The song features performances from three members of the American rock band Tool, including Jones himself on guitar, Justin Chancellor on bass, and Danny Carey on drums.
The song is the first collaboration between the three since Tool's 2019 album Fear Inoculum, and, alongside its music video/short film, is meant to promote Jones' release of his own signature guitar through Gibson Les Paul.
[3] Additionally, frequent Tool collaborator and producer Joe Barresi was credited to mixing the track.
[1] Despite involving the entire band and its producer, except for Keenan, and frequently being mentioned in the context of Tool, "The Witness" is credited as an Adam Jones song.
[4][5][6][7] The song's music video, also created by Jones, who frequently makes Tool videos, was noted to feature a lot of bizarre imagery, including an empty spacesuit floating through an abandoned forest on an island, a strange bug-human hybrid struggling, and a series of extreme close-ups of a guitar.