"I'm not gonna pull out my calculator and start doing math, I'm just gonna enjoy this" So... you decided not to overthink it and overanalyze it, and opted instead to just feel the moment? How fitting lmao 😂

He found the key to youtube comments. Step 1: Find Tool fans Step 2: Ask for an explanation to Lateralus.

Don’t ask us Tool nerds to get into the lyrics. You’ll get College dissertations in the comments. Your instincts are right. Just relax and listen.

“Euphoric Metal” Exactly.

When you listen to Tool, unplug from everything going on in your life and close your eyes and just listen. It is almost a form of meditation. By the end of the song, you would have had an existential conversation with yourself about your life. Tool’s first EP came out in ‘92. I’ve been following since the beginning. So, album wise, 27 years they’ve been around. Enjoy your Tool journey. And you don’t need to understand the complexity of the song, it’s what you take out of it that matters. Cheers 🍻

feebonachee is how you read fibonacci. It's a mathematical sequence that goes 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 and so on, you basically add the last number to the previous one to get the next one. The sylables in the verses go 1 1 2 3 5 8 5 3 and then 5 8 13 Black (1) then (1 white are (2) all I see (3) In my in fan cy (5) etc etc etc

Tool is like the Pink Floyd of this kind of music. It's a journey into the deep.

Tool-the patient I never see anyone suggest this song and it’s one of the best off the lateralus album

Please do Vicarious or Jambi !!! It’s their heavier stuff but holy hell its amazing

This song is simply a masterpiece. In my opinion it's one of best Rock-Songs ever written. Up there with songs like "Stairway To Heaven" and shit like that.

Hope you guys enjoyed! Can’t wait to dig deeper into their discography - hopefully you guys will tag along🤘🏼 #RoadTo50K⭐️

You don't listen to Tool , you experience it. Welcome to the club.

Try The Pot and Vicarious

Watching people discover Tool gives me great pleasure. Realizing they've been missing out on greatness for years and years!

If you want chill go Disposition, Reflection & Triad 22 minutes on the same album need to listen to all three together and you'll get an out of body experience. It's really mellow I listen to these 3 songs almost everyday

It’s such a pleasure seeing newbies react to Tool. Don’t pay attention to that wording it’s too distracting. Just take in the music and enjoy.

The Grudge next song first song on the Lateralus Album

I love the description euphoric metal. You do have to know how to listen. Put in headphones, and focus/relax at the same time. When you know what hes saying, it is a journey. Tool is an experience

This was a great way to listen to TOOL. Let the music roll over you. Keep on diving.

In a way, Tool is the new Pink Floyd. Psychedelic and heavy.

“An absolute journey…” Absolutely. Tool is really getting me through a rough patch right now, and it’s so lovely to share in the reactions and experience with their music.

11:28 After years of drumming I can tell you: This is not a snare. This is a Hi-Hat 😂 But tbh: This isn't as simple as it sounds! The thing is Danny Carey is such an amazing drummer that he can make it SOUND easy

🌀 out! Seems like Tool army has a new member now. Now you have to review every Tool song.

This guy just feel only pure love for tool as I do, is an amazing and a unique band that ever in our lives that won't ever exist again.

I've listened to this song probably a thousand times and I still catch new frequencies and layers and gives me goosebumps. And to truly get the song, lsd and dmt help lol.

This was a good, honest reaction. Proof that even when Tool chooses to be mathematically precise in their execution, you don't need to be tuned in to that wavelength if you don't want to be, just relax and enjoy the ride. I've been a Tool fan since Aenima, but I would strongly recommend 'Reflection'. It's another journey of a song with a strong dynamic that you would enjoy.

This is the quintessential Tool song for me. The suspenseful and dramatic crescendo from chill to epic, Adam's thick-yet-squishy tone, Maynard's intellectual/spiritual/inspirational lyrics and unique vocals, Justin's layered complexity and driving style, Danny's...well, I'm not even worthy to try to describe it. Lateralus also showcases what makes Tool hard to listen to at first but so rewarding to fully unpack - as often as not, the main rhythm is actually the lead guitar and not the percussion. You can tell because the vocal rhythm almost always follows the guitar, not the drums. This is weird, the percussion and bass are normally supporting the main rhythm in most bands while lead guitar plays over the top. If you try to bang your head to the drums while it's playing more like a lead instrument in its own time signature over the top of the rhythm of the guitar and vocals, you will quickly get lost and go WTF?? After about 50 listens to this song you can readily follow both the guitar and drums simultaneously while they are playing different signatures altogether - like they're not even playing the same song - and then they come together at the end for that epic finish...man, it doesn't get any more rewarding listening to music for me. So glad to see you getting into them. Seeing new fans discover them is the closest thing to feeling that sense of discovery myself all over again. Enjoy!

Oh why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill? ...and a TOOL fan is born?

“Euphoric Metal”

The end of this song still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it even 20 years later.

It's great to see Tool attracting a new audience, their music definitely deserves to live on through the generations to come.🙂 Watching your reactions to the song made my day pall👍🏼

I love how now they have lyrics so easily available but back in the day I was literally sitting with my pen and paper trying to decipher tool lyrics😑

Pulled over on the way home to watch this... Its a rabbit hole you will go down, so much to listen to. Enjoy your journey if you continue it, so many tracks to choose from.

The hi hat sounds simple but when you realize everyone is playing in diffrent time signatures but makes it line up it gets more interesting

You get a sub for T00L. Enjoy the rabbit hole...it's a wonderful experience

Thank you for not over-analyzing the song on your first listen. It should just be enjoyed for the first few listens. Even Maynard James Keenan hates talking about the math behind the song, because it's meant to make the song sound better... not to be the focal-point. The whole song is about spiraling out (growing/evolving), and the Fibonacci Sequence is the math that spirals are based on. Also, listen to The Patient from this same album. Amazing song.

Ominous. That's the word I've always used to describe their music. There's an ominous, "gathering storm" energy to their sound. A force beyond your self and you're not sure what it is.

I think you’d really enjoy their double song Parabol/Parabola. It’s certainly an epic and has a a great uplifting meaning. Amazing instrumentals as always. The lyrics are important in most of their songs, but I agree with your method of just listening first and then digging in on subsequent listens.

Welcome to Tool my good sir 🥃🤘🏻 May I recommend the following songs The Pot, Vicarious, Parabol/Parabola, Stinkfist, Schism. IMO top 5 songs to me

Euphoric metal is probably the best Tool explanation I've ever heard! 👍🤘

Ooof "euphoric metal" is a great way to describe it. No other music takes me to places that Tool's does. It has a richness and complexity that I've yet to experience from any other artist. Great reaction video.

THAT WAS AWESOME. THANKS. KEEP DIVING INTO THIS DISCOGRAPHY. THE FIRST EP OPIATE AND THEIR FIRST ALBUM UNDERTOW ARE RAW AND HARD. THE LATER ALBUMS ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE. THEY ARE MY MODERN DAY FLOYD.

The Grudge, Jambi, Right In Two or The Pot are all AMAZING Tool tracks. Gotta check them out man.

Thank you Drew

You should have heard Parabol and Parabola instead. Super mellow and deep at the same time. This song is probably not a great entry point into the music of Tool. Revisit this when you've gotten more familiar with them. Still a nice video. Edit. I should've waited till the end. My bad. You took it well 😉

I loved that, subscribed with faith for other tool reactions

Nice! You should still check out Tool's earliest stuff like Undertow, just to hear their evolution as a band. I think you'd appreciate the more raw Metall-y aggression of the first album.

Sober - tool amazing

Always a pleasure seeing people embrace tool Welcome to the fam

Subbed for the tool ride. Let’s go!

As a diehard Tool fan, the new song, Fear Inoculum, is just as it's supposed to be, you just have to listen to it multiple times for it to get to you. And btw, i love the fact that you kinda paused a couple of times, but after the middle, you didn't, that shows that the song starts catching you. That s the power of progressive, at one point, it sucks you in without knowing.

Euphoric Metal, ha! Love it. Great reaction bro. Keep em coming.

They've been around since the 90s. I remember listening in high school. They really came into their style with the Aenema album, lateralus was a home run, 10000 days was great. So far...hoping Fear will be good

Breaking down Tool's songs and lyrics is a lifelong journey. Even when you do spend time on it, your interpretation may be completely different from someone else's. That's what makes them such an amazing band, they take you places in your own mind that you didn't even know existed. I feel like this song is about the cycle of life from birth to death and pushing the human condition beyond what it has been before. We take what people have done before us, and build on it to create something new. Welcome to the fold, my friend. Spiral out.

you are hilarious! i needed that laugh thank you. i said the same thing when i read their stuff but now im hooked i need a daily Tool fix every day!

The Grudge and Parabol&Parabola, next please! Welcome to Tool=GOAT!!

The Pot would be a good one to check out. It's probably the singers' most impressive performance; and the message is great. It's also one of their 'heavier' tracks and the bass and drums go off.

"I'm not gonna pull out my calculator and start doing math, I'm just gonna enjoy this" The funny thing is that the inner message in this song is that one, yes it has complexity but you don'y need to dig that deep to understand, just enjoy the music, just like you realized at 8:50 .

I'm happy you come to embrace the face value my friend great video on innoculum can't wait to see this one😁🤙

Toolsexual here. I appreciate your reaction without even watching. Thank you.

Best band ever!! Happy you reviewed this magnificent album!!! Love that got comfy with your blanky 😂😂😂😂😂

There's a video on the maths of laterals that explains it clearly. There's also an alternative albus song order along the lines of the fibonacci sequence too. Agree with your conclusion too, the best way to listen to Tool is to lie down in a pitch black room and listen to the entire album... LOUD

Aaw Tool! Saw em in Lisbon in July just gone! absolute class

Dude, I love how humble and transparent you are in your reviews. I'm 46 and have been into Tool from the beginning. It's fantastic that "my" band, after such a long hiatus, is back and so well-received by a whole new generation! It gives me hope. haha. ;) Seriously though, you've got me as a subscriber.

Good reaction. Much of this album fits your apt description of euphoric metal.

Next has to be "The Grudge". In my opinion Tool's all time masterpiece.

Tool is so dynamic that you can chill and listen, get hype and listen, sleep and listen, fuckin be dead and listen and you'll still enjoy their music.

YOU DID IT THANK YOU 💓💓💓💓

Spot on with your Label of Euphoric Metal! By far my favorite band because I hear something different every time I listen to them. That is musical genius!

I’ll stay around for more tool man🤘

You did it just right man. Wrapped in a blanket or scribbling on a pad there is no wrong way to enjoy tool.

Nice to welcome another convert 😄❤️

Very good review,man!! You described it perfectly when you said its uforic metal👌👌 Well done with the video👍 You've got a new subscriber😉

You'r in for a treat my friend. Enjoy Tool. ❤

Lateralus is Tools album of cerebral experience if that's a way to explain it in short. 10,000 days is the album after it and it's the most emotional one. The album before lateralus Aenima is more metal and also has a couple of songs where Maynard in one song expresses his absolute hatred of the then LA era, Tool is from Las Angelos at stuff like a real metal disstrack(?), Aenima is special, the theme of the Album is spirituality. Undertow is the album before Aenima and that's deffintly Tool in their younger days, with more rage. Then there is Saliva which is their "live only" album. Which is amazing. You don't need drugs to enjoy Tool, it could deffintly help you just space out though if you do LSD and then listen to lateralus (the whole album) by yourself in a calm room.

listening again, feels like a brand new time seeing this, and hearing this. thanks internet!!! (al gore, excelsior!)

man i still feel it move across my skin and get goosebumps everytime I hear that guitar start bending.

Yay! More TOOL! I’m sticking around to see you discover more 😊 Ps. The Fibonacci sequence can be found in nature. For me I have never really followed the mathematical part of it other than to know that when written out as a picture it forms a spiral which can be found in everything (snails, etc). Which in essence is the natural scientific symmetry if that makes any sense. It’s actually quite beautiful if you spend a few minutes reading up on it. Edit: hence the reference to swinging on the spiral 💛

I'm straight edge and fucking love Tool

Annnnnnnd he's hooked. Dive deep in that rabbit hole man it's deep but worth the journey.

The next Tool reaction should be Right In Two as the drum break in the song symbolizes the evolution of war. This is a song that’ll make you appreciate Danny Carey, the drummer, even more!

i would label them as alternative progressive metal, they've gotten more progressive with each album... pure genius band and all members are equally as important as each other but Danny is another level respect :)

TOOL army here , blowing your comments up !!!! Subbed and Liked for MORE TOOL !!! ASAP :)) Thanks

Next year, Danny will have been their drummer for *thirty* years

tool still my fav band of all over the time...just amazing band

Keep on with the lyric-videos because tools lyrics are amazing. Just as the music. Tool is always making me relaxed and when I listen to them it feels like someone is tickling my brain haha! Some great songs to react to: Parabol, Parabola, Schism, The Pot, Sober

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Black (1) then (1) White are (2) all I see (3) In my infancy (5) Red and yellow then came to be (8) reaching out to me (5) lets me see (8) Each line's syllables add to to the previous two lines before it (1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5 and so on) The next verse goes up to 13 before it spirals back to 5. Good to see youngens getting into Tool. Most of these songs were made before you were born, and that's perfectly fine! I wish I could relive Tool for the first time. Can't wait for that new album!

You’re on the right path...welcome brother!

Their song Rosetta Stoned(2006) is 20 minutes long and the epitome of an adventure. Very powerful song. Check it out. Enjoyed your reaction man.

React to GOJIRA! I suggest to begin with Stranded, Flying Whales and Silvera. If you enjoy them, I think you'll enjoy everything they have to offer!

Watching you discover Tool reminds me of when I discover Floyd. Floyd was before my time but it was a wonderful journey. Enjoy!!! Haven't seen these songs mentioned by others but I would recommend diving into 46 and 2 and also H.

Stinkfist, the opening track from Tools second album Aenima, was the song that made Tool a household name in the music world. Tool generally always likes to close their concerts with this song. Highly recommended for beginners of Tool music :)

Keep up the chill listens

That’s it...close the eyes n ride the waves.......

Keep up the good work bro I love slipknot I love tool keep it up man much love ❤️

My fav tool song

Dude you know what, 'euphoric metal' is genuinely the most beautiful way I've heard to describe Tool's music, great shout.

Euphoric Metal

In 96 I was 14 when aenima came out. Sometime over that next year I heard aenema on the radio. Absolutely blew my mind. Although the message of that song comes from a bill hicks comedy routine, it still resonates for sure. And the structure and execution of that song to me is the mission statement of tool.

They can be a bit hard to listen to sometimes, but if you do it your own way and dont stress the songs, you will probably have a great time. You will most likely enjoy Tools popular songs like the grudge, ticks and leeches, sober, 10.000 days and so on. Have fun!