13 years. We did it lads. It's over. It's here. And holy shit is it fucking good

it's good, just not "13 years good"
They better have recorded 4 quality new albums and are gonna drop them one by one over the next couple of years, because there are no excuses for 13 fucking years.

You know they have other shit going on right? People aren't obligated to stick to one undertaking for the rest of their lives.

This albums levels are so hot. I hate modern mastering - some of the tracks are fucking crackling at points due to how hard the compressed this shit.

Only Maynard has other shit going on, and that's only because the other 3 waste so much time.
It doesn't take nearly 2 years to write one song, even if you had a 9-5 day job.

same reason people here talk the same way

>Only Maynard has other shit going on
I'm not talking about projects in music. I'm talking about how they're human beings who have lives. Even if they sat around all day doing nothing, that's their choice. You're not entitled to their labor.

>they're lazy hacks because it's their right to be
and I'm suppose to respect this?

It's not laziness to not care as much about something you used to do.

13 years of waiting to hear the sound equivalent of 4 old men trying to fuck a doorknob. fuck my stupid ass life.

boring buttmetal

/thread

"spiral out y'all" holy cringe

>waaah i DESERVE a new tool album because it's all about me!!

Lateralus > Fear Inoculum > Aenima > 10k Days > Undertow

first couple times listening through, i thought the album was decent but underwhelming. after a few days of listening and really trying to get into each song, i gotta say its really good. nothing will top lateralus but these songs are all legit

Upvotes to the left, le good sir! I sure love Tool, don't you, kind stranger?

It's okay. Pretty much what I expected. Their sound is tired, the album is unnecessary, but they're good enough at what they do to make it a pleasant listen. 6.5/10.

2/10 album for me, Bros.
Danny Carey turned off his snare and doesn't use the hi-hat, the ladder bring a prominent part of tool (think of schism). Maynard doesn't scream or sing loudly so the songs never climax the way previous albums would, (finale of Vicarious or Aenima), the songs just pitter out. Alex hasn't developed his guitar skill at all, some of the tones on this album sound like they were recorded from a line 6, specifically the clean tones. There are clear re-used melodies from Schism, Jambi, and Wings for Marie. and finally all Danny Carey does now is play the toms like some African drummer.

It's definitely their worst album. Completely bland retread. Unnecessary.

What a disappointment

I genuinely hate line 6 amps. Haven't listened through the album yet, but so far I'm not in love. But desu, I didnt love lateralus or tool until a year after I first listened to that album. So I'll give this album another few listens. I do miss the Maynard vocal climaxes tho.

Love copy pasta

retard

>commie wants to force musicians to create music for them for no reason other than he wants it
You're not entitled to their labor idiot

I liked what I listened. It's just a natural follow-up from 10,000 Days. Like a long homogeneous song, with their main themes repeating like a mantra. The band itself adopted this meditative stance since Lateralus. I haven't anything to complain.

>Danny Carey turned off his snare and doesn't use the hi-hat
Is this b8 or have you never listened to Danny play before?

My favorite part of Tool is Maynard's vocal talent and I just don't hear it here

Ænima > Lateralus > Undertow > 10,000 Days > Fear Inoculum

My only complaint is a couple of the songs tend to go on a little longer than they probably should
7empest and Invincible could've ended maybe a couple minutes earlier than they did, but if that's all I have to complain about then oh well, it's still a fantastic album

Face it, Tool fans just want them to make 3 minute catchy chorus alt rock songs at this point.

Tool has never been about focusing on Maynard's voice. He has stated that himself like a thousand times.
He's an old man and still sounds like he did 20 years ago which is a fucking feat itself. Seeing these guys live is a trip because you can tell Maynard can still sing and isn't all after effects

This shit makes me feel bad about being broke and pirating the album
I swear I'll buy it when I have money!

What will Melon give it?

>no excuses for 13 fucking years.
Raising children, living their own lives, etc etc

Strong 6 at best
t. Someone who thinks the album is a strong 8

cringe

I'm 34. I've listened to all of the albums on the Yea Forums core list out there and I'm re-listening to FEAR INOCOLUM for the umpteenth time (realistically, I'd say I've listened to it at least 100 times) and I just have not found that many other albums to match it artistically. It is just so inspired throughout the entire thing. It bothers me that folks would write it off as "metal" or "hard rock" and only consider it good in those categories. I've found a LOT of "metal" and "hard rock" to be very subpar and many people in those bands let the loud volume account for what they lack in talent. TOOL is unlike any other band on the planet and their scarcity, limited material and mystery make them all the more appealing to a world that gets EVERYTHING IT WANTS RIGHT NOW (DAMNIT!). TOOL fans wait and wait for more material ... and the reason why is their existing material is so amazing - especially FEAR INOCOLUM.

I know what I am saying has been said a million times before, but it just seems like everytime I read about TOOL in a major publication they write them off as a fringe band. I know MJK does not give an F about all this ... I'm just sad they don't get the respect they deserve on those best of lists. The Yea Forums core list is filled with awesome stuff - no denying that - but FEAR INOCOLUM deserves to be on that list.

FI>AEnima=Lateralus>Undertow>10K Days

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Nice triples 6s

Is this new pasta?

Production is lifeless and boring. Guitar/bass tones sound like Guitar Center showroom floor 2001. Drummer didn't turn his snare on till like 20 mins in and wanked all over the toms. MJK is the only good thing about this band atm. This all seriously sounds like it was recorded in 1999.

I agree, Lateralus is their best

True it's prime 00s buttmetal

Take your (You)

Considering it's been posted in every Tool thread so far, yes

He'll listen to it two times tops. There are alot of albums he didn't really sit down long enough with to pass a real judgment so he tends to stick to the 6/7/8 ratings to stay safe.

they dont owe you anything, wtf? lol

Halfway through it right now. So far I only like Pneuma.

>13 years. We did it lads. It's over. It's here. And holy shit is it fucking good.
>Spiral out y'all.

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MJK isn't even a musician anymore he's a farmer lol feel blessed we got this at all

Easily the best album of 2019 and arguably this decade.

face it lads, Tool will never again hit that highwater mark of Aenima/Lateralus.

FI sounds like a bunch of b-sides and shit from the cutting room floor of 10000 Days recording sessions that was all glued together in Pro Tools or Fruity Loops. But now with less dynamics and more clipping!

meh/10

Tripe 6 for a strong 6 rating, it is prophesied

It's honestly like a half assed Lateralus. Even reusing certain elements from Lateralus.

kys

If this isn't a copypasta it is now

>face it lads, Tool will never again hit that highwater mark of Aenima/Lateralus.
even at their "old and washed up" point in life they're still better than 90% of musicians today so I'll be thankful they still made this album.
It will probably be their last but I still am enjoying it

the album is fine, but I expected more than just fine from Tool after this long. it's okay background music when one of these songs comes up randomly in iTunes, that's about the best I can say about it. nothing new to see here really

>Tool, arguably the greatest rock artists of the post-80s
>New album under fire for not being better than Tool

I haven't heard any clipping where do you hear clipping? The fact you mentioned fruity loops shows you don't know shit.

>Being so egotistical to think a band who has a extremely dedicated following cares about the respect of some random scrub on the internet

Lol

Yup, only Pneuma is good.

this piece of SHIT sounds worse than Death Magnetic

>new album under fire for not being better than Lateralus
FTFY
It's easily second to Lateralus though, and MAYBE Aenima's equal. It's a great album, but don't listen to me, I actually really liked 10,000 Days and Vicarious is one of my favorite songs of all time

He's also 55 years old and has at least 9000 other bands, still sounds good so we should be grateful. Thank you MJK

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You’re actually fucking retarded if you think like this

Opiate EP is better than this

Low quality bait

let's not say things we cant take back user

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This album slays you fucking plebs. Still not as good as Aenima tho.

If I had to rank their albums after this release.

1. Lateralus
2. 10,000 days
3. Undertow
4. Aenima
5. Fear Inoculum
6. Opiate

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all songs sound the same, they all have "the riff" from invincible for some reason and Maynard hardly sings, he's too old.

Imagine having taste this bad

I think "being stuck in a legal battle" is a pretty good excuse desu

>FI fag

Go listen to your "new" rehased shit

Scaruffi will give this album a 6/10

screencap it

Listen to anything pre 10,000 days, he used heavy implementation of hi hat and the snare drum with the snare on. He does neither in this album and it comes off as boring bongo shit.

You put 10,000 Days and Undertow above Aenima
You're not allowed to have an opinion on Tool after this gigantic transgression you fucking retard
Keep the new albums taste out of your mouth and go gargle bleach instead

>boring bongo shit
Seriously
Take your own advice and listen to anything pre 10,000 days and tell me Danny hasn't always done that
Hell half of the Lateralus album is him beating on his toms and it sounds fucking great

what about more time passing do you think = higher quality music, the only one at fault for that is fans hyping it up bigger and bigger. They are the same musicians as always regardless how much time elapses

this
the idiots actually thought they were working on this album for 13 years
they went on a hiatus(understandably considering the legal battle court fuckery) and FINALLY decided to start working on it within the last couple years or so
And I know they were working on part of it because I got to hear a small snippet of Descending back in 2016 when I saw them live in Tulsa

This album is pretty fucking dull. It definitely sounds like tool but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. At least with previous albums they had at least one or two good songs but this one just kinda seems like they needed money and the whole wait almost as long as possible for an album just makes it sell out that much quicker. It's also funny how all these streaming services have to officially pay royalties now and it just so happens TOOL is now on those platforms.

The atmospheric tones and all that shit are also pretty subpar. There is just nothing that stands out in this album. Lukewarm is a good word to use for this.

It depends on the "90% of musicians" you are talking about. Would I rather listen to this than anything on the radio? Obviously, but that doesn't mean that I would still enjoy it. Bands nowadays are doing things above and beyond what the scope of Tool is doing because of the early Tool albums that came before.

This is a stupid fucking post. Wouldn't you want a bands next album to surpass what they have done in the past?

How do you manage to be wrong about so many things in a single post?

it's not very much music for the amount of time they spent on it.
It's not even their fault, the bar was raised so high not just due to hype but being a rock or metal band in 2019 is almost laughed at by mainstream culture. If you're still writing that kind of music it's like you have something to prove. Tool more than anyone because there was already a high bar for them. There wasn't that level of scrutiny in 2006.

>Wouldn't you want a bands next album to surpass what they have done in the past?
Ideally yes, but taste is subjective and this almost never happens.
>Bands nowadays are doing things above and beyond what the scope of Tool is doing because of the early Tool albums that came before.

Citation really needed here

1. Aenima
2. Lateralus
3. Undertow
4. Fear Inoculum
5. Opiate
6. 10,000 Days

It's one of the best albums of this decade
Better than MBDTF
better than any kendrick album
Not as good as albums like Halcyon Digest, Carrie & Lowell
probably top 5 definetaly.

>Wouldn't you want a bands next album to surpass what they have done in the past
An ordinary band yeah. Wanting better Tool is like wanting a better filet mignon, I'm not a fucking princess.

>Aenima
edgy trash

You’re still posting so you haven’t gargled bleach yet
Come back when you do

>says the edgelord

Maynard is a child rapist. He has anally raped boys as young as 8 years old for sex magick rituals

>MBDTF
?

It's a step in the right direction and I really did enjoy it and honestly anything above a 7/10 is worth any kind of wait, especially this one. But I think their next effort is gonna be their true transcendent record.

This album is all the worst parts of 10k days (the long boring jams) for an entire album, similar to how 10k days was an entire album of lateralus' worst parts (disposition-triad)

Absolutely seething
Did getting your shit taste called out piss you off that much?

Just got my physical copy in the mail, the actual CD case doesn't have any writing on the front cover, only on the spine.

>claims seething while literally seething

sounds like yall just have zero patience. Go back to listening to hip hop, ADHDfag

Yeah this
>long boring jams
If you find any part of Tool's music boring, then you don't like them, it's that simple

If I had to rank the albums:

1) Lateralus
2) Aenima
3) Fear Inoculum
4) 10,000 Days
5) Undertow
6) Salival
7) Opiate

Fight me.

I have a secret to tell. Maynard forcibly stuck his Stinkfist my Third Eye. I waa drunk ans he was Sober, but that didn't stop him. He caused a painful Schism in my rectum becauses he really Jambi'd it up there. I shouldn't have eaten those cookies he baked. I went on a horrible Chocolate Chip Trip and was Rosetta Stoned

>hating Disposition/Reflection/Triad
Nigga what

That's what you get for eating cookies that came from a recipe literally called The Balls of Satan.

And he raped young girls on tour, their driver said he was a pig who only went for "VERY young girls"

no one wants old hags

They repeat the same rhythms too much. They used to be great at building and releasing tension but they repeat too much with no climax. Descending being the only proper climax. I miss the vocal climaxs as well.

based

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Maynard rapes 8 year old boys

No fighting necessary
You're objectively right albeit I'd put FI above or at least equal with Aenima

>FI that high

>They repeat the same rhythms too much
ahahaha it's time to stop posting
This is Tool we're talking about, they do the exact opposite of this

There are parts that sound similar but I compared to tracks from other albums and nothing has the same tempo and rhythm.

descending at 10 minutes has a very similar sound to reflection's beginning

Just because you play around with music theory doesn't mean it sounds good, i.e. most tool songs.

>Wanting better Tool is like wanting a better filet mignon, I'm not a fucking princess.
No but you are fucking retarded.

user, I. . .

Dude I can wait for music to get to the good parts it's just that there are no good parts on this album.

They repeat so much shit in this new album they take riffs from their older albums.

Oh and I have one more thing to say.

Ahem
FUCK TOOL
FUCK TOOL FANS
FUCK DANNY CAREY

Man, Tool is soooo fucking boring.
It's quite funny that a quantity over quality band like King Gizzard makes better prog than these hags.
Noone wants to listen to 2 minutes of power chords only in your 14 minute meme prog song you hacks. If you can't keep it interesting, don't extend the song time.

REHASHED TRASH!

Do you think Maynard is a nice guy who appreciates his fans?

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thank you for confirming what I said

This is only further proof that MJK is based.

glad I am not the only one to notice

>The Balls of Satan

literally the edgy kids that never grew up well into their 50s.

A Perfect Circle has put out better albums than this

LP6 wen?

>Spiral out y'all
This has to be some kind of false flagging or some shit to make Tool fans look bad

Unofficial Tool clones have put out albums better than IF. At least A Perfect Circle are actually good. Shame Keenan fucked up their latest album as well.

>Just because you play around with music theory doesn't mean it sounds good, i.e. most tool songs
Playing around with music theory is more than anything most musicians do so objectively wrong especially considering they do sound good
>repeat so much shit
CITATION NEEDED

2066

>reposted it still WITHOUT a hooker with a penis reference
user please...

The first two APC records are better than anything Tool has done except Aenima.

Good ranking honestly

Meh, check back in 15 years, maybe that'll be as good as Aenima

10000 Days and I still can't forget that rough Prison Sex. The Pot did nothing to numb the pain. I've been an Aenima each day after that to feel clean. But it's for nothing. I still can't stand to see my asshole's Reflection in the mirror.

How do you listen to an album 100 times the first day it’s released? It’s over an hour long, you autist.

it's copypasta combined with b8
you fell for it

My fav songs are Descending and Pneuma I think.

I want to like 7empest more, but at like, the 6/7 minute mark it gets tiring for me so far. I dunno why.

Band is on point, I kinda wish Maynard was more prominent in more of the songs, but it's fine for what it is. It seems like, instead of huge bounding vocals to end songs, the band is just going hard af in each one. Can't complain about that though.

>gets tiring for me
yeah some of the songs in the album kinda go on a little too long, but it's not that big a deal
>wish Maynard sang more
eh yes and no
He has stated time and time again that he's not the front man for the band and it's about "da music". At the same time, his voice is a huge draw in for people and one of the reasons they're so good. He's an old man and after seeing them live, I can safely say his voice hasn't gone yet. I feel like he's just trying to make it easier on him to perform this album the older he gets

what does he mean by this

Oh, for sure. I get that! Theres just a few spots in the songs you can kinda like, 'hear' where a good spot for a pre-chorus or bridge would fit in, but he doesnt do it.

Hes gotta have some 'rest songs' so he can perform for 2 hours straight.

Not even Sound Awake is better than any of Tool's albums. You're delusional.

After listening to previews of Descending for three years, hearing him sing in it sounds weird to me

The part where the vocals double up gets me, cause the live version dont have that lmao

I just love that part towards the end, with the solo and everything. Its fun af to play and jam out to. Totally get why the audience pops for it live all the time

First couple of APC albums are better than IF. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

The album is boring af and maynard mis-pronounces the word "relevant" as "revelant" in invincible i had to rewind it a cpl times I cant believe no one corrected him

Singers have been mispronouncing words for decades, this is nothing new

>STIR US FROM OUR
>WANTON SLUMBER

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but maynard james keenan, the most intelligent man in music, someone who knows what a FIBONACCI SPIRAL IS (dude math lmao) somehow fails to pronounce relevant properly on the latest intellectual heavyweight, 400 IQ album from the most brilliant band to ever exist, Tool? i cannot accept this. it's like a typo in Shakespeare or an inaccurate chord resolution in Bach

you sound like an intellectual

He's saying revenant, Maynard is never wrong.

maybe it's just not for you. I find it anything but boring. Yeah it's derivative of lateralus and 10k days, but in interesting ways. Besides not having concise and wild moments like their previous stuff, It still great. just move on to other shit you like and let us tool goblins have fun.

Yeah it’s pretty good. I’m more looking forward to the unadulterated cringe incoming. And there’s plenty in this thread already

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...6:20 in Invincible the word that this author and sophisticated winemaker is looking for is clearly"relevant" and he says "revelant" and its hilarious to me bc its soooo deeeeep that he cant even fucking pronounce words properly

Better than 10,000 days, worse than their Lateralus/Aenima/Undertow golden age. Its a damn good album, verging on great. Of course theres a bunch of negative autists out there who were always going to nitpick and shit on it regardless of how it turned out.

cringe

You sound autistic
My first time listening to H. when I was little shit eating kid I thought Maynard was saying "my puppy fully begs me" and I thought that was the lyric for years
It took me over a decade to realize he was saying "my blood before me begs me"
People say and hear things differently

6/7/8 range is a pretty wide range, man
you're just keeping your guess wide so you can act smug when you're right

on another note, i'm guessing he'll keep it somewhere between 1 and 9

Dilate

lol he clearly says relevant. Wash your ears.

are the plebbitors flooding the board to talk about tool really this bad at understanding sarcasm?

Revellent - causing revulsion

>muh sarcasm

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They're paid shills, probably some Indian in a cubicle

>struggling to remain revellent
this makes no fucking sense, user

>he thinks people get paid to come here and shitpost about music
Wew lad, it's time to go outside

>fibonacci spiral meme
>dude math lmao
>400 IQ
>consistently calling maynard and tool the most brilliant, etc.
these are almost obnoxiously over the top signs the post was sarcastic, user. but i guess reading comprehension isn't your strong suit if you're listening to a man who can't pronounce "relevant" for your intellectual nourishment

@6:20 he says it wrong like a fucking dumdum and you've all been tricked into thinking this guy was next level intelligent for decades

It's missing angsty Maynard AAAAAAAHHHHHHHing everywhere and the grittiness from the guitars, even 10,000 days production felt more organic. It still fucking good shit though. if your pee pee doesnt become the Big dongus witht he feedback before the main riff in Pneuma starts, you need Jesus in your life.

>obnoxiously over the top
Yeah that's the point
even if it was sarcasm, you still came off looking like a retard
keep fixating on how he said relevant, I'm sure you're somehow the 'intellectual" here

what link does descending have to reflection? i still need to read the lyrics for the new album and cant understand shit when i hear it (english isnt my first language)
it seems deliberate the sound they start use at 9:40 in descending, it is specific and exactly what is in reflection. (and the grudge i think too) it is purposeful. i think maybe i want to hear reflection followed by or before descending and see how they fit together, and are they about the same thing conceptually??

no. he clearly says relevant, are you deaf?

Why wouldn't they?
>completely deniable
>"""native advertising""" / """viral marketing"""
>almost free (pay an indian $5 and he'll make a hundred posts)
You're a fucking idiot if you run a marketing department and don't shill on Yea Forums. It's like, the fourth largest English language forum; has a significant impact on internet culture, and is completely unmoderated (unless you hurt a janny's feefees)

There is no risk, almost no cost, and thousand of ad views in the all important "native / viral advertising" context.

It's extremely obvious team Tool has a spam campaign for this album

you should hear the way he says "psychopathy"

I'm guessing nothing. It's a synth. they use synth in many of their songs, and recylce and rearrange riffs as well.

paranoid as fuck.

Dude seriously, it's a fucking Tool album
They don't give a shit about shilling their music here. Their fans will shill for them, and do it for free
You need to take a break and get off of Yea Forums

Are u listening to the leak or the CD? Amazon guy hasn't gotten here yet. If he mispronounced it on purpose only on the leak and they were behind it all along to see who "noticed"...now that would be good...

I have a secret to tell. Maynard forcibly stuck his Stinkfist my Third Eye. I waa drunk ans he was Sober, but that didn't stop him. He caused a painful Schism in my rectum becauses he really Jambi'd it up there. I shouldn't have eaten those cookies he baked. I went on a horrible Chocolate Chip Trip and was Rosetta Stoned

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Lol pathetic shills, you're not fooling anyone

>streaming everywhere

do it yourself faggot.

>I went on a horrible Chocolate Chip Trip
expanded my smile

I don't use streaming services so that is irrevelant.

Bruh moment

it's on youtube.

I wish I got paid. Wanna give me money?

youtu.be/hxsld16TjSU?t=380
"Yanny" or "Laurel"?

Meh, it’s better than okay anyway.

>talking shit about Karnivool and/or Sound Awake

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Relevant clear as your gaping wound.

Sounds like you had some intense prison sex. Really tore you right in two. Really pushedit. Really acted like a hooker with a penis. Shouldnt have used all those opiates.

If you think mu is enough of a consumer base to be worth spending time and money advertising specifically towards, youre a retard. God forbid people like stuff you dont. Doesnt make it a conspiracy.

>Meanwhile, Carey confirmed in the interview that the release and promotional cycle for “Fear Inoculum” will complete their joint contract with Volcano Entertainment, leaving the band as free agents going forward.
>Given their previous music industry struggles, that may be a blessing for any potential new music moving forward. As he’s expressed in other recent interviews, Carey relayed that he hopes another Tool album will surface sooner rather than later:

>“My hope is we get in and knock out another record. We have tons of riffs and jams and things. It’s not going to take 12 years, or if it does, I’ll probably be so old I can’t pick up my sticks any more!”

based danny is going to save the 2020s

He seemed pretty relateable on the JRE

What's with the 10,000 days hate? I really like the album. I think that The Pot, Jambi, Wings, and Rosetta Stoned are all exceptionally good songs.

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Looking forward to listening to it in 2045

WHOA DUDE IM TOTALLY SPIRALING OUT DUUUUUDE LIKE LEARN TO SWIM LEARN TO SWIM LEARN TO SWIM
I KNOW THE PIECES FIT!!!! CAUSE I WATCHED THE PIECES FIT!!!!!! SPIRAL OUUUUUUUTTTTTT YA'LL

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contrarians is the reason

Are you under the impression they spent 13 years in the studio working on the album consistently? They're successful enough now that they don't even need to continue the band. They're doing it purely for the enjoyment and I'm glad they didn't force the album to come together faster than it did.

I like all those and Vicarious & Right In Two a lot also. Honestly I think it's an underrated album, maybe better than Lateralus the more I really think about it.

What's the all the intolerance? Are you sure you're sober? Your post sounded like a eulogy dude, it's making me sweat. My body temp went up by 4°. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your disposition here, but I'm not the patient type.

it's obviously relevant

how fucking autistic is this board

Im only a casual Tool fan and this was exactly my impression of the album. LAZY shit.

It was over after 10000 Days

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