Anticlimactic is the right word. It just didn’t go anywhere.
Tool announce new album, Fear Inoculum, coming August 30
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Anticlimactic is the right word. It just didn’t go anywhere.
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It's a Tool-ass Tool song. I'm cool with it.
I think I just realized, having not listened to Tool regularly in a VERY long time outside of the occasional track here and there after being borderline obsessed with them for years, that I feel Aenima was their peak. It was the perfect blend of the aggressive of Undertow, and the proginess of Lateralus. 10,000 Days I honestly don't go back to much.
Also, I honestly kind of like how Lateralus is meditative. Although in hindsight it makes me wish Ticks and Leeches was on a different album. Kinda breaks up the meditative nature abruptly then just disappears again...
I think I just realized, having not listened to Tool regularly in a VERY long time outside of the occasional track here and there after being borderline obsessed with them for years, that I feel Aenima was their peak. It was the perfect blend of the aggressive of Undertow, and the proginess of Lateralus. 10,000 Days I honestly don't go back to much.
Also, I honestly kind of like how Lateralus is meditative. Although in hindsight it makes me wish Ticks and Leeches was on a different album. Kinda breaks up the meditative nature abruptly then just disappears again...
Ben Pinkus
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From not being a die hard tool fan and someone who hasn't actively listened to them recently, I really really liked this new song! Definately appreciate them more now then 13 years ago too
cardinal
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I like Tool, but most of their albums are hit and miss for me, and a lot of it I find actively annoying. Opiate and Undertow are pretty good all the way through. I love some of the songs on Aenima, but there's a few strange filler tracks and the two minute intro to Eulogy always annoyed me. Lateralus and 10,000 was more of that: some great songs (The Grudge, The Pot) mixed in with some meh mixed in with what I consider filler stuff of what might as well be monks chanting. For example, Ticks and Leeches has break in there that seems like at least 90 seconds of pretty much nothing happening. WTF? I just don't understand what their artistic vision is with this stuff; it's not for me, at least.
I love that break in Ticks and Leeches
cardinal
Buys guitars, sometimes plays them
MASS DEFECT
SS.ORG Infiltrator
Lateralus was their heaviest though. The bass tone on that one is just crisp and sat well on the mix.
RustInPeace
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I swear the same drum beats were used on "Reflection", and part of the vocal melodies around 7 something were from Puscifers "Grand Canyon" .
gunshow86de
Beef Jerky Time
I kind of think it would have been better to not release any singles. After all this time, it was bound to be underwhelming for a lot of people. They are definitely more of an "album band" anyway (yes, I'm aware they have had hit singles in the past).
That said, I've listened to the single 5 or 6 times now. I really like it. Sounds like it could easily have been on Lateralus, which is my favorite Tool album and the only one I still listen to with any regularity.
That said, I've listened to the single 5 or 6 times now. I really like it. Sounds like it could easily have been on Lateralus, which is my favorite Tool album and the only one I still listen to with any regularity.
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Doug N
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Correct
Ataraxia2320
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Thought I was tripping balls when I heard the grand canyon vocal melodies. GC is such a better song than this.
Kidneythief
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I'm afraid, that the following will happen: everyone has high hopes and expectations, because we have been "waiting" for over a decade to hear new music from Tool. Now that it finally happens, it is Tool as Tool can get, but nothing new mind blowing.
Despite this, the song delivers what I wanted. Awesome spacey bass riffs (Justin <3), cool tight drumming, weird guitars, and Maynard singing.
Despite this, the song delivers what I wanted. Awesome spacey bass riffs (Justin <3), cool tight drumming, weird guitars, and Maynard singing.
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I enjoy their music, but I won't lie, I was a little disappointed when I heard they were releasing their albums on streaming services. I know streaming music is the hip way to listen to music nowadays, but my personal opinion of it is largely negative. I mean it's fine for Drake and Katie whatever her name is, but the curmudgeon in me kind of wishes it didn't exist at all.
Demiurge
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^There's nothing inherently wrong with making music available. That said, going on a streaming platform might seem like the artist is "buying in" to a system that pays musicians crap for the sake of exposure. Maybe the decision is based on being heard versus not being heard- or knowing that their music going to be illegally downloaded or put up on Youtube without their consent anyway.
I cannot believe the people whose thought process is to type something about a new track when they've heard it once/ when it's still playing for the first time. Babyish. I'm not listening til the whole album comes out and will give it at least 5 spins before posting an opinion.
prlgmnr
...that kind of idea
Kaura
Je suis ketchup
I don't know about the song but I'm really digging the production. Sounds really fresh compared to all the super produced djent bands. Which I love of course, but you kinda get used to it at a certain point that it gets kinda dull.
ChugThisBoy
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Oh man, Tool has difficult fan base..
About the new single: it sounds like Tool, I dig the atmosphere. But I think that Descending and Invincible are better material for singles.
About the new single: it sounds like Tool, I dig the atmosphere. But I think that Descending and Invincible are better material for singles.
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I listened to the entire song prior to voicing my opinion. Just tried to give it a second listen, bailed around 5 minutes in.
This isn't the first time Tool have opened a song with a simple, incredibly repetitious bit. The problem is it never moves beyond that, and when you think its going to, it doesn't.
Someone mentioned "Eulogy." Imagine if every musical line in the song was very slight variations of the behind-the-bridge clangy noises. Then every time it felt like the song was going to build to something, it went back to the clangy noise. For 10 minutes.
Maybe I'm babyish, but it definitely doesn't take close to an hour (5 listens to this) to recognize pretentious bullshit.
