F&%# the Left Field...this album - Tool:Lateralus - deserves a thread in here

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Yall know where to look :mjpls: . I need all my nikkas to go to your nearest "store" and cop this album :wow:. I know a lot of yall dont like metal but man if you like hard drums, blaring riffs and thumping basslines you will love this shyt. Additionally the lyrics are so truthful and pungent. At the very least this album will have you hitting new maxes on a weekly basis in the gym. The shyt is so good I had to go to HMV after the fact and add it to my collection :wow:

I would go into a rant about how great it is but I'm at work and this guy sums it up perfectly:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3068RSYF6CDWS/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00005B36H&nodeID=5174&store=music#wasThisHelpful"]Amazon.com: Lord Chimp's review of Lateralus[/ame]
You do not listen to this album...you surrender yourself to it. The experience of Lateralus penetrates deeper than the brain -- it is deeply spiritual and uplifting. Sonically, the dark sound works powerfully with MJ Keenan's dynamic, unique vocals and lyrical messages. Whether he's questioning emotional dichotomies ("Schism") or reflecting on a difficult spiritual sojourn ("The Grudge"), there is a dark, brutal beauty to this music.
Few bands have a collegiality that matches that of Tool. With the exception of drummer Danny Carey, this is not a band of virtuoso musicians. What separates them from the rest is their united, progressive artistic vision and originality. Danny Carey's drumming is octopus-like, modulating every passage with rhythms I can't begin to understand. Put together with rest of the crew, the opaque instrumentation creates music of endless shades and layers, with time signature changes a supercomputer couldn't crack. There is magic here. Powerful, crunching riffs are foiled often by placid, narcotic passages, generating an album that only rarely "rocks." Instead, it's heavily cerebral, dark, beautiful...and ultimately indefinable. For a band that's selling millions of albums and getting mainstream recognition, they still carry an uncompromising progressive aesthetic.

Ignore those who make the asinine comment that "Tool sold out." All other factors being equal, this is Tool's _least_ commercially viable album. Frankly, I think it's fairly remarkable that they passed off a 7-minute music video ("Schism") onto MTV. (Credit the amusingly surreal video, I guess.) I guess when a band like this becomes popular, the so-called fans dismiss quality for the sake of remaining "hardcore." With lots of 8-minute songs, numerous melody shifts, texturally complex movements, world influences, enigmatic lyrics, this is not an album that can be easily digested. Aenima was complex in its own right, but is was nothing like _this_. I've had Lateralus for almost a year (at the time of this writing), and it remains as arresting as ever. It's so deep, I'm not sure I'll ever see the bottom; it's so high, I might never reach it. (Yes, I like that book.)

And yet in telling you all of this, I've told you nothing. I think the best music is the hardest to describe. Lateralus comfortably lands in that category.

We often hear, in a denigrating tone, "Yeah, that Lateralus is so self-indulgent." Quite. Tool made the album they wanted to make, with commercial considerations thrown out the window. Of course it's self-indulgent -- this isn't commercial pabulum. Clearly, Tool's objective wasn't to make _you_ happy, it was to make _themselves_ happy. This is what separates art from products.

Tool, strangely, managed to produce high art that remains a viable product. We expect mainstream rock to be dominated by bands like Creed, Nickelback, and Staind...not Tool. None of this matters, though. Whether it sells 10 million copies or 10 thousand, great music is great music. We don't need Rolling Stone or MTV to tell us that.
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_Lateralus_ is the all-time greatest rock album. Everything else sucks in comparison to the levels of brilliance attained here. It will never be surpassed and its secrets will never be fully unlocked.
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Please listen to it :why:. You might not even like it at first but give it its just due and you will recognize it is a masterpiece.

The Grudge, Schism, Parabola (the Vibrato :bow:), Title song :ohlawd:. Sample songs below:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4"]Tool - Lateralus - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo"]Tool - Schism - YouTube[/ame]

Theres a dude on youtube that can play every song on this and Aenima...I envy his talent.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9_IVYX0VeA"]Tool - Parabola on guitar - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV-SKSJaEfI"]Tool - The Grudge on guitar - YouTube[/ame]
 
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havent listened to this in ages, thanks, shyts a trip


but prepare to get ripped to shreds by the close minded fools
 
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jmetz08 said:
havent listened to this in ages, thanks, shyts a trip


but prepare to get ripped to shreds by the close minded fools
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I've done my part breh...if they wanna stay ignorant and continue listening to Rihanna, Chris Brown and a washed up Lil Wayne thats on them.
 
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I've done my part breh...if they wanna stay ignorant and continue listening to Rihanna, Chris Brown and a washed up Lil Wayne thats on them.
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this album while on shrooms or acid :lolbron:
 
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BETWEEEEN SUPPOOOOSEEEED LOVEEEEEEEEEERS :ahh:
Classic album from the GOAT metal band to me :wow:
I still prefer Aenima, but Lateralus is really close IMO, I just prefer Maynard's tortured voice on Aenima better...
10'000 days didnt really moved me but songs like Wings for Marie 2 and Rosetta Stoned are incredibly good...

In the next week Im a make a schroom trip on this 3 albums (dunno if i will include Salival) but if you ever watched the Vicarious vid, you know Tools songs is made to trip on :ahh:
 
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Liu Kang said:
BETWEEEEN SUPPOOOOSEEEED LOVEEEEEEEEEERS :ahh:
Classic album from the GOAT metal band to me :wow:
I still prefer Aenima, but Lateralus is really close IMO, I just prefer Maynard's tortured voice on Aenima better...
10'000 days didnt really moved me but songs like Wings for Marie 2 and Rosetta Stoned are incredibly good...

In the next week Im a make a schroom trip on this 3 albums (dunno if i will include Salival) but if you ever watched the Vicarious vid, you know Tools songs is made to trip on :ahh:
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I cant pick a favourite but it might have to be Schism. Maybe the Grudge or Parabola...I cant call it. Chris Cornell and Maynard have to be the best lead singers to me.

I still havent listened to 10,000 days breh :ahh: I gotta fully digest Lateralus. Aenima is piff (Eulogy "DONT YOU STEP OUT OF LINE", Stinkfist, Pushyt and H. are incredible) but it sags off towards the end for me a little bit. Aenima is defintely more raw and gritty so i know what you mean. The way Lateralus is put together, the way the songs build up, the numerous signature and riff changes. The drum rolls. The vibrato. The screams. fukking legendary shyt.

I always liked Korn but never really liked metal recently Tool has turned me into a metal fan. I dont know if it's even to be considered metal like that cause its progressive as they say but man I might have some catching up to do.
 
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