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What does the third decade look like for a band whose hit singles include “ Prison Sex” and “ Stinkfist”? But honestly I’m just glad they decided not to do stupid picture discs like they did with Lateralus. The stripped-down purity of sound here means that everything hangs on the songs themselves, all of which run over 10 minutes, save for a few ambient interludes and a palate-cleansing, nearly five-minute Carey drum solo backed by a giant custom synth. They're still masters of odd time signatures and 10+ minute songs but other than that, it was tough to find anything that really stood out to me while listening. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.

Tool to release triple vinyl edition of Fear Inoculum with Tool to release triple vinyl edition of Fear Inoculum with

I like 'Pneuma' just over 'Fear Inoculum' and on most recent listens, 'Invincible' got my attention. I have now seen comments online stating that some versions have lyrics and some versions do not, I have seen comments stating that zero versions have lyrics.

It doesn't sound like the band challenged themselves or grew in any meaningful way over the last thirteen years. I'm going to keep it as I love the artwork and sound on the rest of the album but sad that the pressing quality didn't live up to the mastering and packaging.

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on Billboard's Top 200 and earned heaps of critical praise with NPR saying, " Fear Inoculum was worth the 13-year wait," Revolver proclaiming the album "a masterpiece to be dissected for years to come" and Consequence Of Sound saying the release finds "TOOL in peak performance.Tool is a very visually driven band and I expected something a little more visually interesting to look at than what they chose for the album cover. Their multi-part songs are loosely about embracing pain, grief, desire, transgression, until all your chakras are open and you know exactly why the pieces fit. The hybridization that made Tool so popular on the radio in the late ’90s has rusted: They are part stoner metal, part prog rock, part mainstream metal, all working in ignorance and opposition to each other. It'll feature new artwork from Adam Jones and will be presented in a triple gatefold sleeve, complete with double-sided poster. Outer sleeve artwork is cool not blurry like some cover art that you can tell has been printed several times over to the point where you can barely make out any details.

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A fine example of what the group have always done so well - running with wolves like Mogwai, only with far more metal sensibilities, and a damn-sight bigger helping of experimentalism, when this bad boy arrived in 2019 it shot straight to the top of the US Billboard 200, the third consecutive record from the group to do so. Okay, I am slowly starting to sort out the songs here, but it is more like parts of songs that I love, and often they are well into the song, like the guitars about 2/3s of the way into 'Descending'. Originally clocking in at 5 minutes 20 seconds, the new take on the track, titled Opiate², extended the party to a monstrous 9 minutes and 54 seconds. In recent years, Keenan has spoken to the press far more about his Arizona winery than Tool’s music. And yet there’s still that Morrissey-level smugness when looking back at his glory years: “The things we’ve done/Caligula would grin.Earlier this year, Tool marked the 30th anniversary of the release of their debut EP, Opiate, by releasing a reworked and extended version of its title track. Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox!

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The stoners of Sleep or the experimentalists of Sumac own this lane of daring, hypnotic metal songs because they bring stakes; you hear people moving in on the instruments and ripping out the notes. I kept waiting for it to break open because it felt like there was a buildup many times but it just never happened.The presentation and packaging is also done well, it’s almost like an art book, a little over the top but that's Tool. But ever since hiding a song at track 69 of their 1993 debut album, Tool have always been sort of in on the joke. They thrive in an enormously popular world of polyrhythms and prurience; of Jungian philosophy and Bill Hicks memes; of pewter dragon statues with orbs in their mouths and guys telling you that DMT is actually a chemical in your brain. His wine, his other bands Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, and his restless and enigmatic nature are, in part, the reasons behind the 13-year break between now and Tool’s previous album, 10,000 Days, a gap made almost mythic by the band’s absence from streaming services until earlier this year.