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DudePalMan
I don't understand why people crap on this record. Take away the interludes, and it's not worse than 10,000 Days
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letsoulfly
now after i gave it another try, i agree. maybe the people (like me) were just disillusioned by too much waiting time in between and during the years they (like me) got in touch with great output of many other bands. at start tool was an outstanding inspiration and surreal myth for me. therefore tool got higher standards than others. but now i have just grown up... jm2c
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RussianMeloman
Oddly enough, although this album doesn't sound as conceptualy solid and breakthrough as the previous ones, this is only album i want to like every song.
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alpengeist1919
Title track is boring as hell but the rest is quality. Wouldn't put it on the same level as the previous few albums but it's good
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TheDarkCosmos
kinda the consequence of waiting over a decade to release new music… the hype just causes abnormally high expectations which are bound to be let down.
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BesiBesiBesi
idk man, for me...all tool albums are their best albums. Theyre all just different chapters of life!
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cloudskater
Yeah it's a grower for sure, and was my true introduction to the band. I had heard Undertow and Lateralus beforehand, but only really got into them when the hype for this one rose, thus this was the first one I really sunk my teeth into. Really glad I did, I love all 11 tracks (yes, I count Recusant Ad Infinitum).
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AlexTheNothing
Something to do with the single coming out first and having the same title. Should have been fixed by now though >:(
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marcos_gaspar
After all that time it is still purely cathartic. The progression of the songs verges on perfection. I feel the truth of every single chord. So complex yet so engaging. Fucking monumental.
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SwingBreed
Still having trouble finding any soul in this album whatsoever. It's still just sounds like lifeless technical proficiency to me.
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Sobakus
I've heard quite a bit of annoying clipping in my metal listening career, but this is the first time in my life I've stopped listening to an album because of how godawful disgusting it was. I've been able to stand albums recorded in a shed (scandinavian metal) better because there the shit quality is par for the course and year ears adapt to filter it out. Here you have a gourmet dish (great dynamics) served with a spoonfull of sand. To the godawful clipping is added a horrible tape-like hiss which is audible clear as fuck at the beginning of Pneuma, as well as in every quitet passage with the drum track present - with perfect silence in drumless passages by contrast, such as in the filler tracks If you're reading this wondering what am I even talking about because you hear no hiss or clipping, you've been blessed with turd ears that can stand what's possibly the worst recording job of the decade. You can blissfully sell all the expensive audio equipment you have for some 5$ earbuds
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Sobakus
Went back and turned on 10000 Days. It's precisely the same thing there, with the very same tape hiss on the drum track and crackling clipping, especially audible during tom blasts. Both in combination can clearly be heard in the intro to Jambi. I'm guessing that album's guitar levels are so overdriven in general that the clipping mixes in with the general guitar distortion most of the time - as well as being covered by the vocals. In contrast, FI has way more sparse guitars which sound cleaner, ditto for the vocals. And so the otherwise beautiful drumming gets ruined, because all of the clipping and noise happens only when the drums blast - you wish they never did.
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SwingBreed
yeah Joe Barresi, who recorded both those albums, is way too high-end centric, that annoying metallic "shing" on everything. He did it too on Wavering Radiant, the Isis album he engineered. I'm more into Sylvia Massey's approach. She brought out the low-end heaviness that gives Tool their necessary oomph and is closer to their live sound.
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daanvissers
Damn that’s crazy. Makes me appreciate the fact I’m being protected by my ear wax and 320kbps streaming so I actually get to enjoy music lmao
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Callagher
I just can't get into it. I've been listening to this album for the past few weeks and imho it's average at best. I love the first part of Culling Voices (before the heavy part that sounds like it was written by my high 15 year old self... not only is that riff bland and unfitting, they drag it for 3 fucking minutes, it's almost insulting), I kind of liked Fear Inoculum and I tolerated the rest. I feel like I didn't have any expectations whatsoever but then again here I am writing this review so I guess I'm a little bit disappointed.
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DaddyRamaSenpai
Overhated and better than 10.000 Days. This album doesn't have a stinker like Viginti Tres or the useless interludes.
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DaddyRamaSenpai
I actually forgot FI had interludes since I made a playlist without them lmao. Both albums are guility of that then.
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irishcraft
10000 Days > Fear Inoculum > Lateralus > AEnima > Opiate > Undertow. Yes overhated but 10000 is still their best imo
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mayathepsychiic
thing about tool is every album is good, but they all have different strong points. that makes them really difficult to rank imo, if i had to i'd probably go with fear inoculum > lateralus > aenima > 10,000 days > opiate > undertow, but honestly i wouldn't disagree with any other ranking.
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AEnimia
Was a huge Tool fan way back when. With time, I discovered many much more interesting and entertaining bands and artists. When this album was announced, my reaction was a resounding 'ewwww, why bother?'. I still haven't bothered to give this a fair listen I admit. Perhaps in 13 years time I'll get around to it. Ænema and Lateralus are still phenomenal. But Tool is now irrelevant to music as a whole and certainly to me. And yes, I know, you don't care. No one does. I know. I just had to get that out.
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emptycookiejar1
New album is definitely uninspired and bland, unfortunately. I wouldn't say I "grew out of" Tool, but their music defines a certain era of my youth and I eventually moved on. Still love the band and their music can give me goosebumps in the right frame of mind, but they just aren't as interesting anymore.
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Snooz
I guess this is where I'll too put one of my few negative comments about a band in last.fm. Tool is still in my top 3 I guess, but this album is the first that shows signs of stagnation, re-use and because of the high standards and expectations; actually disappoints. This is after nearing 3 years of giving the album lots of chances. I was skeptical of 10k too, but it is solid now. When I cannot unhear or even confuse a riff or segment from earlier songs and the lyrics sound shallow as an edgy teen on reddit, then it just plain disappoints me.
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mayathepsychiic
People are way too harsh on this album. I think it's fantastic, easily my second favourite Tool album behind Lateralus, and my favourite album of 2019 by far.
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