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It's like if a song that didn't make the cut from Lateralus married a song that didn't make the cut from 10,000 days and they had a bunch of inbred children.

This has got to be a joke.

Every song, save for Sevenempest and maybe Fear Inoculum, sounds almost identical and they all seem to follow the same exact progression in the songs. Then there's the little 2-3 minute tracks which are basically noise with a Danny Carey solo. I don't know what it says about the album but you can stream it off of Amazon for free, granted if you have prime. I'm having a hard time believing this is legit. There's no character of soul to any of these songs. If this is real then it's the biggest disappointment for me since Primus became a band that performed on Les Claypool albums.
 
I actually liked it a lot. It's about where I expected their direction to go after 10,000 days, Pneuma fucking jams, and I'm a drummer so 3 minutes of Danny Carey soloing over a weird electronic loop is my cup of tea.
 
Absolutego said:
I actually liked it a lot. It's about where I expected their direction to go after 10,000 days, Pneuma fucking jams, and I'm a drummer so 3 minutes of Danny Carey soloing over a weird electronic loop is my cup of tea.
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That's fair. Someone earlier stated that they thought the album would be Tool's chillest which I would agree with them. I'm sorry but I don't listen to Tool to chill. I want some teeth in my rock. It's just not clicking for me and it might just be me.
 
Ralph Barnhardt said:
It's like if a song that didn't make the cut from Lateralus married a song that didn't make the cut from 10,000 days and they had a bunch of inbred children.

This has got to be a joke.

Every song, save for Sevenempest and maybe Fear Inoculum, sounds almost identical and they all seem to follow the same exact progression in the songs. Then there's the little 2-3 minute tracks which are basically noise with a Danny Carey solo. I don't know what it says about the album but you can stream it off of Amazon for free, granted if you have prime. I'm having a hard time believing this is legit. There's no character of soul to any of these songs. If this is real then it's the biggest disappointment for me since Primus became a band that performed on Les Claypool albums.
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Agreed and I think the core of the problem is Maynard's voice is shot and the rest of the band has to pick up the slack. So: 90 minutes of interminable jam session bullshit without the grounding that a rock band usually gets from its vocalist.

My pick for best (least worst) track: 7empest.
 
Ralph Barnhardt said:
It's like if a song that didn't make the cut from Lateralus married a song that didn't make the cut from 10,000 days and they had a bunch of inbred children.

This has got to be a joke.

Every song, save for Sevenempest and maybe Fear Inoculum, sounds almost identical and they all seem to follow the same exact progression in the songs. Then there's the little 2-3 minute tracks which are basically noise with a Danny Carey solo. I don't know what it says about the album but you can stream it off of Amazon for free, granted if you have prime. I'm having a hard time believing this is legit. There's no character of soul to any of these songs. If this is real then it's the biggest disappointment for me since Primus became a band that performed on Les Claypool albums.
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What song does Descending sound like?
 
Each spin this release gets more and more arduous to listen to. Too much good metal being released weekly to waste time on this tripe. Ænima remains one of my favourite albums but, between this album and a meh live performance, a few months ago, Tool is completely done, in my opinion.
 
6.5/10

There are some solid tracks and standout riffs. Far too little vocals. Culling Voices is ironically named, as it starts out with this awesome vocal line but when the song proper kicks in, Maynard leaves the vocal booth to tend to his vineyard. The arrangements get so taxing and wrought at times that the album feels like you're sitting in the corner of a garage, listening to them trying to flesh out the song you're hearing. Invincible, Pneuma and Descending seem to suffer the least from that particular issue.

Decent? Yeah. Perfect? Nope. Worth a 13 year wait? Most certainly not.
 
AnOminous said:
Tori Amos is Tool for redhead emo chicks.
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No, that's Trent Reznor

Tool's female counterpart would be Laurie Anderson, though that would be a bit of a stretch in that Anderson herself is way too much of an optimist compared to Maynard.
 
MirrorNoir said:
No, that's Trent Reznor

Tool's female counterpart would be Laurie Anderson, though that would be a bit of a stretch in that Anderson herself is way too much of an optimist compared to Maynard.
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I like all of them tbh.
 
I don't like Tool. I liked the videos they did in the 90s. But WMMR keeps playing the Fear whatever song and I think it is too long for radio. Unless it isn't and just drags because I don't care for it. This is coming from someone who hates radio edits mind you.

I don't hate Tool. But I don't really want to listen to them either. So I won't buy the album. I actually had no idea they had anything after the ones from the 90s. I totally forgot they existed.
 
Have a hard time comparing their albums because what I want to hear fluctuates, BUT I know that when shit gets rough Aenima has always helped me push through whatever "problems" I may be dealing with. Good for cardio aswell.
 
It seems a lot of fans don't really like this new album. I was really surprised at first, cause I thought Fear Inoculum was some of the greatest shit ive ever heard, but now that I think about it, it makes sense.
Pretty much everyone who dislikes the new album prefers Enima (one of my least favorites). Whats happened I think is that they've slowly had a pretty big style change around Lateralus.
They've gone from hard rock to psychedelic rock. They included references to psychedelic drugs and shamanism in the past in lyrics but it wasn't so present in the sound as it is in Fear Inoculum. To really get the full experience you need to listen with some good headphones and be high. If you don't have magic mushrooms or even LSD, just smoke a shit ton of weed. I'm not even joking about the getting high part, I actually got some mild synesthesia while listening to Pneuma. Also there cover artist is Alex Grey what the fuck where you expecting?
MJ seems to have stepped away from his edgy atheist phase and moved on to spirituality. Im willing to bet he's also a fan of shrooms and DTM. This has slowly been building for a while, and I think The Humbling River is a great example of this
This song is from 2012 but it's lyrical content is actually very similar to Pneuma.
New music is very trippy and spiritual with the best quality being the sound design (hence why you need good headphones). That's very unusual for rock music so I guess I can understand why rock fans might not like it.
Tool is now a psychedelic rock band u guys don't understand cause u don't do enough drugs
 
Phallacies said:
What song does Descending sound like?
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It's sounds like shit.
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Rev said:
It seems a lot of fans don't really like this new album. I was really surprised at first, cause I thought Fear Inoculum was some of the greatest shit ive ever heard, but now that I think about it, it makes sense.
Pretty much everyone who dislikes the new album prefers Enima (one of my least favorites). Whats happened I think is that they've slowly had a pretty big style change around Lateralus.
They've gone from hard rock to psychedelic rock. They included references to psychedelic drugs and shamanism in the past in lyrics but it wasn't so present in the sound as it is in Fear Inoculum. To really get the full experience you need to listen with some good headphones and be high. If you don't have magic mushrooms or even LSD, just smoke a shit ton of weed. I'm not even joking about the getting high part, I actually got some mild synesthesia while listening to Pneuma. Also there cover artist is Alex Grey what the fuck where you expecting?
MJ seems to have stepped away from his edgy atheist phase and moved on to spirituality. Im willing to bet he's also a fan of shrooms and DTM. This has slowly been building for a while, and I think The Humbling River is a great example of this https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0YxeTjFn70This song is from 2012 but it's lyrical content is actually very similar to Pneuma.
New music is very trippy and spiritual with the best quality being the sound design (hence why you need good headphones). That's very unusual for rock music so I guess I can understand why rock fans might not like it.
Tool is now a psychedelic rock band u guys don't understand cause u don't do enough drugs
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I don't want to be that guy who gets all gatekeep-y about music genres, but Tool, even with Fear Inoculum, isn't psychedelic rock. Go listen to Tame Impala, the Oh Sees or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and tell me Tool sounds even remotely like that. They don't even sound like the old-school version of psych rock (think Jefferson Airplane).

People generally don't like the latest Tool record because it sounds insufficiently dissimilar from the last 2 records to justify the 13 year wait, and there are some electronic interludes that flop on their face. Some of the people who dislike it might be Aenima fans mad that Maynard can't scream anymore but I've heard far more about how it's just another Tool record than people talking about Maynard's voice being shot.

I liked it well enough though, I'm still listening to it every couple of weeks
 
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