11/6/2022 0 Comments Reaper rado themeAnd though the album is easily their most drawn-out and ambient, it’s also immensely heavy. Keenan’s lyrics-layered, poetic, often elegiac-are as fun to analyse and interpret as ever. (Plus, Jones apparently wrote part of it in 21/16 time.) Justin Chancellor’s bass riffs are hypnotising and powerful, unique in their ability to be both repetitive, even monotonous, and completely engulfing. Guitarist Adam Jones unleashes more jams and solos than ever, particularly on the 15-minute opus “7empest”, which begins by sounding like the most traditionally TOOL song of the lot-but it sure doesn’t end that way. On their longest-ever album (despite only containing seven songs, broken up by three brief ambient interludes), TOOL refine and expand on their greatest strengths to create a meditative, intensely complex album that may, in terms of sheer musical skill, be their most impressive yet.ĭanny Carey’s extraordinarily creative and technical approach to rhythm takes centre stage, from assaultive double pedalling to atmospheric tablas and electronic tinkering, heard best on “Chocolate Chip Trip”, a five-minute, multidimensional percussion solo. Whether or not this album is the “grand finale… swan song and epilogue” that Maynard James Keenan alludes to in “Descending”, the first thing to say is that Fear Inoculum will not disappoint. It’s time to explore the 87 minutes of music we waited thousands of hours to hear. Instead, put on the best headphones you can find. But we just spent 13 years doing all that. We could keep agonising over why TOOL took so long to release Fear Inoculum, or to put their catalogue onto streaming services, or all the ways the world has changed since the alt/prog-metal band’s last album came out in 2006.
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