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Track List
01) The Grudge
02) Eon Blue Apocalypse
03) The Patient
04) Mantra
05) Schism
06) Parabol
07) Parabola
08) Ticks & Leeches
09) Lateralus
10) Disposition
11) Reflection
12) Triad
13) Faaip de Oiad
01) The Grudge
02) Eon Blue Apocalypse
03) The Patient
04) Mantra
05) Schism
06) Parabol
07) Parabola
08) Ticks & Leeches
09) Lateralus
10) Disposition
11) Reflection
12) Triad
13) Faaip de Oiad
8:36
1:07
7:13
1:14
6:46
3:06
6:05
8:08
9:24
4:48
11:10
8:46
2:40
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First Released
2001
Progressive Metal
Angry
Metal
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Fast
Album
2,600,000 copies
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In January 2001, Tool announced a new album, Systema Encéphale, along with a 12-song tracklist containing titles such as "Riverchrist", "Numbereft", "Encephatalis", "Musick", and "Coeliacus". File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles' names. At the time, Tool members were outspokenly critical of file-sharing networks in general due to their impact on artists that are dependent on record sales to continue their careers. Keenan said during an interview with NY Rock in 2000, "I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs."
A month later, the band revealed that the new album was actually titled Lateralus; the name Systema Encéphale and the tracklist had been a ruse. Lateralus and the corresponding tours would take Tool a step further toward art rock and progressive rock territory. Rolling Stone wrote in an attempt to summarize the album that "Drums, bass and guitars move in jarring cycles of hyperhowl and near-silent death march ... The prolonged running times of most of Lateralus' thirteen tracks are misleading; the entire album rolls and stomps with suitelike purpose." Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club expressed his opinion that Lateralus, with its 79 minutes and relatively complex and long songs—topped by the ten-and-a-half-minute music video for "Parabola"—posed a challenge to fans and music programming alike.
The album became a worldwide success, reaching No.1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut week. Tool received their second Grammy Award for the best metal performance of 2001 for the song "Schism". During the band's acceptance speech, drummer Carey stated that he would like to thank his parents (for putting up with him) and Satan, and bassist Chancellor concluded: "I want to thank my dad for doing my mom."
User Album Review
RIck Wakeman would be proud
Tool are clearly not a band afraid of their own gravitas. Name-dropped by nu-metallers, consistently cited as the most influential American group of the last ten years, they're big, they're quite clever, and don't they just know it. This LP took five years to make, lasts 76 minutes and the most straightforward song title on it is 'Eon Blue Apocalypse'. Like, woah, dude.
Tool's thing, basically, is progressive rock. Their music is highly structured, composed of loads of complex parts, has no choruses, no hooks, and no verses either, really. It doesn't sound like a particularly great prospect, all told - but in the world of metal, this is more evidence of Tool's great individuality. They don't appear in their own videos; their uncompromising stance is all.
All admirable stuff, but it hasn't, in the past, helped Tool make any particularly good records. Their past two LPs (1993's 'Undertow' and '96's 'Aenima') used the same principles to make essentially blank, grey walls of noise. Somehow, mysteriously, 'Lateralus' has added a little more colour to their palette of chanting, drumming and high drama. Singer Maynard James Keenan has been unaffected by the comparative tunefulness of his side project A Perfect Circle, while the stripped-down nature of the instrumentation means that Tool's innate heaviness shines out in a world of production tricks and dodges. There's no trickery - Tool's progressiveness is all their own work.
In this respect at least, they're the metal Radiohead. Though it's definitely a million times more metal than anything the Oxford miserablists have recorded, 'Lateralus' still easily contains the same amount of misery and self-obsessed navel-gazing. There's songs about crawling, dying, explosions, aliens and even one about 'Ticks And Leeches' to satisfy any craving for big, serious and grimy themes. And as America has taken Radiohead's work to heart, so it looks like they have with Tool, too. This LP has gone to the top of the US charts, beating Missy Elliott by 300,000 sales.
The comparison holds thematically true as well. The single 'Schism' might be one of their most melodic pieces yet, but opening track 'The Grudge' sets the tone of grave menace that takes hold of the LP, yet which is not explained. There's a sense of something being deeply wrong, but it's not articulated.
And that, rather than tunes, hooks, or even words, is the root of its addictive quality.
SOURCE: http://www.nme.com/reviews/tool/5142
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In January 2001, Tool announced a new album, Systema Encéphale, along with a 12-song tracklist containing titles such as "Riverchrist", "Numbereft", "Encephatalis", "Musick", and "Coeliacus". File-sharing networks such as Napster were flooded with bogus files bearing the titles' names. At the time, Tool members were outspokenly critical of file-sharing networks in general due to their impact on artists that are dependent on record sales to continue their careers. Keenan said during an interview with NY Rock in 2000, "I think there are a lot of other industries out there that might deserve being destroyed. The ones who get hurt by MP3s are not so much companies or the business, but the artists, people who are trying to write songs."
A month later, the band revealed that the new album was actually titled Lateralus; the name Systema Encéphale and the tracklist had been a ruse. Lateralus and the corresponding tours would take Tool a step further toward art rock and progressive rock territory. Rolling Stone wrote in an attempt to summarize the album that "Drums, bass and guitars move in jarring cycles of hyperhowl and near-silent death march ... The prolonged running times of most of Lateralus' thirteen tracks are misleading; the entire album rolls and stomps with suitelike purpose." Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club expressed his opinion that Lateralus, with its 79 minutes and relatively complex and long songs—topped by the ten-and-a-half-minute music video for "Parabola"—posed a challenge to fans and music programming alike.
The album became a worldwide success, reaching No.1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut week. Tool received their second Grammy Award for the best metal performance of 2001 for the song "Schism". During the band's acceptance speech, drummer Carey stated that he would like to thank his parents (for putting up with him) and Satan, and bassist Chancellor concluded: "I want to thank my dad for doing my mom."
User Album Review
RIck Wakeman would be proud
Tool are clearly not a band afraid of their own gravitas. Name-dropped by nu-metallers, consistently cited as the most influential American group of the last ten years, they're big, they're quite clever, and don't they just know it. This LP took five years to make, lasts 76 minutes and the most straightforward song title on it is 'Eon Blue Apocalypse'. Like, woah, dude.
Tool's thing, basically, is progressive rock. Their music is highly structured, composed of loads of complex parts, has no choruses, no hooks, and no verses either, really. It doesn't sound like a particularly great prospect, all told - but in the world of metal, this is more evidence of Tool's great individuality. They don't appear in their own videos; their uncompromising stance is all.
All admirable stuff, but it hasn't, in the past, helped Tool make any particularly good records. Their past two LPs (1993's 'Undertow' and '96's 'Aenima') used the same principles to make essentially blank, grey walls of noise. Somehow, mysteriously, 'Lateralus' has added a little more colour to their palette of chanting, drumming and high drama. Singer Maynard James Keenan has been unaffected by the comparative tunefulness of his side project A Perfect Circle, while the stripped-down nature of the instrumentation means that Tool's innate heaviness shines out in a world of production tricks and dodges. There's no trickery - Tool's progressiveness is all their own work.
In this respect at least, they're the metal Radiohead. Though it's definitely a million times more metal than anything the Oxford miserablists have recorded, 'Lateralus' still easily contains the same amount of misery and self-obsessed navel-gazing. There's songs about crawling, dying, explosions, aliens and even one about 'Ticks And Leeches' to satisfy any craving for big, serious and grimy themes. And as America has taken Radiohead's work to heart, so it looks like they have with Tool, too. This LP has gone to the top of the US charts, beating Missy Elliott by 300,000 sales.
The comparison holds thematically true as well. The single 'Schism' might be one of their most melodic pieces yet, but opening track 'The Grudge' sets the tone of grave menace that takes hold of the LP, yet which is not explained. There's a sense of something being deeply wrong, but it's not articulated.
And that, rather than tunes, hooks, or even words, is the root of its addictive quality.
SOURCE: http://www.nme.com/reviews/tool/5142
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