

When the track opens….you are smacked with the pain and you truly feel it. The pained expressiveness of the voice permeates your entire body. The vocal is far removed from the song…seeming to be way in the back and taking sometime to actually reach your ears. Useful Idiot-Building and building until you fear you may very well lose your mind this is just an interlude that leads to….Ĥ6 & 2-A really pleasant and accessible intro to the song…the guitars are really nice and you get teases of what the song may become. It’s dark and heavy enough to really lose yourself in.
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There are many moods and ebbs on this track…as most of Tool songs are full of. Sometimes Maynard reminds me of Jethro Tull…lol. There are huge crashes and promises of things to come that fall way for a gentle and intense vocal that leads the song into the journey and body of the work. H-For me, this is much more accessible right from the onset. Finally by the 2 1/2 minute mark we get the formulation of a song…that is full of incredibly emotive vocals and huge power chords…why all of the bull shit to get there though? The voice ebbs and flows with added effects and reverb….but it is not a bad song…but what is 8 minutes could have been 3. I love the energy….and the quirky mood swings.Įulogy-Annoying toy piano sounds and odd breaths seem to open this track….it takes so long to form I find it easy to lose attention and am distracted by the acid like sounds of what is supposed to be a song.

I love the vocal that is on this album….it really opened up a sound for many bands that still follow the recipe to this day…a nice clean vocal followed by a distorted type of chorus. I have never been the biggest Tool fan in the world…but I try to be objective. Stinkfist-The sounds of this release….really have ‘experimental’ written all over it. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart upon its initial release, selling 148,000 copies in its first week. It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA on March 4, 2003. The album appeared on several lists of the best albums of 1996, including that of Kerrang! and Terrorizer. The title track won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1998. In 2003, Ænima was ranked the sixth most influential album of all time by Kerrang!.

The album was produced by David Bottrill. The album was recorded and cut at Ocean Way, Hollywood and The Hook, North Hollywood from 1995 to 1996. It was released in vinyl format on September 17, 1996, and in compact disc format on October 1, 1996, through Zoo Entertainment. Ænima ( / ˈ ɒ n ɪ m ə/) is the second studio album by American rock band Tool. The relationship between the band and today’s music industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship, and the band’s insistence on privacy. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued, with Lateralus (2001) and the most recent album, 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim, and commercial success around the world.ĭue to Tool’s incorporation of visual arts and very long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and art rock. The band emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first studio album, Undertow (1993), and later became a dominant act in the alternative metal movement, with the release of their second album, Ænima in 1996. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries. Justin Chancellor has been the band’s bassist since 1995, replacing their original bassist Paul D’Amour. Formed in 1990, the group’s line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California.
