Waited 12 years for an album of songs that are all at least 8 minutes long, and 1 16 minutes...

@@JerryDodge 1+1+6=8. 😁

Yeah he's worried about it being too long and here we were all devastated when 7empest ended

For Saturns return...

The other day my co-worker said "I can't believe it's been 15 years since their last album..." I had a great time letting him know he's a little late to the most recent album lol

Wouldn't it be the Tool Shed? ;)

#same. He totally gets it. Very refreshing.

@@MrBrownstone8881 they have a little tool shed, where they make us suffer... and thank god for that😉

@@Scp716creativecommons isn't that what the "backward message" in stairway to heaven is supposed to say?

Right? Once you realize it's Adam and Danny's band. Maynard is just the singer, and I've heard that he writes the vocals/lyrics last as a way of fitting in to what the composers have already written. It's one of the main reasons he is not a huge presence on-stage.

Underrated comment 😁

LMFAO... and YES!!!

7empest is a PRIME example of this. Everyone wants to talk about Adam shredding the song, which he totally does! BUT, Danny keeps up at every step. Often, outshining Adam.

@@richardtibbettsiii485 , The only song I usually pass is Chocolate Trip... only because it reminds me off my "bad" acid trip(s). Which none were, per se' , however others would say definitely yes. ;)

Nailed it!

It's the same imo with the ending to Lateralus, all that complexity culminates in the ultimate headbang moment.

Absolutely Tool do this ... Aenima (the album) doesn't have 'filler' songs; it has palate cleansers. The Japanese concept of "ma" - the empty space between the spokes of a wheel that while immaterial, give it form.

Pickled ginger

@@RicosTinFoilSombrero Pickled Ginger

Danny loves Neil

Considering Neil was potentially the only drummer that might be better than Danny

There's a conversation to be had about that, which will probably reach a stalemate.

Yeah, Rush does a lot of stuff out of 4/4 and it's great too 😎👍

@@normancounts2924 that’s 🧢

I'm also a huge Justin fan. He so often gets overlooked in my opinion. They're all giants.

Justin's bass playing (and Chris' from Muse) made me buy my first bass as a guitarist. Best decision ever

@@Snorlax1500 Me too! I bought mine back in 1996, I was inspired by his work on AENEMA! And yes, Chris Wolstenholme is also an amazing Bass player!

Justin took this band from alt metal in the mid-nineties to next level musicianship. He is underrated.

My girl knew of tool, but has been thoroughly subject for the years with me, one of my "yup, right soul for me" moments was when she said "they're really good, and I like his voice, but the bass is my favorite part, it's so different" 😱🤯🥺 I'd like to say a quick thank you to creator, guess I had a little good karma after all

We're all about that validation!

Let’s pray he reads your comment 🙏

@@-TRIAD- Triad ❤️❤️❤️ I second this!

@@lbow09 1st lady Lisa ❤️ love to Max, James,husband and your awesome mother in law ❤️

@@-TRIAD- right back at ya!!

46/2 next

Actually, one of two. I've been saying this for years. Geebz is a blessing to the reaction community.

Lol, he looks like he could beat up the guy that could beat me up.

Dude is ripped

Lol this aged well

@@siddharthiyer1120 You mean he's even older now? surprise surprise

@@samheasmanwhite Haha nah just the drama with him rn ties into the "i bet he could beat me up" bit. Just funny lol

Lol, Pneuma is good but it is by no means their magnum opus. Only someone who's not very familiar with Tool's work would say that.

I dunno. 7empest combines three of their different music periods all into one magnificent auditory experience.

as a tool fan for like 9 months, it's my favorite song so far (mostly because it played perfectly during the peak of one of my strongest shroom trips). But i'm still discovering more of their songs I like after many many leisurely listens as I continue to live in this world. ~"A chance to be, alive and breathing"

Having owned and listened to all the Tools albums. Pneuma is the song that really stands out on this album. Descending is sick, 7empest is good, but Pneuma, the whole package of lyrics, the rhythmic changes, it really stands out among all of Tool's songs.

Been a fan for 3 years, pneuma has been my favorite for half of that, and I've listened to their whole discog hundreds of times ​@flybeep1661

It is so wonderful. I really love this song.You gonna love it.

and i have to say ive had the opposite experience. i am 26 and found tool last year when i picked up the guitar and decided to learn it with seriousness. and as i delve deeper into music theory the more i end up studying this as if its some sort of rosetta stone of music. a way of translation, if you will. putting some of the most abstract and difficult time sigs and theories in play and making it come across as something that can be taken in as a single breath. its on a different level of what other groups or artists are even attempting. tool could make any form of rock and do it well. they choose to sit down and create algorithms rather than do simple math.

Same, fan since 2001, back when I was 15

@@rleandro315 same same

The insights of a "decomposer" have enlightened me

truth!

I've listened to tool since 96 it's infiltration into every part of my life and I'm not ready for fear enoculum so yeah it's a personal journey it's not specific to whatever another person thinks or feels. I don't know when I'll be ready for that journey to begin I live mostly in opiate,undertow,ten thousand days era. It still so much to absorb it's still unbelievably powerful to me and I don't know of a better ideal for living. I cannot even understand what he's saying in the new songs. It's another thing entirely. Those of you who just jump into are wasting your time because you don't follow what's being said either it's miles ahead of what's being understood in the current time line. You can say whatever but really think about it.. the albums are a series of stories opiate is how man destroyed man with false dogma and rediculas ideals that never were the truth undertow is how man destroyed mankind thru trying to put the peices back together but still was wrong and kept destroying everything and then thousand days is mourning the loss of the spiritual and physical lives and what could have been if it was not all destroyed by snake oil sales men past that point it's a long way to go to figure out the message but it's very deep and complicated. The band is Tool meaning their message is a tool to understand and figure things out it's unreal to me the closeness of thoughts and moments Alligned with this incredible experience. If that makes sense to you pay attention things are still to be revealed.. yes his mother too but it's not only about that. It was more of a advanced tool to get deeper Into the sadness and compassion.

Exactly. We waited 13 years for this album, after all.

You hit the nail on the head sir!!!

This 👆🏻

Danny is actually the lead. Justin and Maynard are constantly watching him for cues from Danny. Some have claimed Maynard simply does it bc he likes watching Danny, but really Danny is the control and leader of their performances

Wow, thank you!

Oh jeah, he's ours 4 sure

lol

He says the things

He has no reason to be deceitful. He's just a new tool fan

Reminds me of this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eb-bZdFykrnZqqc.html

Yes. Every other drummer: some interesting time signatures here. Not quite sure what it is. This guy after 2 seconds: “here’s what it is”

Other drummers even if they're not sure what Danny is doing still recognize that he is the master

@@shaun374 no hate to the decomposer but he never mentioned the time signature tho.

@@ArpitBhattacharjee I think it’s because at this point he has realized that the time signature is not the important thing. It’s the rhythm that matters, and how it interacts with the pulse of the tempo

@@the_zenith_ i get it but the comment I replied to basically said that the decomposer instantly said which time signature the song is in which is not true.

Obvious athlete basketball player.

Gavin Harrison?

@@pepeov3006 Was just about to say! I think Gavin Harrison is even slightly better at dynamics and really making the drums sing, but then again I'm a bit more into the softer type

I wouldn't consider porcupine tree to be prog metal really. More prog rock. But Gavin is an amazing player

The entire band. Unit. All at the top of the game.

@Dan Kennedy So true. Great point, NEVER thought about it like this. I have been a fan since 95. Seen them live 12 times. Thanks for the new/different perspective.

He also stays back there to keep the music from the amps and Danny’s drums from going through his mic and distorting the vocals

As a professional chef I REALLY appreciated that analogy too. In fact, if the opportunity ever presents itself, I'm stealing it and gonna work into a conversation hehe.

A journalist once said to Danny "you delve into odd meters often, but when you play in 4/4, it's like a celebration." He knows how and when to just straight up groove after working the odd times in Tool's songs.

*#lolz*

Thank you so much, Paul :)

Top notch recommendations. A man of culture I see 🤘🤘🤣

Yes, yes, yes and yes

Gojira!!!

Fist bump

Gojira is my 2nd top favorite band besides Tool 🤟🤟

Thanks Tyler! 🤙🤙

*palate

No way.

@@Itsunclegabby “Yes way, Ted!” kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gKmkeKRqysXboGQ.html

You lucky dog. I had 9th row for Grand Rapids MI...the closest tickets I had ever gotten...then covid.. they cancelled. I am still devastated. I have total ticket jealousy of you...

@@Kj-ec7iz Oh no! Sorry to hear that! I really hope that gets to happen for you someday.

Every Tool performance is amazing

You are entirely correct, it is a flanger. I do want to give the guitar some credit too: it is still playing the exact same riff as before the change, butt stopped the palm-muting. Definitely contributes to the "airyness" to let the notes sustain.

Absolutely this !! A more reserved side of Tool , but for good reason. The back to back tracks deal with the passing of Maynard’s mother. The album title “10,000 Days” is actually a reference to the amount of time she spent partially paralyzed after having a stroke. Part 1 is amazing , Part 2 is nothing short of a masterpiece , in my opinion.

I second, third, and fourth this recommendation!! I tear up every time I hear the "Give me my wings" climax in pt.2

Absolutely yes to this!

For this one, lyrics are required

Also, Descending.

Might be two tracks on the CD but it's one piece. But agreed.

@Jen Striker yes, and?

Was going say the same pretty sure uses the pick on everything I have ever watched of him.

@@michaelnorman6905 I think there are literally only 2 tool songs that he doens't use a pick on

@@haydn995 10000 days and?

@@mehavingavietnameseflashba7132 I was going to say undertow the song but Justin wasn't even the bassist

@@michaelnorman6905 He uses his fingers on 10,000 Days only. He uses his fingers for almost the entire song, he gets a pick from his mouth at the climax.

Omg tool fans are so pretentious 😫

@@Pyps0403 go listen to Metallica idiot

Check out Rick Beato, he actually has the master tapes and isolates each guy. Hearing Maynard acapella is a treat!

@@m.94 Nice comeback

@@Pyps0403 It wasn't even serious. Chill. Tons of other things to be pissed off about in the world

You have no clue what you're talking about

There is no comparison. Tool took that song and completely owned it. In particular the instrumental section, which in Zep just feels kind of wayward. Tool honed it down and translated it into their own language: they *composed* it, where Zep was sorta freewheeling ...

He did, go check it out.

@@dmartinez1993 I wrote that a month ago.

@@benjammin7729 hahahah awesome comment im always looking for word like that :D

I finally saw them back in September last year. Was dreaming about seeing them for like 12 years, can’t believe it actually happened, and right before all this bullshit happened. One of the best nights and best concerts I’ve ever had 🥲

I saw them last October for the first time... I'm so glad I got to see them live!

I had tix to see them in Eugene last March, but lockdown happened that day (they played Portland the night before)😓

There was a mistake? I'm no drummer or musician so this is all like magick to me. (Well it is magick, but you know what I mean) I didn't even catch him catching the mistake! 🤣🤣🤣

@@mattwilson8298 He does! Right about the 15 minute mark of Geebz' video. Geebz clearly catches the mistake because he reacts to it (non-verbally). It's easy to miss because Danny is able to just quickly carry on without missing a beat.

Cheeeeeeee!!

And on the 8th God created TOOL

😂

🤘😆 you and I should party

I agree! He’s not God! He’s a semi-God! ❤😎👌😍

YES!! 🤘🖤

I appreciate that

And him and Paul changed bands live and never went back you can see it happen on a early tool live hosted by jesus like 93??

Their Arco Santi show was flawless! I love the record entirely.

Yeah. But every time he hits them in the right spot a black hole is created in another galaxy

Yes- useful background info for him for future reviews of the band, especially as a composer.

That’s amazing

🤙🤙🤙🤙