TOOL Thread -

[Sam Losco]

General Tool thread and, Maynard announced on JRE today that the entire Tool catalog will finally be up on digital streaming on Aug 2nd, and the new Tool album, titled Fear Inoculum will be out Aug 30th.

He did it near the beginning of the stream:

Relevant Tweet from the official Tool account:
New album: https://twitter.com/Tool/status/1155963875839242240
Streaming: https://twitter.com/Tool/status/1155964411665764352

 

[Y2K Baby]

@The Last Stand does not need his own thread.

 

[break these cuffs]

I liked TOOL a lot growing up. Should I bother listening to anything past Lateralus?

 

[A Hot Potato]

Opiate, Undertow, and Enima are all time classics.

Lateralus is hot garbage.

10000 Days is decent.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Tool? More like Drool. Also Joe Rogan is a faggot.

 

[Mr. A. L. Mao]

I liked TOOL a lot growing up. Should I bother listening to anything past Lateralus?

10,000 days has two must listen tracks:

 

[Becky's Cock n Balls]

Curious if his puscifer work will influence the new album.

 

[break these cuffs]

Tool? More like Drool. Also Joe Rogan is a faggot.

The Greer thread is thataway. Nobody itt is hawt enough for that stud.

ULTIMATE KRILL OIL > nuptropical

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Holy shit, I'm excited!
I thought this album was never going to happen!

BTW, The first two APC albums were amazing, but the third one sucked balls, and that seemed to be like the only shit he wanted to play at the APC concert I went to.

Also, he seems like a total dick.

I hope this album isn't like Chinese Democracy...a total disappointment.

Edit: The Tool concert I went to on the other hand was fucking amazing.
10/10 would go again.

 

[Dick Pooman]

When I was a lad I used to slap Tool stickers on stop signs in town because I thought it was an epic thing to do.

 

[A Hot Potato]

Hooker with a Penis is an all time highlight.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Doesn't Maynard own a vineyard or some shit?

 

[Gordon Cole]

Please for the love of all that is holy don't suck.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Opiate, Undertow, and Enima are all time classics.

Lateralus is hot garbage.

10000 Days is decent.

Sounds like you only like the edgelord era of their work. I prefer Lateralus and 10,000 Days because it feels more like what metal would be if it were an act of meditation than just being the band that exists to piss off your parents the most, and to that end they require more patience. That's not to deny that their early albums were good but I wouldn't say they're better. Lateralus and 10,000 are like what would happen if you tried making metal achieve enlightenment, rather than being different for difference sake like what happened to other bands of the same era.

I hope this album isn't like Chinese Democracy...a total disappointment.

I'm listening to it now, having never listened to it before. I can say from the first song that Chinese Democracy, at least track 1, isn't shit. It sounds like a completely different band from the 90s, but to me that's sort of a boon because there's only one Guns 'n Roses song from their prior catalog I can tolerate, I hate almost all of their music.

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

Not as big into them as I once was but glad to hear the album's finally fucking dropping. Finally going into digital streaming is great too because that means we'll finally be able to get our hands on Salival for an actually reasonable price.

Aenima will always be their best album (and Stinkfist is probably my favorite track) but they're all pretty good (tho to be fair there's only 7 of them)

 

[A Hot Potato]

Sounds like you only like the edgelord era of their work. I prefer Lateralus and 10,000 Days because it feels more like what metal would be if it were an act of meditation than just being the band that exists to piss off your parents the most, and to that end they require more patience. That's not to deny that their early albums were good but I wouldn't say they're better. Lateralus and 10,000 are like what would happen if you tried making metal achieve enlightenment, rather than being different for difference sake like what happened to other bands of the same era.

No, it's because I don't like fucking songs that take a billion fucking years to go anyway.

Also, "enlightenment".

Nigger, they are the most commerical alternative/progressive metal band in existence, aside from maybe Soad and Faith No More.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

No, it's because I don't like fucking songs that take a billion fucking years to go anyway.

Fair enough.

most commerical

So what? The only thing that matters is if the music is good.

aside from maybe Soad and Faith No More.

System of a Down is art metal, not progressive or alt.

 

[A Hot Potato]

So what? The only thing that matters is if the music is good.

And I agree, but using big terms like "enlightment" to describe their music is hardly accurate.

Godflesh makes me feel more enlightened than this, and their music is harder and of a more commerical genre (Industrial Metal).

System of a Down is art metal, not progressive or alt.

On Wikipedia, they are listed as both Alternative and Progressive on the main band page.

Metal Storm, probably the biggest metal website, lists them as Alternative.

Also, there is no such thing as "Art Metal"

Art metal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

All you get is a disambiguation page, with progressive metal being one of the possible links.

Fake News.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

And I agree, but using big terms like "enlightment" to describe their music is hardly accurate.

I only meant it to describe an ongoing theme in the album, not to literally say the music is itself enlightened.

On Wikipedia, they are listed as both Alternative and Progressive on the main band page.

Metal Storm, probably the biggest metal website, lists them as Alternative.

Also, there is no such thing as "Art Metal"

Art metal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

All you get is a disambiguation page, with progressive metal being one of the possible links.

Fake News.

Here's a reference in which they're categorized as art metal.

Toxicity (album) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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[Gordon Cole]

Also, there is no such thing as "Art Metal"

Ahem.