Tool - Fear Inoculum ALBUM REVIEW

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Tool's comeback album Fear Inoculum is insufficient not only by the immaculate standards of the band's past work, but by the standards of rock and metal music at large.
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FAV TRACKS: CULLING VOICES, 7EMPEST
LEAST FAV TRACK: (PHYSICAL) PNEUMA / (DIGITAL) THE INTERLUDES
TOOL - FEAR INOCULUM / 2019 / TOOL DISSECTIONAL / ALTERNATIVE METAL, PROG METAL
4/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?

[@trashhuman3977]

You only gave it a 4/10 because that's what you decided the rating should be after listening to the album

[@Chris.4345]

lol

[@nick3718]

lmao

[@victorj1415]

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

[@ff-qf1th]

why is this the top fucking comment

[@atlys258]

I'm dead 🤣🤣🤣

[@LotteYanson]

Let it be known that this guy ranked Lil Pump higher than Tool.

[@dirtyharry07]

Also Lulu

[@Moneyman-33]

LAW Actually glad you said that. Perfect comparison.

[@skinc4rver]

Is there something wrong with that?

[@SilversteinRescue]

Significantly higher.

[@derekwadas8489]

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!

[@danutd94]

He actually loves the album. Think about it... He gave it a 4/10, 4 being the primary quadratic integer of the constellation Argo Navis. When Mercury is in retrograde, this joins the twelve ancient celestial constellations belonging to Zodiac in orbit (with Argo Navis becoming the thirteenth). Babylonian astronomical cartography circa 400BC named Zodiac as the eleventh star of Gavidriel. 13 (also the number of years between Tool albums) multiplied by 11 is 143. In August 2019 (when Fear Inoculum was released) the first moon of Atlas Coelestis, Almagus, was eclipsed which added it to the constellation. 1 + 143 = 144…a fibonacci number. Therefore Fantano’s real review score is 144/10 - clearly the highest scoring album he has ever reviewed. Congratulations Tool, you’ve done it again!

[@nullify5031]

lmao.

[@a-man15]

Typical Tool fan 🙄🤣💀

[@pinkfloydmeddle6692]

that’s what I was thinking

[@Marco-er4ql]

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

[@moonlightreveries1459]

🤣 oh shit hahHahh

[@xuanathan]

Me: Eh, Fear Inoculum isn’t very good Also me: WARRIOR DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH STRUGGLING DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH TO REMAIN DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH RELEVANT

[@rapetoz4444]

yes

[@user-gh9yl3io8b]

PeZetOs fear inoculum is absolutely amazing

[@morenoharjoyudanto8889]

CHILD WAKE UP CHILD RELEASE THE LIGHT WAKE UP NOW CHILD

[@rhettmartyn2966]

Struggling to remain revelant.. So apt for this critic

[@kroh7742]

A tempest must be just like that

[@papioshposh487]

just a reminder... if you're mad at anthony for this review, pitchfork gave lateralus a 1.9

[@uncrownedoak7777]

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

[@JungleScene]

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

[@TheColdbloodedfox]

cosmic oof

[@mjkorb]

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

[@turtleshell6391]

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.

[@vicentebriceno3916]

You have really good points and the review is pretty objective. Good job Anthony! Unsubscribed.

[@juuhelikkas8848]

Vicente Briceño lmao

[@billyalarie929]

fucking lol

[@greatpower30]

Lol, tool fanboy in its natural crying state.

[@vividvulpe9842]

Lol

[@BassExpert666]

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

[@Solifuga]

Least favorite track: Pneuma PNEUMA?!! WHY

[@danielwinther3388]

Because he's a tool

[@BartasRapowanie]

Pneuma is literally like my top 3 tool songs, easy

[@m.h.1963]

My favorite on the Album!

[@bungersinyourarea]

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

[@AmmoGus1]

@@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

[@MrMikkelcool66]

If Pneuma is not a 12 minute long eargasm i do not know what is my dude

[@minutemenisgre1]

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

[@MrMikkelcool66]

@@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

[@minutemenisgre1]

@@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

[@leviathan3630]

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

[@lrwiersum]

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

[@jonahhernandez3671]

If you listen real close, Melon actually obliterates this album to the rhythm of the fibonacci sequence

[@brycereynolds6973]

Jonah Hernandez LOLLL

[@Sound_Judgement]

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

[@ezzrrrraaa]

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

[@mutecommercials]

Perfect

[@AWM05]

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

[@ragonk683]

wow just from the thumbnail... I can tell you really liked this album

[@Bruh-vr4ew]

Ra Gonk he’s wiping tears of joy

[@97EDUB]

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

[@gwkonyoutube]

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

[@zeemancan3713]

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

[@djn48]

@@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!

[@miracleofsound]

It's interesting how polarizing the album is/was. Personally I absolutely adore it - to me it feels like a beautiful musical and lyrical synergy that creates a mellow, meditative examination of growing old, anxious and tired - something I can definitely relate to as an old fart rocker, lol. And I disagree 100% on the chugging in Invincible, to me that groove is pure joy and super addictive :) I do agree on the boring interludes though... those were always my least favorite part of the band's work

[@DR.DisInfect]

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.

[@DR.DisInfect]

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

[@R.D.R.NIGHTINGALE]

What isnt polarizing anymore?

[@RawBogan]

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

[@wartamana6074]

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.

[@whitejosh444]

This album ages like fine wine

[@atomicvinylreviews3420]

agreed! and his review of it aged like fine milk

[@geoffharkins9336]

…that’s been dumped in a compost pile

[@canismajoris6733]

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

[@Augenda]

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

[@richardrisley2882]

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

[@SephirosB]

How dare you Anthony, I already told all my friends I liked the album

[@hikeran1994]

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

[@arsipantsu]

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

[@freeman7079]

🤣

[@JacobDFerguson]

XD XD

[@cassidymav]

Ikr? XD

[@DesolateSumo3]

I saw the red flannel and I knew it was over

[@armandoarrojo9841]

doomed...

[@TheCamSays]

I expected a 6. But then he drops this.

[@squeallymaniac]

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

[@97EDUB]

Yep. It was overjoyed

[@-k-b-]

TOOL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY CANCELLED!

[@pt8306]

You: This album is bad Me: I exhale you

[@Vahagnll]

LoL

[@fext7160]

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

[@adambennaim5500]

This album is underrated With multiple listens it grows much more Pneuma , invincible , descending, tempest are excellent

[@Chris75717]

Invincible is amazing

[@miquelenrigue330]

Hard agree

[@Heliosphan33]

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

[@glitzyterror7072]

7empest

[@williamost9083]

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

[@FloatingFireworks]

My heart is broken in multiple time signatures

[@xhinoteque]

good one

[@Abbey144441]

Lmao!

[@roberthenrypoet]

Yes!

[@kudos4201]

my heart playing in 90/32 listening to this review

[@Heatwave9000]

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

[@____smith]

Joke's on you Melon, I developed my opinion on this album 13 years ago

[@sydberetta4649]

Well played

[@97EDUB]

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

[@maxohrzen3106]

This album is so hyped we HAVE to love it

[@ethann9433]

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

[@jakobeboah1]

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

[@billstolze9943]

Can't remember the last time I disagreed with every single thing in a review...

[@thoryon8819]

This video becomes more and more hilarious as this album ages.

[@ReMetallicMusic]

ikr lmao

[@Tony_Williams_Right_Hand]

Same with his “The Violent Sleep of Reason” review

[@malarchy77]

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

[@_ProTrax]

@@malarchy77 lmao

[@jessew7565]

@@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

[@mr.garrison6548]

"TOOL fans HATE him."

[@davidnoriega7944]

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

[@vinylfinder33]

Everyone hates him

[@nalla1782]

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

[@rotmgpumcake]

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

[@moonman5543]

Real rool fans don't hate

[@chandara_kumar]

Imagine changing your music taste because someone didn't like it Edit: jeez.. it's like Somme in there Just listen to whatever makes you feel nice people. ;-)

[@RedceLL1978]

@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.

[@adintyaannasaidhiakharisma5202]

That's probably only mentally 9 yo did

[@TheShaitan2000]

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.

[@alexrinaldi3257]

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.

[@TallonC]

I think at this point Tool has become an instrumental band. Maynard is just a background instrument. When viewed as a vehicle for the band to display ambitious instrumental compositions, it’s pretty great. The problem is that I along with most people, love this band as a full rock band, not an instrumental group. But you can’t deny it’s the heaviest yoga soundtrack ever made.

[@iantheehee9153]

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

[@TallonC]

@@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.

[@TheChipmunkStew]

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

[@BBD-AITB]

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

[@litchqueenasenath5995]

I think the album is a victim of what I like to call "Half Life 3 Syndrome" The album was over-hyped over the past decade and anything at all would have been anticlimactic and a disappointment. I think this is a great record, its got some great Tool tracks on it, and had it been released closer to 10000 Days I feel it would be better due to the lack of HL3S

[@canadariots1139]

That’s a great take. For a woman.

[@idagrace9151]

@@canadariots1139 Fuck off

[@notever8401]

@@canadariots1139 weirdo

[@FUCKINGDOUG]

what an original take

[@ElHombretheman]

@@canadariots1139 lmao

[@BrunoinChains]

in response to this, Tool shall release a single written in a 4/10 signature

[@TemporalShrew]

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

[@robertcuff5704]

Bruno Silva 10th notes is prog af

[@dclarkmusic]

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

[@vshazam]

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

[@briankaslewicz6130]

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

[@Speedojesus]

>red flannel >face covered with hands >5k dislikes oh no.

[@FlyManChimera]

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

[@renapeppers20]

This is my worst nightmare

[@cassidymav]

*7k 😈

[@KCgrunge]

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

[@HiddenMystic1]

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

[@TheViolentDesign]

This album has really grown on me over the last few years. I really, REALLY disliked it when it came out, everything seemed so overplayed, overthought and way too long. But within a few replays, it's become one of my most played albums as a whole. I like Tool, I don't worship them like a lot of people seem too do. I just enjoy plugging a few songs on here and there into a playlist of my youth. But something about this album has really grown on me. It just works. Wish there was a better way to describe it. The way it moves from one song to the next, it's sort of a trip. Found myself listening to it at work in a place where there are droning fan noises, negative temperatures and no contact with outside people, and putting this album on as a whole every once in a while made me sort of get it? Maybe? It easily moves from one track to the next as one great Tool song. Sounds stupid, I don't really know how to describe it, but feel like in a few years people will retrospectively come to love this album. A lot of people already do, and watching live video performances of songs really helps understand the mood they where going for. TLDR watch some live videos of songs from this album then revisit, it's difficult to describe a mood without seeming like it's going too deep. Hell of a record.

[@thog4529]

Took 3 years for me to like it

[@SKULLKR3W]

its still dog shit

[@bevrosity]

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

[@williambrookings722]

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.

[@brandoW20]

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

[@laughlin301]

Honestly the more I listen to this record, the more I love it. It's kinda like acquired taste. This is now one of my favourite records

[@grammajam3682]

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

[@travisthornton1792]

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.

[@christianhackl474]

@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

[@lukesteiner8934]

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

[@travisthornton1792]

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

[@nootnoot5238]

*sees thumbnail* *sees like/dislike ratio* Oh boy

[@DoctorFurioso]

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

[@pukelius4128]

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

[@flavorTown88]

They shouldn't have rushed the release

[@deanfaragher9288]

yeah, 2040 was just around the corner

[@alexanderloughran2716]

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

[@serwetkowywritter1]

lol

[@MarioMario-my5ib]

@@alexanderloughran2716 Stop scarying me :(

[@freeman7079]

😂

[@JBrooksNYS]

3 years after this review, this dude is probably at home right now blasting Invincible and singing along.

[@lucasmarangoni5296]

Nah, he isn't

[@javigd96]

WHAT. YOU. SEE. INOCULATED

[@lcepik21]

@@javigd96BLESS THIS IMMUNITY

[@kylethisismylastname6737]

Revisited this album after a few years. It's a real grower and I feel much more positive about it. I think Anthony should revisit it.

[@bo-bx5hn]

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.

[@Alix777.]

You are so delusional

[@njrau]

Bruh. It was released TWO years ago

[@PlaysWithChildren]

@Alix Which user were you commenting toward?

[@dms5341]

@@bo-bx5hn LOL good one

[@robertpowell9982]

21K likes / 15K dislikes Huh...I'm guessing he didn't like it...

[@morganporsche375]

You shoulda known by his red flannel

[@choreboy988]

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.

[@timothyo718]

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.

[@JamesBond-ql6ec]

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, KZbin 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.

[@choreboy988]

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.

[@mishmashmush]

Saw the notification. Saw the red flannel in the thumbnail. *Aw shit, here we go again.*

[@greigns7781]

Just a daily reminder that Fantano gave this album a lower rating than Eat The Elephant by A Perfect Circle.... that still blows my mind to this day

[@UrinationNation]

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.

[@cvrator]

Over the past couple of years, I've listened to this review dozens of times, and I have to say that it's aging really well. It's grown on me, and now it's my favorite review.

[@Retexid]

Lmao

[@jimbo8581]

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

[@cvrator]

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

[@padriangonzalvogomez9593]

Underrated

[@C19J99]

Unfortunately melon, it's too late and I've already decided this is a good album. You were too slow so I had to form my own opinions :(

[@wb1484]

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

[@greatpower30]

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

[@caverappleyard5140]

Jajaja

[@BliboranBass]

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.

[@C19J99]

@@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

[@justin9571]

Your Lana review is too late Pitchfork already provided me with an opinion

[@MinecraftCow345]

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

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

P4k stinky tho

[@user-xj3bz8wr6e]

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

[@thegroove14]

Anthony Fucking Fantano

[@TheMarkoPolo2011]

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

[@bendykirby4828]

Decent 7 for me, though I think we can all agree that Culling Voices is the most slept-on song in any Tool record since Undertow

[@masterofdisguise9564]

It’s still a good song though.

[@bendykirby4828]

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

[@Vassimau]

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

[@blankearth5840]

Culling Voices hits different that’s why

[@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6]

Intension

[@mlgnews115]

I feel like the album is exhausting to listen to and I’ve maybe listened to it 5 or 6 times and every time I listen I just feel exhausted after invincible most or none of the songs need to be as long as they are

[@kmsharley75]

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

[@FendergodGaming]

@@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

[@jayzonedc6474]

​@@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.

[@HeyZeus096]

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

[@kmsharley75]

@@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.

[@josh_wink]

The sad part is that you can hear the disappointment in Anthony's voice

[@kidindie6]

00:00

[@billyalarie929]

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.

[@gulermo]

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

[@billyalarie929]

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

[@Moneyman-33]

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.

[@nono-ky2yu]

Made tons of fair points supporting your opinions on the album. Unsubscribed, disliked, and reported.

[@thisvampireheart1]

Hahahahahhaha

[@jotojry]

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

[@dotcomstyle]

Wait that's kind of cringe bro

[@ItzSkillz]

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

[@kaiservilhelm7731]

@@ItzSkillz ThAt'S ThE JoKe

[@Machinerium]

Fear Boredom... I never thought that I'll feel that

[@oneilone7921]

Tool is my absolute favorite band and I will always love them. Know that I also strongly agree with him

[@Vrog311]

Same.

[@SlyRyFry]

I see your stance and respect your right to have it, but to be honest I'm gonna beat you up

[@freelance_commie]

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

[@dracolusus]

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.

[@ThecrazyJH96]

RyFry This album is a sleeper

[@Hunac-Ceel]

I got your back let's get this dude

[@samael8288]

As soon as I saw the thumbnail a verbally said oh shit

[@TheDealer1228]

Samael Me too. 😂

[@samael8288]

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

[@samael8288]

Tmljaw I would’ve given it a six

[@LukeSnywalker523]

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"

[@Bender1]

i*

[@TheFrodoBaggins33]

the first time I listened, I was a little bit iffy but I liked it overall. Then I listened to 7empest and was blown away, started listening to the album over and over. It's grown on me a TON

[@c-eproductions3963]

On first listen, I was skeptical and didn't really connect with it. But after every listen, It grew on me and I started to understand it more and more. It's different than anything they've ever put out. So it's understandable why some would be indifferent on it.

[@blankearth5840]

It literally pulls you in like a magnet

[@kylevanzyl6452]

Making a Tool album people hate is the most Tool thing ever

[@allvideogamesarebad2698]

Third eye opening

[@apyr54]

?????

[@thecryptidhunters3807]

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

[@morgellon7877]

But everybody liked the other ones.

[@grammerpolicedeputy6913]

Pneuma makes up for every other song in the album

[@bix3622]

Black And Red are All i see

[@EinFelsbrocken]

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

[@nicolasriveros943]

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

[@whitemotheroffour9837]

Felsbrocken what a fucking legend

[@laconflo1613]

Colors of the Jesuits

[@quinnorr]

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

[@Rgemma1019]

I still feel this one more than 10,000 Days. But am I the only one whos taking Ænima over EVERYTHING THIS BAND HAS DONE???? Like holy shit that one holds up and holds its crown high to this day

[@jariza2606]

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.

[@jigglybandito9505]

Yo how the fuck did you type the ae thing ?

[@eclipseedits2696]

@@jigglybandito9505 Hold A on Android/iphone

[@user-rh1jo1yy9e]

I respectfully disagree, I like this album :)

[@willcantor5720]

Weird to see Maynard James Keenan giving his own album a negative review

[@houkhohs8794]

Underratedthony Commentano

[@Flamestar320]

Good one.

[@mrbobcr]

I spat my coffee.

[@calibanism]

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

[@CORF.]

Lmaooooo

[@tibeerius3656]

All the songs are ten minutes because it gives them extra ad revenue.

[@calicosky9863]

lol

[@mattbutler4953]

Max cpm

[@freeman7079]

Tibby 🤣

[@mangsmoof]

holy shit this was funny

[@natedawes8989]

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

[@geoffreybrunell5592]

I still don't understand what was so bad about this album compared to their previous albums that made you rate this a 4.

[@ericfellner2689]

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.

[@romaretaylor9953]

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

[@ericfellner2689]

@@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.

[@Szanth]

@@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.

[@Heatwave9000]

@@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.

[@IVANdtk117]

One year later and this opinion is worse and the album Is better

[@blackspine343]

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

[@IVANdtk117]

@@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

[@LaVerdad65]

Polyrhythms good! 4/4 bad! GENIUS

[@IVANdtk117]

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

[@LaVerdad65]

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

[@mateomolinari9406]

I agree with the rating, 4/5 seems fine! Loved the album!

[@Vaeren222]

😂

[@Devin_Art]

best comment lol

[@dylanoneill]

Four out of five sounds unheard of

[@Devin_Art]

@@dylanoneill what

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

underrated comment right here lol.

[@asdfghjk6493]

Point the finger, blame the other, watch the melon topple over

[@thesharpearthproject6098]

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

[@fc43]

LEARN TO SWIM

[@stephenrochester6309]

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

[@friedpickles342]

Maynards dick

[@Pusher97]

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

[@OhOkayThenLazySusan]

It's nice to hear someone not kissing the fanbase's ass. Some good points. I disagree with the overall assessment but the sincerity is refreshing!

[@ep1655]

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

[@Axisoflords]

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

[@AmmoGus1]

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

[@IceKoldKilla]

Watching this 2 years later, I definitely noticed comments you made coming from a place of ignorance. The legal hell they were in for the past few years before Fear Inoculum explains why they took so long, why they couldn't tour for a few years and why their music wasn't available online for streaming. Nothing could be done or progress until the lawsuits were settled. These involved the record label. Thank god, it's over and their contract with the label has also ended. I hope to see Tool release way more stuff including music videos, EP maybe, albums, etc. They obviously take years to make a great album. That was always the case, but now they are independent and can decide when to start working and when to release. No more bullshit holding them back now. So we'll see what happens. They're also getting older and their prime young years are over so now family and other things hold a priority. Danny alone is nearing 60 so... Can't see them wanting to go on forever like other big bands have. They've talked about the YEARS upon YEARS of recordings they have of nearly every show. So that stuff will release one day. Not all of it but I mean there's enough for multiple releases from the sound of it. Many theorize it's their retirement plan. Release live music once they retire.

[@nicolasriveros943]

*Me after listening Fear Inoculum* : is not bad but not great. Melon is gonna give it a DAMN/10 *Melon uploads review* : JESUS CHRIST

[@JungleScene]

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

[@tomschult133]

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.

[@nicolasriveros943]

@@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.

[@missingno-xk7kp]

When the review is shorter than the songs on the record

[@Aryeh487]

What?

[@BehindThatSuit]

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

[@Slesaint17]

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

[@Aryeh487]

@@Slesaint17 i just understood that. Thanks man!

[@thomasche]

Which is a good thing

[@azhurelpigeon]

Problem is that these songs aren’t bad, there are always long, & expansive songs on a Tool album, like Lateralus & Rosetta Stoned. But a whole album of those long songs with no short heavy hitting bangers like Jambi or Sober? Nah man...

[@matthewstevens2556]

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

[@vitortoniolo4880]

jambi is 8 minutes long bro

[@azhurelpigeon]

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

[@TheLeftistOwl]

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

[@azhurelpigeon]

@Mike El Ehh, I doubt it.

[@ErrolCe]

I’m still mad about this

[@masterofdisguise9564]

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

[@YxngFresco]

“A bit boring.” - Kmac2021 (2019)

[@unsuccessfullyjari]

This.

[@Moh_D]

Edit: A bet boren’

[@demongoat]

really boring.

[@demongoat]

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

[@flightnesssnowbirb8318]

I never been more heartbroken to see a red flannel in my life

[@cifxr]

this Could swear he would like it.

[@Denature1020]

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

[@HeyIntegrity]

@@Denature1020 to a good album?

[@chucktownattack]

@ChespinFan This even down to the score.

[@dijidl]

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.

[@elasticater8429]

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[@seanbrent8294]

How could you review a tool album 3 weeks after its release?

[@hughjassyrection4382]

lol

[@seanbrent8294]

@@hughjassyrection4382 *only 3 weeks...

[@Kodeb8]

Hey Anthony, you should review the new Tool album!

[@nahte-]

Lain Lover lol

[@harveycryst222]

Heard it's rockin'!

[@sebastianbendezu6337]

Present day

[@hayden6700]

Funny and original!

[@jurgen9678]

Great opinion! I love you lain

[@isaiahnieves9801]

Dammit, now I can't enjoy this album I've been enjoying for the past week

[@JustJohnnyIV]

😆 😆

[@christaker8953]

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

[@Terribadguy.]

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

[@VISOVNI]

Chris Taker yikes

[@user-ue2lx6py9j]

@@christaker8953 cause melon rules all

[@timsopinion]

Maynard made a comment about how the record "was pretty great at one point" but blames the outcome on having basically overcooked it and re-thought it so many times that it just became something they all needed to sit down and finish. I think that's a pretty good description of what we ended up with, it sounds like the band is a bit tired and couldn't drum up enough passion to go as deep as they would have liked. Also, being that they have endless amounts of time to spend in the studio, they simply over-thought it and ended up with a lukewarm effort. I can still enjoy it for its meditative flow and ability to help me tune out the world around me, but it's not anywhere close to a great Tool record.

[@Szanth]

Can you link me to what interview that was from?

[@Retexid]

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.

[@1nnards]

Was the first Tool record I'd heard where I didn't really feel interested in listening again, especially when the rest of their records are so accessible now.

[@zicon4]

Black And Red are All I see In the thumbnail he Is the melon named Anthony Have to say that we Disagree

[@jaredwright1655]

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

[@MikePattonFan24]

👍 beautiful

[@kushalbhattacharjee2252]

Straight out of Fibonacci sequence

[@bradengubler296]

😂😂😂

[@kawabunga1029]

zicon4 Legend

[@jackpivarnik7205]

i disagree with you wholeheartedly but once again thanks for your honest opinion and for being a critic with real integrity

[@derekwadas8489]

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.

[@badmotorpetey]

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

[@EllusionAlu]

Originally I wrote a very scathing and negative comment on how I thought this video was stupid and pointless, then I took the time and watched it. You bring up a wide variety of points, many of which are good while I few I feel are nitpicky (i.e: the Pneuma complaints are a bit rough because apart from 7empest, I think it’s the best track on the record), but you are valid in many areas. I give the record a 6.5 or 7 out of 10 personally but I give your review a 10 because it’s informative and actually quite well rounded.

[@--REGULAR--REGULAR]

I love the mature direction Tool sought after. They aren't trying to sound super youthful here and I prefer that than a band from their heyday repeating what they've always done. This was a beautifully recorded album and the interplay between the group is really tense and emotive. It's like a 8 for me. Edit: If Tool decided to do a black metal album Anthony would've given it way a higher score.

[@TheActionCobblestone]

It’s not mature, the guitar tones and synths are amateur at best.

[@justinreich2023]

I agree wholeheartedly, and you can hear MJK expressing this in Invincible. they're not the band they used to be, for better or for worse. there are distinct eras in TOOL's discography, and I think Fear Inoculum is the start of a new one.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

that edit makes zero sense and is just childish. Anthony has criticized black metal albums before and gotten shit for it. feel free to disagree (I have before; usually I like albums more than he does, because I don't have to listen to music I dislike for a living), but that's a dogshit way to think about how people with dissenting opinions where they are all just playing for a different team. if you genuinely think that, I don't think you are very familiar with him. he has reviewed genres positively, negatively, etc., so it's pretty hilarious when devotees of one band get all angry and say, "oh, you should just stick to THIS subgenre!" ... and then devotees of that subgenre get livid at a review of his and say to stick to a different genre instead.

[@mishamazureka3486]

Anthony in the time it took you to put out this review finally there have been eighteen new King Gizzard albums. Get back to work or the wallets stop flowing.

[@yes-fq6jd]

chopin?

[@mishamazureka3486]

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

[@dangodjango]

4+7empest=11/10 melon mad generous today huh

[@JwOhEight]

DangoDjango 11/tenpest

[@dangodjango]

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

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

No.

[@aeon7986]

When I saw your review initially I agreed with you. But now after revisiting months later I just cant stop listening to this album, I think that makes it a great for me.

[@xdtheofficalchannel8334]

Its gonna be really funny if that new Korn record gets a higher score.

[@matusalmasi274]

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

[@Devilsblood]

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

[@facilegoose9347]

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

[@fulcruman1877]

XDtheofficalchannel Not in a million years. Sorry.

[@Moneyman-33]

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.

[@o.steinman3855]

This album is what I imagine Tool sounds like to people that don’t like Tool

[@danielparra3758]

yes

[@chrispink3440]

Underrated

[@tomschult133]

Very true

[@PatoGuzmanAd]

this is the best comment.

[@SebastianTinajero]

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

[@thebunker1618]

I felt almost the same way 2 years ago. It felt like a lesser retread of 10,000 Days. I couldn't get into it. Revisting it recently I was pleasantly surprised. I didn't give it enough time initially. I think it's fantastic! It is right up there with their best.

[@retro.spectral]

Exactly my impression. Haven't returned to it once since it was released.

[@nullifier_]

Yeah... to me it was "ok". I like two songs from it and that's all.

[@kmsharley75]

@@nullifier_ which two?

[@nullifier_]

@@kmsharley75 Descending and Pneuma. Though they still suffer from most of the things in this album: Super unecessairily long with sections which adds little to nothing.

[@jeanpierrenossa2653]

"Danny Carey Drumming Dry" BRUH

[@woahhbro2906]

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

[@louisradico1511]

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.

[@FUCKINGDOUG]

@@louisradico1511 no one has that impression

[@woahhbro2906]

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

[@rodtaylor5476]

@@louisradico1511 says you, and only you

[@clintmcallister1647]

I don’t understand how “Pneuma” straight up got no love :(

[@ZachisntReal]

Right!? It’s me and my dads favorite!

[@chadc8588]

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

[@baynard3461]

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

[@chadc8588]

@@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

[@shittymcshittingson7125]

It's the best song on the record.

[@FractalZero]

I listened to this album just after the peak of a 5g shroom trip and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I always thought that FI was probably their best work, but after that experience I knew it. It's so mature, and it's so oblique that I can't blame anyone for not liking it or giving it 4/10. Gotta say it does take a few very careful listens to appreciate the fact that the composition and execution is the polar opposite of boring - it's amongst their most stimulating and complex work. It's kinda wild that melon doesn't acknowledge any of that despite being a musician, but then again the subjectivity of music is its beauty

[@richardrisley2882]

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

[@andrewhackney6286]

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

[@broccoliking6668]

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

[@Heliosphan33]

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.

[@FractalZero]

@@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

[@illProductionsmp]

Maynard: *sees 4/10* “DONT YOU DARE POINT THAT AT ME”

[@symmetry_disjointed]

i adore u

[@austinstaab1205]

4/10 would be a very Tool like time signature

[@airwaydude014]

Meanwhile the new Limp Bizkit record gets a solid 8

[@samsonthesaxman]

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

[@marcbousaleh]

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

[@fabio78]

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.

[@i_kickflipped_my_dog]

@@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.

[@IAmNeomic]

@@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.

[@esperthebard]

Tool has sadly lost an important element: that touch of punk or angst that gave them bite, rawness, and creative energy. Lateralus is an amazing album, but it shifted the band in a direction that made them too self-indulgent in their sophisticated-cosmic-fine-art. Yes, it's wonderful to reach Heaven, but you have to keep a bit of the Hell too, or else you flatten into repetitive, stale, uninspired territory. We don't want just the happily ever after, we want the struggle through the muck in order to reach it.

[@richardrisley2882]

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.

[@WorldGovernmentGeoInstitut]

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.

[@jacobdomsalla5220]

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.

[@richardrisley2882]

@@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.

[@stevenr5149]

"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

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

Checking in one year later and I almost forgot this album exists

[@SKULLKR3W]

i did i was wondering today if it ever came out and found this lol

[@TheSectric]

Your loss

[@calebhale7311]

LMAOO

[@TYR1139]

Same

[@savvei]

Hey Anthony, thanks for picking my son up from school. It means a lot.

[@tobiasmoodias4855]

@@dignanworldchampion Diper

[@nast8219]

@@dignanworldchampion pee poopee

[@canoli8]

@@dignanworldchampion More of a caca man, myself.

[@airplaneoverthesemen]

Uhhh do you mean HIS son?

[@ToLWaM]

Unsubbed

[@TheRapAgenda]

late.. AGAIN, melon. I already formulated an opinion on this album and there’s nothing you can do to change my mind now.

[@loatist]

I have no idea if you're kidding

[@ameliasteynberg5841]

Wrongthony Badtano

[@dantevaun903]

Back because I've purchased the album so I have the collection. On first listen when it came out I was like, "Okay, this is a solid album but I'm kinda underwhelmed." Now that I've heard the album a few times on my car stereo I've had a change of heart. Yes, it would be nice to hear Tool experiment and deviate from their usual sound, but honestly in my opinion it will go down as one of the best albums of their discography. My rating as of now (over a year later) would be a solid 8/10.

[@Heatwave9000]

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.

[@randomdudewholikesmusic1640]

Review, long overdue Red Melon, I exhale you

[@OQIF87NREU]

RandomDude WhoLikesMusic So, watermelon?

[@justingriffin2264]

This dropped right when I was thinking about it, hope it’s good! EDIT: bruh

[@jacobr9048]

Arizona Bay Did you not see the Red Flannel?

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

this is the perfect comment.

[@TheMetalTempestYT]

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

[@justingriffin2264]

Jacob R only saw the title

[@boRalto]

You just got pranked

[@timekeeper2538]

I don't see how I could possibly respect this man's opinion on music lol

[@winston5907]

Gets better the more you listen to it

[@speakerdestroyer425]

Review Maynard's wine next.

[@james90751]

He can't, it's not vegan lol

[@VikasBhargava1981]

"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"

[@dijidl]

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

[@jliveris711]

@Daymon Klotz maynard hates weed

[@renapeppers20]

what for he'll bash it as always