Tool - Fear Inoculum ALBUM REVIEW 

Jonah Hernandez LOLLL

This might be the best comment we possibly could have gotten. Thank you for your work.

I am fr learning about the Fibonacci sequence atm wow great comment 😭

Perfect

"This. Is. Not a. Compelling. New project from Tool. Lacks ambition and fresh ideas. Waited 13 years. For THIS shit?"

doomed...

I expected a 6. But then he drops this.

I expected worse than a strong 4 when I saw the red flannel tbh

Yep. It was overjoyed

TOOL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY CANCELLED!

lol

lmao

This is the best comment here, omg ! I think Fantano really listened to the record until, accentally, he switched to his ringtone library.

why is this the top fucking comment

I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣

lmao.

Typical Tool fan 🙄🤣💀

that’s what I was thinking

I was going to post this but saw that you already commented. Bamboozled again!

🤣 oh shit hahHahh

Ra Gonk he’s wiping tears of joy

He better enjoy it otherwise I’m gonna call the FBI.

He's sobbing from the euphoric overload just give him a second

My heart broke. But then I realized he's just a melon

@@drewp.weiner5708 We know you're a real Tool fan when you reference the 'hidden' track from Salival, *Maynard's Dick*, sliding "a mile 6 inches at a time". Thumbs up!

Welcome to 1 person music reviews where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

rolling stones gave facelift by AiC a 3/5 everyone gives shit reviews. but yea 1.9 for lateralus is a crime.

cosmic oof

1.9 out of a scale of 2...seems about right

Yea but people actually care to hear Melon Heads opinions unlike Pitchfork. But homie is wrong. Just like pitchfork was. But it's his opinion. His channel. So idc.

Because he's a tool

Pneuma is literally like my top 3 tool songs, easy

My favorite on the Album!

@Riley D you did not just diss on 7empest bro

@@bungersinyourarea 7empest was the only bad song on that album. Didn't even sound like tool imo it sounded way too modern and had too much fx and overproduced

yes

PeZetOs fear inoculum is absolutely amazing

CHILD WAKE UP CHILD RELEASE THE LIGHT WAKE UP NOW CHILD

Struggling to remain revelant.. So apt for this critic

A tempest must be just like that

good one

Lmao!

Yes!

my heart playing in 90/32 listening to this review

Why cause some dickhead thinks that people will care about a rating that he and only himself made the criteria for....

entire lateralus, all main songs on ænima, and a lot of songs from 10000 days and undertow idk most of their discography is better than this song, even some songs from this album like the title track lol

@@minutemenisgre1 Although Pneuma is one of my favorites among Lateralus, Vicarious, invincible, descending (All at the moment) i tend to switch favorites all the time. Right now i am All about the vibe and Melody in songs i suppose

@@MrMikkelcool66 yeah lateralus and vicarious are great tracks. even though i don't really like this album anymore, i have to say im quite happy people have their own opinions and don't create /mu/ charts that look like this guy's top 50 of the year lol

How did people like the title track it's actually sleep-inducing

Danny’s solo drove the breath from my body, on the aptly named Pneuma.

I agree 👍 great album but by far the worse interludes not that they are ever great but some go really good with the following track on past albums.

Try listening to The Witness by Adam Jones and Danny Carey between Culling Voices and 7empest. Would've been perfect interlude

What isnt polarizing anymore?

Yes! 'the chugging in Invincible'... Pure gold!

I sat down and listened to the full album in a crowd train station (Munich), in the most crowded hour. Watching the busy world while being a still point with Tool in the ear, I realized that actually you need to have a certain mood/ environment to capture the meaning of some parts of the album. This album is extremely deep, but in another dimension. It asks us to explore, reflect. As MJK said, these songs are not Jingles, the album is an art like a movie. Maybe we should try listening to them in different moods and locations. And we might need few yards to fully digest it.

You shoulda known by his red flannel

Aetheri I think Tool got caught up in their own hype. The title song doesn’t even have a radio edit, just 8 minutes of insufferable twangs that sounds a lot like their old stuff if it were composed by a talentless retard. As for the lyrics, it’s like they had a computer randomly pick words out of “The Fart Sniffer’s Dictionary for Deep & Complex Angsty Teenagers.” Their old stuff is great & all, but this? I wasn’t even hyped for their next album & I was horribly let down.

Chore Boy I was hyped up especially since I am subbed to r/ToolBand but FI was a snooze fest. I listened to the album for like a week and couldn’t stay interested in it. It did not pull me like all their other releases. Somehow I am more hyped about DIIV’s new album and have been more engaged with it than FI.

How do you expect a work of art to be appreciated when you listen to music like a jew tied to a pole being force fed sludge until he dies ? Needleboy is the jew, RU-vid is the pole, and uploading music reviews for kids ages like 13-21 to watch and agree with is the force fed sludge. Kids See Ghosts is a rap album about dmt and open mindedness so Anthony can get that message across through the most basic form of music but god forbid someone with that same idea puts it on a much much larger scale and all he has to say is "I just dont think they deliver like they used to" Fuck you id like to see what cringy music anthony could make if he even tried.

Oxi Dovahklean Ironic you call his audience kids/immature just to make a child’s argument. Whenever somebody gives the ol’ “you try and do better then!” to a critic, they’ve lost the argument. We get it, your mad & disagree w/ Anthony. One doesn’t have to be able to make music to have an informed opinion on its quality. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard & I follow politics ffs. Also, what do Jews have to do with anything? Like, I’m not adverse to racial humor at all, but... what? Also, are you sure his biggest demographic is 13-21? Maybe things have changed, but I never knew any kids that gave a single fuck what any critic said about ANYTHING when I was younger. They only cared whether they or their friends liked it & if they did, they usually were in it 100%, in that they’d agree with anyone giving it good reviews & shit on anyone giving it bad reviews. Basic fanboyism.

He looked genuinely pained at the beginning. He knew what would happen.

Thats like calling tool album bad without listening to it and watching only this review.

LoL

"see you down in Arizona Bay!!!!"

Tool about to release a Melon diss-track in 7 different time signatures.

Bruno Silva 10th notes is prog af

That’s not... you can’t... they’d probably do it.

Release date for the single is set for sometime in November of 2025.

@@vshazam They'll release it in 10,000 Days

Well played

Unfortunately for y’all it’s 13 years too late.

This album is so hyped we HAVE to love it

Funny because a lot of the people I see praising this album are choosing to love it because of the hype regardless of what it sounds like

Tool? More like Fool. They need to make music like Sum 41 with REAL metrl musc 😤😤😤😎🤘🏿🧐🔌

Invincible is amazing

Hard agree

It’s their laziest album by far. Bottom of the barrel.

7empest

how does that makes sense, the mixing is beyond anything they've ever done before @@Heliosphan33

I mean, that's the whole point of the band. "maynard is just a instrument" cause that's literally their intention. That's why they called themselves tool. Every instrument (voice included) is a tool on the same level as the other instruments. I can see how that can absolutely turn off some listeners tho, it's not for everyone. I personally adore them

@@iantheehee9153 i agree. But in my opinion, on their previous albums, they did a very good job highlighting every member equally. In this release Maynard is not an equal part. His vocals are a distant afterthought.

​@@iantheehee9153thought it's because they're all tools

@@TallonChis vocals aren’t an afterthought. That’s what brings it all together and really elevates it.

@Freddie faulig Same, i agree Freddie. And to OP, you don't have to change your music taste based on the fact that you don't like one album, that's absurd and stupid. Personally, I cannot stand his singing rhythm and lyrically, it's pretty terrible compared to what we're all used to. It's clear that the band wrote the music separately and Maynard just waited until it was done and wrote lyrics over it. The music doesn't accommodate his verses and the lyrics at all. Contextually, It lacks lyrical cohesion and amounts to the preachy, cheaply philosphized, boring ramblings of a Maynard with nothing left to really say. And vocally, he's not in the same stratosphere of projection or conviction at all. It isn't even close. The rest is all as Tool as you'd like, if rather droning and boring in it's attempts to impress. Musicianship is 7/10. everyone else hasn't lost a step insofar as their proficiency to play. There was just nothing all that inventive or impressive about much of it. Maynard is the weak link and needs to hang it up. He can get away with his subpar crap when he's writing for Puscifer, but it crashes and burns miserably under the Tool banner. This is not an album I'll ever be buying and I've bought all Tool albums to date and was a teenager and in love with Tool when they emerged with Undertow in 1993. I'm not mad at them at all. For their age, their musicianship is still impressive compared to alot of bands out there. But at some point, every band loses their mojo and just doesn't have anything profound to say anymore. This album is the equivalent of Chuck Liddell pushing 50 and coming out of retirement. Steps into the octagon. Still looks big. Still has that mohawk. Still looks mean and tough. Gets knocked out cold because he's too old and way past his prime. Hang up the gloves, Maynard. You're just milking it because you know all these gullible lemmings will spend the money. As a side note, anyone who thinks this is as good as Tool ever was doesn't have a grasp on the intricacies of eloquent writing, musicianship and their respective implementation. These people are devoid of credibility on the topic. A Tool album like this will still appeal to the mindless simpletons holding up devil horns with no semblance of depth or the capacity for nuanced, subjective thought. Once, Maynard's writing was a bastion for critical thinking that railed against the sheepery of mainstream drones. Now, his fans are just exactly that. Blind masses, like wide eyed and oblivious lemmings who refuse to accept the reality.

That's probably only mentally 9 yo did

I actually like the album. The thing is that I use it when I want to meditate or take a nap. Maybe when I take a walk. Its pretty good tho. Not their best, but it works.

Joshua Jones They don’t need to understand the intricacies of eloquent writing, musicianship and there respective implementation. This album has no soul its lifeless any moron could figure out this album sucks. If anything I think the opposite is true and people who like the album like it purely for the bands chops and don’t realize the compositions aren’t really working there just listening to there respective instruments. The same goes for the production the average joe would say this albums production sucks the guitar is too clean Maynard vocals are too low and the drums are muted to the point where its hard to tell a tom from a kick-drum but alot of engineers are praising the production saying its cutting edge sounding so unique and fresh its clear and sounds so tight! They can’t differentiate between tasteful production and production that sounds very professional but isn’t good.

@@alexrinaldi3257 Quit talking like a politician. You say lifeless when you just mean boring. And boring only because you didnt listen to Tool for the experience, you simply 'dug' a few of their heavy songs, which by the way most fans agree are the most forgettable. The layers in these songs are fantastic, and further show just how deep and brilliantly psychedelic they can get. Go listen to A Perfect Circle that's clearly more up your alley, your criticism is weak.

Also Lulu

LAW Actually glad you said that. Perfect comparison.

Is there something wrong with that?

Significantly higher.

Lotte Yanson Honestly, I’ve lost all respect for him. Screw this four-eyed, melon headed, creepy uncle lookin, not so best teeth in the game fuckwit!

agreed! and his review of it aged like fine milk

…that’s been dumped in a compost pile

Nope. It's mediocre. Way worse than 10000 days, lateralis and anima

@@canismajoris6733 at least spell the other album names right🤦‍♂️

No matter how much you try to convince yourself this album is good, it's not. It's terrible, if this was their first album, they never would have gained traction

Yeah that's nuts, APC committed a straight up crime. From the visuals to everything else it was painful and surprisingly torturous to listen to, I still shudder every time I see the cover.

SIXTH HIGHEST SCORE THIS DECADE HIGHEST SCORE FOR A WOMAN THIS DECADE HIGHEST SCORE SINCE 2014 PERIOD

P4k stinky tho

I know you're joking but Pitchfork is even worse than Anthony

Anthony Fucking Fantano

peachy she deserves it honestly. Janelle’s ArchAndroid deserves a similar score tho.

Is this what we have become? What is 🍈 real influence in the music industry?

@@hikeran1994 he was being sarcastic you tool *pun intended*

🤣

XD XD

Ikr? XD

That’s a great take. For a woman.

@@canadariots1139 Fuck off

@@canadariots1139 weirdo

what an original take

@@canadariots1139 lmao

Took 3 years for me to like it

its still dog shit

good album, but i never play a song on it when i play tool songs.

Agree with your assessment of the album. It is such a grower and I feel out of all Tools albums it has the best "flow" through it and it is perfect for long car journeys or listening to when I have a long boring job to do at home. Seeing them perform many of the songs live also made me appreciate just how technically brilliant the songs are.

Yeah exact same for me actually. I used to think it was lame but would put it on at work in my headphones and it grew on me. idk it’s like the perfect background music I think

He's talking facts! I've been a tool fan for a long time and I completely agree with that man!

Everyone hates him

@Sefton Cookie i smell a superiority complex *sniff sniff*

Werberjerbins a good amount of people that listen to rock/metal and the likes are pretentious

Real rool fans don't hate

*WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES STAY BACK* -andy warski

This is my worst nightmare

*7k 😈

tool sucks and is the most overrated band ever who the fuck wants to listen to fucking 10 minute intros and 15 minute songs lmao only nerds like that shit

@@KCgrunge You have no idea what you're talking about...

almost everything tool does is an acquired taste. people are too unfair on this album

Agreed. They rhythms are esoteric and offsetting but after the first few listens it grows on you. Three years later, it sounds better than it did when I first heard it. I wonder what listeners will think about it a decade from now.

@Laughlin Exactly! Same for me! Nowadays my opinion is: it's equally good as their other albums, and i love it as much as their other albums! If it's one of my fav records ever, I don't know, cause like I said I love it as much as their other records

I would have given this album a 4 first time tbh but after probably around 20 listens it is definitely a 10/10

@@lukesteiner8934 yeah I just finished a run listening to it. This one definitely grows on you.

Same.

Vicente Briceño lmao

fucking lol

Lol, tool fanboy in its natural crying state.

Lol

Man the people in the replies calling this person a Tool fan boy, first time on melon’s channel?

chopin?

@@yes-fq6jd You must have me mistaken for my dear friend Franz.

I feel like I've disliked it more after time. Every song is a plagiarism of the last one. They all have the exact same structure and shitty, long interludes. Danny plays the same tom & bass rhythm the whole album and the guitar is the same note over and over again. The best song from this album was the 4 minute version of descending they released in 2017.

You are so delusional

Bruh. It was released TWO years ago

@Alix Which user were you commenting toward?

@@bo-bx5hn LOL good one

ikr lmao

Same with his “The Violent Sleep of Reason” review

This is an S tier album, and will age as the magnum opus of tool thus far.

@@malarchy77 lmao

@@malarchy77 lmao what? This is Tool at their more derivative and self-indulgent. NOTHING they do again will top Lateralus, or even Aenima, certainly not this fucking boring piece of shit

Lain Lover lol

Heard it's rockin'!

Present day

Funny and original!

Great opinion! I love you lain

Underratedthony Commentano

Good one.

I spat my coffee.

The real MJK would have given it a 2/10! Love this album though! Keeps getting better and better!

Lmaooooo

Nah, this album is still a lazy generic version of much better music.

@@blackspine343 bruh, 10 minute songs with polyrithm and much more complex and beautiful technical mastery, with incredible mixing, you don't know what is generic and lazy

Polyrhythms good! 4/4 bad! GENIUS

@@LaVerdad65 never said 4/4 is bad, I said that what Tool does is not lazy at all

IVANdtk It’s lazy composition. Metal riffs and odd time arpeggios aren’t anything new to Tool, but in this album they really lack focus and direction and depth and nuance. It’s a lazy album. Danny Caret said they rushed it and I honestly dont think he was kidding

It’s still a good song though.

Master of Disguise Yeah, it definitely doesn’t get the credit it deserves.

I’ll give Culling Voices a few more listens, but it didn’t stand out for me

Culling Voices hits different that’s why

Intension

Samael Me too. 😂

This is the first time I’ve gotten a comment liked, let alone 200 of them

Tmljaw I would’ve given it a six

I haven't even listened to Tool before but we were talking about this album coming out in my Audio Recording class earlier today and as soon as I saw the thumbnail I thought "oh no"

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it took 13 years for a band who is as revolutionary as, say, Black Sabbath was in the sense of creating the entire metal genre. by that i mean Tool revolutionized the idea of taking progressive rock and putting enough distortion on it that you could conceivably call it metal. i think the album is great. for the standards of mainstream music. for Tool? it's alright. the production work on maynard's vocals is at its worst here, for sure. that's one thing i would say even 10KD had going for it.

look at his face when he gives it a 4/10

this is coming from a guy whose favorite band has been tool for over 20 years.

William Alarie Idk what you’re on his vocals are more crisp and calculated than ever. He’s just old and can’t scream for 35 seconds straight anymore. People have unrealistic standards for aging vocalists.

Nah, he isn't

WHAT. YOU. SEE. INOCULATED

@@javigd96BLESS THIS IMMUNITY

DangoDjango 11/tenpest

@@JwOhEight i thought my comment was bad but you're on a whole new level well played

Third eye opening

?????

Honestly, didn't think about this, but it's the correct answer

But everybody liked the other ones.

Pneuma makes up for every other song in the album

Man, I'd hate to see you with a Pink Floyd album lol...there is no way the songs are too long. Patience is a lost art for sure

@@kmsharley75 long songs are good if they have enough substance and variation. The songs this album don't, they all roughly start the same and build till about 5 mins in when some actual oomf comes in, then after that it just slowly dies

​@@kmsharley75 The length of Tool's songs aren't the issue, it's the fact that they follow a predictable pattern and lack energy. Bands such as BTBAM are much better at creating long songs which are interesting to listen to.

The mix is also very boring. Super dry and unexciting.

@@FendergodGaming Y'all are speaking a foreign language to me. There is nothing bland,boring, or lacking substance to me, with this album. In fact,this is my favorite Tool release,the deepest,most exciting,and climactic,imo. And I've been a fan since 1993. Opiate and Undertow. Crazy how people are different, to each their own.

Lmao

@@Retexid You’ve been hanging out in this comment section for months now dude, get a life

@@jimbo8581 this is where the cool kids hang, bro chillax or gtfo

Underrated

In my new LP Not good rating then came to be Reaching out to me Gets a three *groovy base comes in*

A light 6? No, below. And a 4 I imagine...

Felsbrocken what a fucking legend

Colors of the Jesuits

I'm so confused, and angry. This album is amazing, and you shit all over it. How.

bring the melon, back together, cutting our, c o m m u n i c a t i o n

LEARN TO SWIM

Fetch me the melon the son and the father, tell them their pillar of faith has ascended...

Maynards dick

Close to a month later and this comment still makes me laugh.

It literally pulls you in like a magnet

RyFry This is my favorite comment with an Alex Grey avatar.

Do it without ill intent, but for a true spiritual lesson. This dude needs long and deep teachings. I'm not sure he listened to the same album I did.

RyFry This album is a sleeper

I got your back let's get this dude

yeah, 2040 was just around the corner

Dean Faragher in 4 months time we’ll be closer to 2040 than 2000

lol

@@alexanderloughran2716 Stop scarying me :(

😂

It's the best thing they have done by far. Listen, I am old, I saw them in the Lateralus tour in Europe. Lateralus is great but I remember reading many reviews at the time it came out that expressed a bit of disappointment with it because it pretty much followed Aenima and I always agreed. The infamous pitchfork review wasn't that misguided if you ask me. Lateralus has been ridiculously inflated by the more notes=better music crowd. Aenima is the complete package: Intense, emotional, beautiful, catchy, humorous, tragic, epic. It has more personality than anything they have done (just the production on it's own makes it a very distinct album). In Aenima they developed the musical language they have used ever since. One of the best albums ever made. I despised 10000 days, and while it's very inferior to Aenima/Lateralus I clicked with it and I enjoy it for what it is. To me Fear Inoculum is the insufferable boringness that comes of an uninspired band that just doesn't have it anymore.

Yo how the fuck did you type the ae thing ?

@@jigglybandito9505 Hold A on Android/iphone

It's just the lack of anything memorable. I've taught bass students Pneuma and I was just going, yeah, this is just a Tool thing like they do in this other song, here's how you can memorize it instead of trying to count it.

@@ericfellner2689 to people who aren’t as familiar with tool they might not see everything coming

@@romaretaylor9953 I wasn't talking about predictability. Nothing ever stands out. But to your point, what did they do on this album to attract new fans? Once you hear the title track, you could write down the features of that song and easily predict what the remaining hour of the album is going to sound like. It's a let down for old fans, and I don't see it attracting a large new audience.

@@romaretaylor9953 Yeah and if I haven't seen any horror movies I'm sure a horror movie that does nothing new with the genre could still scare me. That's a pretty low bar to have.

@@ericfellner2689 Lol there is no logic in your arguement at all. New fans won't have heard the similarities in to their old songs in this album so why wouldn't they like it? This is not the 2000s anymore of course bands will not have the same sound as they did over a decade ago. To say it simply won't attract new fans is just a stupid statement. Its got nothing to do with the content of the album its more likely just because metal is a genre that is not as popular as it was back in the day.

I knew immediately melon was gonna give it a bad score. I enjoyed the fuck out of it though, and will again tonite!

I was expecting like a 6, that's probably what I'd give it. But 4 sounds reasonable to me, definitely nothing close to their other work.

@@tomschult133 yeah, I know isn't nearly at the same level of Lateralus or Aénima, but is still an enjoyable record and definitely a grower. To give it a 6 or 7 seems like the better way to rate it. But you know, that's my opinion. I understand how many people could consider this an underwhelming record.

This.

Edit: A bet boren’

really boring.

@Big Smokei tried, i really tried with death grips, i'm happy if people like them but i just can't.

This right here. That album simultaneously made the band what they are and ruined them at the same time. 10,000 days felt like they over thought making Lateralus again and made an overall boring album. This album, they decided to make the songs long, and people will mistake long songs for being "good" songs.

I'm the other way around. I think Tool had its pinnacle of experimentation with Lateralus and then the experimentation started decaying to the point where they weren't an experimental band anymore, it all came down to FI which feels like it was standard alternative metal with very long songs. Worst thing is that you could at least enjoy 10k days as a legit album made by musicians that just wanted to get together and write some songs (even if they were a bit too long), FI didn't have any of that at all, it felt like it had no direction and didn't know what they were doing and had the worst of Lateralus as well - which I think is kind of a pretentious album at times but it still feels coherent at least -, the whole "let's make 12 minute songs because that'll make us look cool" felt way too forced IMO.

Tool isn't self indulgent, it's a band that teaches through their music. And while they might have lost their "bite and angst" even though I think they haven't. I see this as a growing point in their career, they make more songs that uplift, grow, and teach others. They've grown, they aren't a bunch of pissed of 20 year olds, even though I think they were still amazing when they were. They've just grown, like a student grows into a teacher.

@@jacobdomsalla5220 they make music for people who are either sniffing their own farts or tripping on LSD. I've never seen a band buy so hard into their own BS like tool did on this album.

"Self-indulgent" --means it is not an actual review of the music itself. Esper literally did not say a single thing about the actual music itself. It does not seem like Esper actually earnestly listened to this album, because the song Invincible is literally about "We don't want just the happily ever after, we want the struggle through the muck in order to reach it. Esper the Bard, please listen to this album. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. 40

😆 😆

Why cause you can't make up your mind for yourself and need others to tell you what to think?

@@christaker8953 look up the definition of sarcasm and then come back and delete your comment XD

Chris Taker yikes

@@christaker8953 cause melon rules all

I´ve just listened to the leak, I´m really dissapointed. 3/10

I'd never thought I would say this but.... I now prefer Korn over Tool

… *_when_ the new Korn record gets a higher score :^)

XDtheofficalchannel Not in a million years. Sorry.

Ruben Baeza Cause Anthony said so? Lmao it’s so bad obvious which Anthony and have their own opinions and which ones unironically just Mirror Melons.

Something but the pasta’s done*

Damn! I will always heard this from now on....

There are so few people that agree cant look down to see this album is a 4 maybe

👍 beautiful

Straight out of Fibonacci sequence

😂😂😂

zicon4 Legend

Its not as bad as you put it. The only issue is the songs are waaaay tooo long with nothing much happening between them. Its hard listening back and feeling it dragged out meanwhile Lateralus is roughly 9 minutes but time flies.

i adore u

4/10 would be a very Tool like time signature

😂

best comment lol

Four out of five sounds unheard of

@@dylanoneill what

underrated comment right here lol.

lol

@@hughjassyrection4382 *only 3 weeks...

No, please. It’s not too late. There’s nothing wrong with changing your opinion AFTER the melon review.

These comments are fucking stupid. You commented because you're triggered and cant stand someone isnt slobbing on Tools Tool.

Jajaja

idk, 2 hours ago i thought this was a 9.2 / 10 but now for some reason i'm feeling it's a decent to strong 4.

@@greatpower30 dude I'm legit fine with Fantano not liking this album. Fantano and I seem to disagree on 90% of things anyway. I'm just playing into the Fantano fandom meme

(as Ron Burgandy shaking a whisky snifter) I don't believe you.

@Gyaku just like fantano has an opinion,so do we,so let us say what we think about his review.

I loath Limp Bizkit, but I think things are judged by what they are, in relation to what they were trying to be, within their own sphere. Maybe the new Limp Bizkit is a solid 8 Limp Bizkit album, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a better album than a 4 Tool album, if that makes sense.

@@marcbousaleh you can have an opinion, but calling Fantano inconsistent is dumb. He is definitely not that. Love his opinions or not, at least he backs them up.

@@fabio78 Bingo. This is something many people do not consider when reading reviews. People just see scores and don't use their brains. Artistic intent plays a major role in how you score things. If an artists intention is literally to make an awful record, do you rate it a 2 out of 10 because it's bad, or higher because they accomplished what they set out to do? I myself would rate that Bizkit record a 7/10. It's not my taste, but I can see what they were going for and I think that they accomplished most of what they tried to do.

The lack of ass kissing in this review has been made up for with your comment.

@@ep1655 Yeah! Don't kiss the ass of the fanbase, you go Fantuan! *Ass kisses melon*

What? Everyone hates tool fans lol. We get shit on by everyone

Crunchyroll, Take Me Home, To The Place, Naruto He may have some “integrity” as you say, but that don’t mean there’ll not be tons of people on his ass about it.

This is such a sincere, irony-free comment, and I'm so grateful.

lol

Max cpm

Tibby 🤣

holy shit this was funny

The funny thing is it actually doesn’t, if they split them up into like 3 songs each they’d make more from streaming

why the album can feel tedious at times. But I still love all the songs on their own

jambi is 8 minutes long bro

Vitor Toniolo Relative to Tool, that’s on the shorter side. This album is all 10+ minutes

Yeah that's my problem with it. The compositions are well written technically, but emotionally the album is weak. There are barely any peaks sonically and any punch the album does have feels weak and ineffective. I'm all for a mellow album, but just don't bore the piss out of me

@Mike El Ehh, I doubt it.

this Could swear he would like it.

I've never been more heartbroken to be subjected to this album

@@Denature1020 to a good album?

@ChespinFan This even down to the score.

I don't like everything, by TOOL... I wasn't surprised by this review. This album sounded like a jam session, rather than a real album. 4 tracks from this album, will go in my TOOL circulation, but that's. I kind of feel like the band is just lost in their own self-righteousness. Bummer.

Can you link me to what interview that was from?

What he actually said is that the album could have been released in 2011-2012 and still be fantastic. But yeah you can pretty much infer by that he thinks it was better back then and they kept changing it to the point where it became overly calculated crap.

What?

We made a long review, got 0.05% of the views :P

REA you clearly haven’t listened to the album, most of the songs are 10-13 minutes Long.

@@Slesaint17 i just understood that. Thanks man!

Which is a good thing

Right!? It’s me and my dads favorite!

I liked the album, but I didn't like pneuma. It sounds like of tool had to write a cliché tool song instead of writing a natural song

@@chadc8588 go see tool live. your opinion will change

@@baynard3461 I hope, can't afford tickets. FI's growed on me the more I listen, I just can't compare fear inoculum to ænima or lateralus

It's the best song on the record.

He brought up his thoughts here on his latest KGLW album review and now I am sad

RandomDude WhoLikesMusic So, watermelon?

Hahahahahhaha

Was never subscribed, so didn’t have to do that. Disliked and reported!

Wait that's kind of cringe bro

Why are you assholes reporting? He is just expressing his opinion.

@@ItzSkillz ThAt'S ThE JoKe

Why would that be nice? The whole point of listening to one band as opposed to another is they each have their own unique sound. You can instantly tell that its a tool song even if you didn't know.

Danny Carey definitely steals the show on the album. Some of his best work.

But it’s true. Let’s be real with ourselves. Danny Carey is an amazing drummer, one of the best metal has ever seen. And Justin is an amazing bassist, Adam is a terrific writer... but this album sucks. It really sounds like they honestly did not want to make it.

@@louisradico1511 no one has that impression

@@matthewgonano636 notice how I said "some" of his best work

@@louisradico1511 says you, and only you

I have no idea if you're kidding

He can't, it's not vegan lol

"This grape has no purpose being here", "The red color looks garish, out of place", "This is just wine made from mixing together the 1995 batch with RiteAid's Moscato"

@imagine liking Death Grips unironically I approve of this theory.. He does shit on Maynard, a lot.

@Daymon Klotz maynard hates weed

what for he'll bash it as always

yes

Underrated

Very true

this is the best comment.

O. Steinman I never really listened to TOOL aside from a few of their songs, went in with an open mind wanted to give it an honest try since I never sat and really listened to the band and yeah I didn’t find anything really special about the album , nothing stood out to me, i found it OK, maybe it’s because there are so many fantastic musicians now a-days doing similar things that have set the bar so high for me. This is just my opinion I don’t dislike tool im indifferent

I feel like a lot of his puscifer sound bled into this album. I haven’t felt the affected by his vocals as much as the guitar work 🔥

Lol, if it takes 5 grams of mushrooms to make the music good, then it's not really all that good

​@@richardrisley2882 Nah. Mushrooms take music to an entirely different plane of existence.

I listen to this album every time I do mushrooms and it's always incredible, it's a tradition at this point.

FI is incredibly boring. It’s time to branch out to superior bands like Meshuggah, who continue to innovate their sound and consistently release incredible music. They never got lazy, unlike Tool.

@@Heliosphan33 i probably love meshuggah more than you but you're tripping if you think there's as much intra-discography variance as tool - they're hardly even comparable musically

Arizona Bay Did you not see the Red Flannel?

this is the perfect comment.

@@jacobr9048 could be a newer viewer that doesn't know much about the flannels, haha.

Jacob R only saw the title

You just got pranked