DeadEndKing Relatable.

Lol right

DeadEndKing A more truer statement has never been said.

Truth.

Fuck yes Lateralus.

PC LOAD LETTER True that.

Exactly. I researched it before I'd gotten halfway through the first time I'd heard the song...years ago. Your comment should've been pinned.

"...These are the cries of the carrots..." *points up...

@John Burton - mind you, I'm just being an ass...

@coleaddison You being sarcastic?

@John Burton and touched on by Tool in Descending

Oleksandr Milkovskyi same.

Im here to watch the same haha

Same here.. 😂

same!! So great to see them progressively become TOOL fans

Same

Than* and not any of us. lol

Well I was like 13 when it came out

True dat.

To be fare. When we first heard it when it first came out. We didnt have the lyrics like they do. So we played and repeated it 100s of times to catch every meaning.

When this came out I was well read on Kafka, Jung, and understood DNA ref, but I was a teenage nerd...but I got it immediately... Maynerd became a kindrid spirit, because I was like holy hell he reads what I read!

I don't get to see it happen often enough with open ears

Drea Marie Bermea Garner I love how my 57 year old brother shakes his head at the music I still listen to at 47. I put The Pot on and he suddenly likes Tool. So much for his theory that I need to "grow up".

It took me 2 years to convince my older brother to listen to Tool. One listen to The Grudge and he was hooked. Now he feels stupid about not giving them a go earlier. We all find things in our own time, I guess.

Right there with you man

We can listen together :(

Yes

Absolutely

Everyone is a tool fan, they just don't know it yet. What it takes to step through...

They helped guide me on my Tool journey. I will forever love them both for that.

You could see the metamorphosis change their opinion. Pun intended.

Hahaha...awesome.

Ha! I love it. My son who's a jr. We call him John-john. And with Parabola, he though it went: ".....all this pain is an illu-john-john" He loved it he called it the "my name song"

evilnaturedrobots I heard my six year old son one day singing at the top of his lungs “my shadowah” 😂. Your comment made me laugh hard.

my little brother, at the time, asked me the same question?😂

Do you evah playah them sum Metallica?

Aurthur Fuddyduddy or 12 years lol! That's if the new record comes out next year... which it had better! Being a Tool fan is glorious, but difficult at times; it requires patience.

Yep sums it up.

Yep

Wait.. Have you heard a Tool album that i haven't? 😋😋

Aurthur Fuddyduddy Hell yeah we wait

BoilerBloodline second only to Neal Pert

Correction-Danny Carey is the greatest drummer of all time.

BoilerBloodline top 5 deffently

Rush sucks, so nah

I agree with OP! Definitely my favourite of all time.

Perfect description

A rabbit hole full of fibonacci sequences, junk dna & harmonic melodic r-evolutions. Drink & Eat Alice. You're in Tool's Wonderland now. The fact that the drummer can even play the insane fibonacci rythmns (& create the vocals on top of that!) is so next level it's mind-boggling. There a great KZfaq video that dissects the song in comparison to the Fibonacci sequence & only then did their mastery over all of their instruments become so apparently. You literally hear their genius growing, expanding, pulsing + throbbing, sweating + bleeding all the way thru thier song Lateralus - from beginning to end. It's 6minutes of symphonic harmony 🤩 The previous commentor said it best; "you don't analyze Tool. Tool analyzes you!"👍

Add a little psilocybe and you're off to the races.

Absofuckinglutely

You have them confused with Pink Floyd.

Hell yea well said man

100%

Well said sir. Spot on.

@Kirk S. Manmade ules are made to be broken...Gods rule stands supreme...if hes white and hispanic....hes white and hispanic..

@Kirk S. Sure buddy...but ill settle for recognizing a man for his character...rather than superficial characteristics... That is gods rule...

Haha! Perfect!

Love this song!!!

"I don't know what it was but I liked it" - That's what she said! ~Michael Scott

"I don't know what it was but I liked it!" Every young man's/boy's reaction to seeing a naked girl for the first time.

haha... this wins youtube.

It’s about cocaine.

Takes a brilliant mind to catch the meaning even after ten plus listens. I've been listeny to this since it was released and only within the last few years have discovered Jungian Psychology

He was still wrong though .

@jeff5411 Yea but he has understanding. We all have to go through this mental breakdown to understand tool. It's deep my dude no doubt.

ara03aml - I have to say that Friedl in PC is definitely amazingly well. The kid has a security about him. Live show was amazing recently, he just pierced right through me. Healed.

His kit and how damn good he is with it proves that.

E V E R

Have you heard the drummer from winery dogs he's actually getting together with Geddy Lee and Alex from Rush after they break up or so they say honestly that sounds f****** fantastic I'm a big Neil Peart fan he's also considered one of the best drummers out there but I think that the drummer from winery dogs is slightly better I know I'm going to get flak from every Rush fan out there but keep in mind I noted Neil is one of the best I thought he was the top dog before I saw the drummer for winery dogs but yeah Danny is pretty damn good and one of my favorites

@@buddybluegaming3222 The drummer from Winery Dogs is Mike Portnoy (ex Dream Theater) That guy is one of the best drummers of all time...

joolat bingo. Alot of it comes from Carl Jung psychology. Jung was a student of Frued but he took a very different approach.

yes sir!

Plants have 46 chromosomes

Got em!!!!

joolat I never knew that!!!! Thanks for the info my husband and I our huge fans of tool!!!!

I’d say with bands like Tool and Kyuss it’s best to just listen to the music and just pick up the bits of the lyrics that sound badass... then again I really like the way these guys breakdown the lyrics. But bands like this (Tool and Kyuss) which are musicians music I might suggest just focusing on the instrumentation.

Also you gotta pay attention to the tiny details, that really makes a difference

Yeah, I think it makes a BIG difference listening with a good headset or audio system, will pick up more little beats and tones, almost sounds like a different song sometimes

what are you talking about?The lyrics in Tool are some of the greatest ever and have multiple levels of meanings,not many bands can do that.A band is about the whole,not just parts,maybe some instrumental post rock is more your thing.

TooL can't really be picked into 'songs' ÆNIMA is a whole, it's meant to be heard from Stinkfist to Third Eye, non stop. LOUD The album does the work, you want it to never end. Lateralus even more so, I think. Great artists and their gear layin down awesome sound. Ballpark? Summer? 2019? WWWWHHHEEEEENNNNN??????? ha

Haha same thought

Haha! I had the same thought, when he said that. "Just wait Ryan". lol

It's actually alot the start of Eulogy . Dunt dunt, dunt dunt he had a lot to say...

Matt ADorno i was even thinking the intro to sober. dun dun. dun dun.

Yeah, that was a dead ringer for the intro to Sober!

If you don't air drum to Danny Carey's solo are you even listening correctly?

No. You are not.

I swear. If you don’t make the same face George was making, every time, go see a doctor.

Stank face!

I love how he called the sweet fills right before the breakdown "the breakdown" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 just give him a sec George!! He's just warming up!

Jonathan Walker I couldn't agree more. Most Tool songs as a matter of fact.

Absolutely. 🖤

Jonathan Walker honestly i wish i could hear sober and schism and this for t he first time

Jonathan Walker yes mind blown all over again

amandaaa you are fiiiiiiine

Yes, they basically discovered themselves what Shadow in Jung's thought is

Perfect answer!

yeah and 46 and 1 extra chromosome results in downs syndrome...maybe half a step towards human mental evolution n so causing a condition that we "normal" people see as a deficiency or a disorder by birth...tho downs syndrome kids have shown amazing qualitys but they are slow n percieve the world diferently than us which we dont understand n so their slow progress in the world us 46 chromosomes have built n regulated is seen as retardation...so maybe he thinks 46 and 2 could be the next full step to mental evolution...

Probably the best explanation here.

agree 100% with this comment.

Irony: The "woke" folks most likely hate this band.

@@Silence_Duder_Gooder cultural appropriation comes to mind

the whole song does that, no? I think the base of the riff stays the same, but speed and tone evolve into a harder rhythm. I thought I read that it was the same throughout.

Welcome to the rabbit hole, my friend. A song about evolving that evolves -- (head explodes)!!

The part that really drives home the metamorphosis for me is (and I’m unsure of how to describe it right now), is when Adam Jones’ guitar effect just sonically swells open approaching that crescendo. I always key in to that when I listen to this tune. It’s wonderfull

Jeffery Tucker Well said, I feel most people seem to forget that, yes there will always be themes and interpretations that will be the true ones, but there is going to always more things that can be interpreted differently based on how you personally view it

Ron Balch they should do a full series of analyzing 1 whole Tool album

Ron Balch Lateralus might melt their brain

Definitely a lot going on in that album, pretty sure they would love it start to finish.

Mostly the Jungian shadow in this one.

Ron Balch that's what's great about Maynard because the way he words things could be taken in different ways like different observer interpretations, it means different things to different people like this song 46 and 2 is talking about chromosomes but if you were 46 and 2 you would have down syndrome but they are the most awesome people! I saw a race where people with down syndrome were running and one of them fell but the other people in the race stopped and picked him up and they all crossed the finish line together, they all win! Imagine if everyone thought that way! We would live in a lovely peaceful world for sure. Picking his scabs is talking about remembering things he might have done bad in his life or ways he was treated that made him sad or feel bad and he's feeling upset about it. The shadow is kind of like the ego that's making him remember things that upset him and he's stepping through it, he's releasing those feelings so he can move forward in his own personal evolution. He's shedding skin like a reptilian and becoming new. He's digging through his muscles for a clue of what he needs to release in order to move forward in his evolution, you have to release what's bad in order to make room for more good. Crawling on his belly feeling emotionally upset and clearing out old thoughts and regrets of what could have happened or what could have been. He's been wallowing in his own confused and insecure delusions to find something that would help him remember things he may have forgotten or hiding to help guide or cross him through the shadow. He wants to feel the goodness coming in when he releases everything from his shadow aspect. Change is coming through his shadow because he's doing the work to release it. The shadow is a unconscious complex that is defined as repressed and surpressed aspects of the conscious self. There are constructive and destuctive types of the shadow. Carl jung said it is important to be aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness, lest one project these attributes onto others. humans deal with the reality of the shadow aspect in 4 ways: denial, projection, integration and or transmutation. There are 3 diffent kinds of humans, meaning they perceive the one reality in 3 different ways interpreted differently, 1st kind has a composition of 42 and 2, they comprise a unity consciousness that does not see anything outside themselves as being separate from themselves, to them there is only one energy one life one beingness that moves everywhere anything happening anywhere is also within them like cells in a body, they are connected to a single consciousness that moves through everything, these are the aborigines is Australia and might be a few African tribes as well, the second is 44 and 2 chromosomes and it is in disharmony and is used as a stepping stone from the 42 and 2 to get to the next level of 46 and 2 and the 2 additional chromosomes changes everything. He's saying join in my child the child aspect in him, something must have happened to him when he was a child now his shadow is moving close to meaning, he's remembering that something happened to him in his childhood. Change is coming through now and now it is his time to listen to his muscle memory and contimplate what he has been holding on to, like is this worth keeping in my experience or not. He chooses to live and grow to take and give, experiencing life lessons ect... what ever it takes just to step through it all. See his shadow changing stretching up and over him, he's getting rid of it. Soften the old armor, he's letting his defences get a little softer and vulnerable. He hopes he can clear everything out and everything will be better by stepping through his shadow because even though it was tramatic things to release, there is still a false sense of security to hold on to them.

eliteaviator I was at my first command in the Navy, and when I first bought it I didn’t like it and set it away. Then one evening I was painting miniatures for warhammer 40k and put it on. Next thing I know I was listening to it to fall asleep to while on deployment. The emotional rollercoaster of the entire album would smash me to sleep

Every single time I hear it I get chills and the music develops more.

Same, got me running through their older music. Remember being scared of the video for Sober as a little kid, so this album was my first intentional exposure to Tool.

Not of the past 20 years, EVER!

Lmao saaaaame!! Just wait guys!

LE TONGUE

Samuel Campbell Literally commenting this while I’m at their concert (during the intermission). So good

They're very by the book and formal these days. Wish I could've seen them in the early years instead of later.

Agreed.. One of the best shows I've ever seen, (twice)... A Perfect Circle's show was another one of the best I've attended...

4 TIMES/ three states

The first time I saw them OSSEOUS LABRINTH WAS CONTORTING GIRAFFE WALK, Gordion knot, just incredible! The second time was with opener Fantomas( Mike Patton). OMG ! What a show The third was a 4 1/2 hr drive alone to Boston wher Isis opened up PUMPED the whole way home. The forth time I went to Neark and was almost killed long story but turned out ok

Dave Barnum my feelings exactly

Dave Barnum me too lol

It's so crazy to think about the music that was coming out during that time and then there is Tool....waaaay ahead of their time and timeless at that.

That was me in the early 80's listening to Metallica

BadBeattie Nirvana, AIC, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden..then Tool. The first time I heard Sober was like the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit..I literally pulled off to the side of the road because I was blown away by what I was hearing. It's been a long time since I've heard a new song that impacted me like that.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Yeah they put thought into this stuff.

Agreed.

I agree. These dudes are great.

grizzlednutz But I’m a vampire... in the club 😂🧛🏻‍♂️

This!

Harold Penismen holy shit it's Harold penisman!

To break down one tool song on the entire album,, ha! They got a Grammy for their packaging for 10,000 days. Because it is a whole package! Sell yourself short, break down one song on lateralus, jokes on u! Haha

Just adding to comment above. The shadow self is your ego, the part of yourself that isn't you but is a piece of armor made by us in order to survive in society. In order for us to have not only a physical evolution but also a spiritual one you have to accept and love even the parts of yourself that you hate (picking his scabs). 46&2 is also referring to chromosomes in the human body. Much more that could be added but you get the idea. Subbed btw

You said it, Huge Maynard lover here! I researched this a long time ago and it's nice to see I wasn't the only one to know this :)

Humans have 44, and 2 chromosomes.

Derek Faughn correct sir. Evolution from 44and 2 to 46 and 2. Ur dna

Tool fans are on point here :)

just went back to this review after watching the latest Sober reaction - that's some Back to the Future shit ;)

Jason Shimmell THIS

This isn't Soviet Russia

Or is it? No absolute truths man.

Lmao

I need multiple likes on this comment!!

Based on interviews with MJK it is absolutely true. That is not to say I'm not aware of and don't agree with the generally accepted meaning of the song. A lyricist is always coming from a place, but MJK has made it clear on multiple occasions that he aspires for and intends the etherial.

@ Stark Jamie- "He actually stands at the back of the stage." Unfortunately yes, he does that now. Back in the early shows he was one of the most charismatic and amazing live performers. Had never seen anything like it. Like he was possessed and did things with his body that looked inhuman. Brought the music to new levels. Now he just stands in the back. Personally don't see why anyone would see them live now. A nice light show?

it's the danny carey show. i'm completely bias as a drummer. and they've evolved quite a bit. Opiate and Undertow would have made no sense with him in the back. Trust me, I remember the days of painted up and wearing bras! it's also interesting that as he's gone to the back in Tool and APC - even to some degree in Puscifer - he has the most public persona he's ever had with respect to interviews about music and wine. He's a conundrum for sure.

Yea, that's for sure. I never really followed APC or Puscifer. Didn't do anything for me.

Stark Jamie- I agree 100%

Isn't wonderful🥰

I can't wait to vicariously enjoy them listening to Vicarious.

@@sv8945 Fck! How did I miss that!🤣

Imagine me frustrated with myself after discovering them only THIS YEAR

This is accurate. Evolving into our better selves. He's talking about progressing into better humans. Shed our insecurities and delusions, look at reality more objectively and honestly.

The shadow is referencing his own ego

And cue the dual vision lenses through the one eye song art. :D

No we are currently 46. 23 from each parent. 2 is the future to a total of 48.

This evolution is based off of his journey through his shadow (the side of your conscious self, existing in your subconscious that you don't want to accept) according to Jungian psychology. There are 4 stages of interaction with one's Shadow. I could go deeper into it but wikipedia has a great entry on all of it. These two guys got it from the lyrics though, it definitely creates an interest to learn the specifics of the lyrics more for me. Very interesting.

Your fucking stoned!! This is the worse band ever!!!

Tool is amazing

They are the best band but because people like these morons putting it down don't realize the deep meaning behind the truthof the songs 46&2 is about the difference of the human chromosome and how we need to evolve our minds as a species.

john natter Floyd level.

Agreed

Also, I saw a lot of other good comments better explaining the shadow

Great explanation there mate!

Adam Smith

In the Old Testament part of the Bible. 46:2 is the tearing away of the crust (scales and scabs) of the earth to dig into the core and create anew. Think about this, perhaps God Created Evolution. The Bible says he did... or could have.

Aaron A. Foster The bible says all kinds of dumb shit we know isn't true.

30 years????? they have not been around for 30 years.

Ok should have said 25.

Google mang! Its all there for you!

No need to figure anything out. Whats it mean to you tho? No one can change that.

Lol

finally someone comments that knows what 46&2 represent.

😂😂😂😂

Best comment on the internet

David Fawcett amen ! Tool is my "church"

This song really did change my way of looking at life after listening to the lyrics.

David Fawcett Bro, well said!

757reaper I thought the EXACT same thing. I didn’t have lyrics or the internet when this song first came out but they at least had lyrics and NAILED the single fundamental message....evolution

It isn't vague at all, though? If you listen to the lyrics and know anything about the DNA of humans, it is easy to conclude that two and two is four.

CyanideGirl94 well it's better to assume that the things you know arent common knowledge. I've learned alot about these songs from the comments on here. I just knew I liked the songs. But they had a deeper understanding on their first listen through than me on my probably 400th listen. Just because they stopped to analyze.

Chase Rankin Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I just assumed it would be common knowledge, as you said, but if it isn't it really should be. I mean, we as humans, commit to memory some of the dumbest things. Like who Kim K fucked in that video forever ago, or who Brad Pitt is married to, but we tend to lose the knowledge that can actually mean the most. Not to be insensitive or anything, because I also know several utterly useless facts, but i just wish as a whole humans cared about more important things. And now im done getting deep on ya, lol.

757reaper I was impressed too.

Stargazer by Rainbow is also something that needs to happen.

Humans have 23 pairs, we're already at 46. The next step is to 48. I'm just trying to clarify, it seems there are many folks who have 0 clue what's going on with this song, album, artist, or the idea itself. I'm glad they picked up the evolution bit on a 1st listen. I love they're open minded approach to other genres of music.

Josh Lydon 44 + 2 = 46, or 23 pairs.

DevilsAdvocate For sure. What I would give to have my musical memory erased and rediscover this amazing band again

feel the samw lol, such a nice feeling

I wish I had never heard it so that I could go back and hear it for the first time again.

Same.

The perfect response to hearing your first Tool song is "I don't know what I just heard but I like it" great video guys

Homeless Jedi also the mentioning of the Shadow, and the chaotic snake that "crawls on its belly"

The potatoes are what we strive to become.

Asher McKay Why do we want to be potatoes??

Thanks so much for the explanation bcu I never had any idea. Cocaine sounded like a good answer to me lol!!

I can't wait for them to get into a deep dive on how much of this song is about the complex works of Carl Jung, only to re-listen to the song and get blown away by the composition of the music itself when they stop focusing on the lyrics. Welcome to Tool, boys!

wow, I never thought of it this way...

reaching out to me (5) let's me see (3)

Dennis Lopez true good correction will fix now 🙂

circle VIII Maynard was on the Joe Rogan podcast (excellent btw) and talks about this song in detail along w/ the Fibonacci sequence, really good stuff.

46&2 is my fav, Lateralus is great when i first heard about that fibonacci sequence thing my mind was blown and listened to nothing other than that song for 2 weeks

James T yeah, I thought it was kinda a jab at the thin layer between human and animals

James T humans are more evolved than other primates so maybe we will lose chromosomes

A potato has more chromosomes than us sooo...

Take that up with Carl Jung. It's was his theory not mine.

Carl Jung's theory not mine. And evolution doesn't state things are more or less evolved, there is no end goal. Its just a way of accounting for variation in life forms.

Also just happen to came across this, recommended by a friend and fellow Tool fan. I had the same feeling being taken back to the first time I heard this song. Big smiles :D

Wow. That was a great watch guys. Reliving vicariously through you the first time I heard this gem was a joy. The interpretation of the lyrics was spot on - it's about evolution and stepping into a new way of thinking and being.. If you research into the number of chromosomes in the human dna you can interpret the reasoning behing the title. Brilliant work

Tim Lunceford been listening to them for over 2 yrs, seems I still find and here new things to this day!!

Yeah, I've been a Tool fan for many many years and their musical abilities are just outstanding. However, it IS an acquired taste. It isn't for everyone, BUT that is what makes music great. There is always something for everybody.

Tim Lunceford I meant 20 yrs lol not 2. Still remember the day back in 92 or 93 that my friend fb popped in tool cassette into my chevelle!! Mind was instantly blown

Ahh Lateralus... LOVE that album! Yeah, I was a freshman in college in 92-93 and that was the first time I heard Tool. I was instantly hooked!

Tim Lunceford yeah, I had primus frizzle fry playing, so he took that tape and I took his opiate. He got hooked on primus and me on tool. Great memory

we know now that we technically have 48 chromosomes. 2 sets are fused. the connecting telomeres are deactivated as is the extra centromere region

The fused chromesones also prove evolution is true not intelligent design it was a great discovery.

Kodanikage yeah, for real

I am curious to know their reaction to the meaning behind 46 &2 as well as their reaction to discovering how complicated their music is.

The shadow self is also a very strong Jungian notion, and the incorporation of the shadowself into the dominate consciousness is a very big part of his work. When one incorporates the shadow, one becomes a whole person, and not before.

Amen brother! I hope they put out a reaction vid for Lateralus. Epic!!

Thier minds will fuckin melt

Dude 271db they jus posted their review

You'll dig their other clips, especially Megadeth Holy Wars and Metallica Master of Puppets!

nEdra gUnn yeah this is actually really deep and complex meaning, I love Maynard's lyrics always!

46+2 Chromosomes

Carl. your boy

EXACTLY Aaron, Sax, Flavio & Esteban, EXACTLY! Such a good read, I really believe that we can evolve mentally and the physical will follow if we stay true to ourselves mentally.

Can't really say that's the "next" step in our evolution since an extra pair of chromosomes wouldn't make us "more" evolved. Chimpanzees have 46+2...heck, by that logic, dogs are more evolved because they have 76+2. :P

clementine yu. Yes! #2 to Right In Two IMO

its not enough I need more

Stinkfist, one of my favorite intros and songs, I just recommended this one on their Gojira video

Yes the sure the f@#k would. I think they would everything by Tool. Greatest band of all time. Long live Maynard The Great

Definitely agree to this one. Great groove. And the lyrics are a lot of fun to dissect (raunchy on the surface but a pretty real commentary on society.)

the pot maybe...

I have now watched about 6 or 7 of their videos and I really appreciate how they dig into the lyrics even on the songs that they don't enjoy. Several of their comments are insightful.

Really not as metal as what they've been listening to, but yeah.

Ramfjordinho Certainly a controversial topic

what567 yep lol

Definitely!!! Danny Carey is a god!!

The bass on every Tool song is also friggin incredible.

Danny Carey is the best drummer alive.

Aenima has my favorite drumming of all time, when it goes into that triplet sounding section thing, gives me goosebumps

drkangel1134 all of their albums are older albums

But some are indeed newer.

That really had to be explained?

kraemer825 indeed our next step of evolution is hiding beneath our shadows. Do your shadow work daily.

there you go!

You got it. Evolution. You two are a delightful.

3 different kinds of people 42 + 2, 44 + 2, 46 + 2 chromosomes. evolution takes us from 42 to eventually 46...or something along those lines, only read a little bit on it. The Shadow represents the bad side of you, when you strip away all that holds us back i.e. Ego, pride you strip away the shadows and eventually once that process is complete you get to 46 ? Or something, like I said, no expert...

Incorrect. The correct answer is Led Zeppelin or Rush.

Incorrect? John Bonham and Neil Peart are great drummers, legendary drummers no doubt but to discredit Danny Carrey simply for "reasons" is pretty short sighted and fairly pretentious of you. I personally don't care for Rush, at all.....but Neil and the entire band are great musicians, I'd never deny that, I just don't care for their music. Danny Carey is a great drummer.

Danny plays different time signatures with each limb, just listen to Rosetta stoned, if there’s any drummer to challenge Neil at the throne, it’s Danny, the man is an odd time signature god

Adam Ali was jut out to say this. Carey can do anything more typical drummers can do AND master his on off beat style.

Adam Ali I saw tool with Meshuggah. It was drum porn all night

Oh gosh yes. Heck most any Opeth would be perfect for that, The Drapery Falls is another that’s extremely progressive and constantly changes it up. Legends

Oh man Porcupine Tree! Second and/or First favorite band besides 🔧. Depedent upon the album. They were on point though about the evolution part...and discarding the built up "armor" we have, and allowing ourselves to step through so to speak and see the shadow and allow it to step through. It's of course cryptic and somewhat metaphorical.

Opeth are also great...lol and well, probably no need for me to mention anything since you know Porcupine Tree. The connection between them.

Opeth - THE LOTUS EATER!!!!!

Bump dis

just what i was gonna say! i hope they see this

That is corrrrrreeeect!

Finally lol someone gets it

Since yours is the best explanation of the title, I'll just quote wikipedia for the the Shadow: In Jungian psychology, the "shadow", "Id", or "shadow aspect/archetype" may refer to (1) an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself, or (2) the entirety of the unconscious, i.e., everything of which a person is not fully conscious. In short, the shadow is the "dark side".

stephen senger exactly why they don't sell single songs on iTunes. They are an album band. Please don't listen to one song. You have to hear the whole album to get them.

Yeah, not everybody gets the chromosome reference or the deeper levels of a lot of things really...

And that's especially true when it comes to music.

10,000 Days is good but it's their worst album, imo.

shawnoooooify I dunno, man. Undertow is my personal fave. I feel like they get better with each album. Aenima was great, but to me, after Lateralus, seemed like a transition to the epic-ness. at any rate, any Tool album should be played from beginning to end. it is a cohesive statement.