a bad At the Drive-In cover bad or the lads trying to remember what they're meant to sound like.