New Tool record end of year?

But most tool songs have that formula. And sometime it's great and sometimes it's not with the same formula.

Adam Jones is certainly the weakest member of the band at this point, but he's also very key to their sound. always hoped the other guys would rub off on him and he'd step up his game....but nope. very obvious that's not going to happen. that initial guitar motif is bland af. he just does what he does and that's that. at least Maynard feels like he's not phoning this one in (as he has at times over the last couple albums)....tbh the whole band except for Maynard, at least on this track, seems like they're very much stuck into their 'sound' 

listening again (not on headphones)....very much feels like a live version of a track, basically...just has more air to breath and isn't as tight/trim as most studio rock bands (Tool definitely among them usually) try to get their tracks before recording them. they can sorta do whatever the hell they want now tho so who knows if there was any producer stepping in going 'okay guys, do we really need a drum solo 3 minutes into the track?' 

New Tool is trending #2 on youtube currently, and #1 is the Joe Rogan podcast with Bernie Sanders. First time I've seen YT trend  so highly anything I'm interested in.

  On 8/8/2019 at 2:12 AM, Brisbot said:

Listened to Lateralus for the first time in a long time right after the track and omg I forgot how good this one was.

This is the best Tool album yes

I meant the song, but the album is considered the best by 90% of people who have heard them all ,yeah. Well That or Undertow. But I'm not really a fan of Undertow.

Nah.. their best is clearly Aenima.

  On 8/8/2019 at 10:36 AM, kirm said:

Nah.. their best is clearly Aenima.

Great tracks on there but too long, way too much juvenile studenty filler. Hash brown recipe in German I'm looking at you.

Keine Eier?!? 

  On 8/8/2019 at 10:38 AM, hello spiral said:

Great tracks on there but too long, way too much juvenile studenty filler. Hash brown recipe in German I'm looking at you.

Yeah cause there's none of that wankery on Lateralus.. Faaip De Oiad I'm looking at you!

Also lyrically find parabol/parabola Tool at maximum cringe.

It is still an amazing album but prefer Aenima my self.

Aenima>Undertow>Lateralus=10KD checking in.

2000s stuff is GREAT, but the more alt 90s stuff is where's it really at for me

I think that new track sounds enjoyable for what it is. meanders a bit much in the second half. I forgot how much I don't vibe with Maynard's voice generally, the cleanness of it has always sleazed at me like a lounge singer's voice.

anyway I had no expectations for this because I've never been a Tool megafan and only really paid attention around the Lateralus days. I'm more into the bands that came both before and after them.

edit: some fucking cringy-ass comments on the video

edit edit: kinda feels like this would be good music to enjoy in company or at a party, if not engaging enough for continued private obsession.

  On 8/8/2019 at 10:38 AM, hello spiral said:

Great tracks on there but too long, way too much juvenile studenty filler. Hash brown recipe in German I'm looking at you.

Every single real track on Aenima is a total banger. Just skip the filler tracks and you have a 60+ minute album of pure gold. Lateralus... Ehhh I don't think The Patient is great, Schism isn't on par with anything from Aenima, even Parabola runs out of steam in the second half. There just isn't as much good music on there. 

Yeah, Aenima is excellent start to finish, jokey tracks included.  Lateralus is about 75% excellent up to and including the song Lateralus, and that's where the album should have ended.

  On 8/9/2019 at 12:05 AM, Poimandres said:

Every single real track on Aenima is a total banger. Just skip the filler tracks and you have a 60+ minute album of pure gold. Lateralus... Ehhh I don't think The Patient is great, Schism isn't on par with anything from Aenima, even Parabola runs out of steam in the second half. There just isn't as much good music on there. 

RIP to this thread. It was a fun 7 years.

  On 8/26/2019 at 3:52 PM, jules said:

RIP to this thread. It was a fun 7 years.

But when's the next one coming out?

  On 8/27/2019 at 12:27 AM, sidewinder said:

But when's the next one coming out?

watch them dump a new album out a year later

In case you want to get upset:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tool-fear-inoculum/

  On 9/6/2019 at 6:52 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

In case you want to get upset:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tool-fear-inoculum/

lol I saw that. That’s probably the first number 1 album they’ve shredded since they started selling music for condé nast. 

But hey, they think it’s 3x better than Lateralus!

i just read that pitchfork lateralus review, what in the fuck is going on there

  On 9/6/2019 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

i just read that pitchfork lateralus review, what in the fuck is going on there

 

 

yeah, that review has not aged well at all, they should probably consider deleting that. I think that was back when they were trying to be funny like the old VICE.

Weird how I keep reading reviews saying how overcomplicated and difficult these tunes are to get into. On the contrary I think these have been easy peasy to get into. Granted 10 minute plus tracks do not phase me at all, and my Sonic Magic Eye is battle hardened from listening and deciphering AE albums, Fear Inoculum was about as easy to get into as Abbey Road. Obviously these reviewers are pussycats!

The hate from Pitchfork seems really childish. I don't know anything about all those things they criticize the band for, I've never looked further than the music, all that extra curricular nonsense doesn't interest me. I guess Ignorance is bliss!

I've been trying to listen to this, can anyone detail what I'm supposed to be hearing if not "Tool Does Meandering Guided Meditation on Angst"? It sounds like an approach to one idea moves into something related, but different, and no coda to anything recognizable for 10 minutes at a time and I get lost.