Absolutely Brilliant

What can I say? I really do not know how to desribe this album. It has so many different levels and parts I can't even begin to desiphre it. I will say that it is an extremely good album. I have this and Aenima and have heard undertow once or twice. And I can say that this is most likely the best Tool album so far. I really enjoy falling asleep to this album because it gives you a whole new perspective on the songs and they're different parts. It's a cd you have to listen to as a whole to enjoy fully so don't skip any tracks. I suggest, no, I'm TELLING you to get this cd, unless there is something wrong with you, you will enjoy this cd.

Lateralus

This is my favorite cd by Tool. I have everything they put out but listen to this more than the others. That's because I am a fan boy lol. That review by Sol cracked me up. He is so far above being a fan boy that he has to come on a public forum and announce how he doesn't try to decipher the lyrics but even so he knows what Tool's purpose is. You're pretty funny, hoping your day job has nothing to do with being able to write something that is believable because if it is well you will have to be comedian and we can be pretty sure you couldn't do that. Oh the album, this is Tool's best album overall. Danny puts his best drumming performances on this album, as mentioned by others, very tribal sounding. Almost like someone made a robot and gave it Brazillian blood. Maynard's vocals show the effect that A Perfect Circle had on his voice, more softer parts than usual and it's in between Gilmour of Floyd and Geddy Lee of Rush. Guitar and bass really are heavy in most of this cd. Something like in between a really big train and a really big airplane taking off. It is kind of noisy but all you do is turn the volume down, sheesh or get better speakers. I recommend that everyone buy all of Tool's cds. Don't forget the Salival live cd and dvd. So what exactly do the lyrics mean? Let me think, hmm, that MJK pulled the best April Fools prank in a long time? Nah that's not it. That it doesn't matter because Tool, non-fan boy, "fans" are really intelligent and prove it by writing a review for this website without getting paid, which constitutes, "selling-out" (constituted by the fact that you review a cd then rip the fans just so you can tell your friends to go read your review), hmm or maybe the lyrics are about personal issues and thoughts, that are meant to be taken differently by each listener? Ding-ding-ding, show me my prize. Listen everyone, joking aside, if you don't have this cd and are here checking out Tool and have an interest in them, then I recommend it, it really is my favorite of Tool cds though I love Undertow as well. I also love Aenima and Opiate and Salival, oh well, any of them would fit in your hard rock collection all of them would fit even better. Very few bands in the music world today that play their instruments as well as Tool does, really I don't think any do, not even Dream Theater. This is hard rock, not metal, it's more Rush than Black Sabbath but has both in the equation. Plain and simple, it's the best cd by the best band in the world. Label me a fan boy, seeing as how I have been a writer for a major Tool website for 6 years now, it's a label that probably fits, though, I'm not under 13 and not legally a boy anymore, haven't been legally a boy since the early 90's. I think it makes me just a big fan. Too bad others have to justify their own knowledge of a band by putting others down. Get a life and oh yeah everyone else, question authority.

Travel Into Your Soul And Return

tool's fourth album, lateralus, could create a new significate for the word "perfection". this album contains all the instances for the perfect prog-metal album, but contains also a lot of psichedelic patterns.

"The Grudge" is the first song of the album. the riff of guitar is repeated all along the eight minutes of the song, and maynard explains how the grudge could be an obstacle to throw away. the scream at the end of the song show us all the anger repressed.

"eon blue apocalypse" is related with "the patient". here maynard

explains how life can be hard to live, but everything have a significate.

after "mantra", comes "schism", real poetry. maynard shows how can be difficult the life of two lovers that can't reach each other.

then, here who listen to the following songs can disappear.

parabol/parabola is a song that talks about two persons that make love, with all their hearts. parbol is soft, lounge, and make the sensation of life, with the guitar that crawls slowly into your skin.

parabola is the explosion of love, of passion. but it's not finished.

if parabol/parabola, is the passion, "ticks and leeches" is the rage. this songs is the sand in your mouth, the blood that you wanna suck from your enemies, the world that you wanna flush away. the guitars are evil, and the patterns of the drums are impossible. they describe the rush.

then here comes the power. "lateralus", probably the best song of the album, talks about the sense of life, the way you're choosing to live, the power that surrounds you in every minute of your life. this song is mathematic: the verse is divided with the "fibonacci's sequence", and search the perfection of everything.

after the final D minor of lateralus, there is one song divided in three parts: disposition, reflection and triad. these songs talks about the searching for yourself, and if you have find yourself you are at the end of the travel.

faip de oiad is the final song of the album and shows how the governements of the world can control the human race like aliens.

this is simply the best album of the new century, and this travel into soul and return makes TOOL the best band of the world.