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Everything about Tool's fourth album is an experience, starting with the packaging, which consists of liner credits printed on a translucent plastic sleeve over the CD and a booklet that layers anatomical representations atop one another--the first page pictures musculature and blood vessels; the next, bones; the third, intE
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Everything about Tool's fourth album is an experience, starting with the packaging, which consists of liner credits printed on a translucent plastic sleeve over the CD and a booklet that layers anatomical representations atop one another--the first page pictures musculature and blood vessels; the next, bones; the third, internal organs; and so on. It's worth describing the packaging of Lateralus because it says much about the astonishing music within. Maynard James Keenan and company understand the expectations riding on this much-anticipated release and they've delivered the goods! While it remains in the Tool tradition of trance-inducing progressive metal, Lateralus is tighter, clearer, crisper, and all around a notch above their admirable previous releases. Aenima was marred by muddy production and a certain predictability. Undertow had a cleaner sound but wasn't as confident or adventurous. With Lateralus, Tool have raised an already lofty bar still higher by coming up with a collection that kicks major ass. --Genevieve Williams
"Ah Lateralus...the biggest obstacle to my enjoyment of this album remains the fact that this is when they started taking themselves far too seriously. Their previous releases displayed their sense of humor throughout, while on this one it's almost entirely absent. And that makes Lateralus a bore by comparison.
Their live performances while touring behind this album didn't help my appreciation of it either. Maynard quit being a proper frontman, standing up front in interesting costumes & make-up"
the giraffe added this to a list 2 years, 3 months ago
""Schism"
At the time this album came out I was spending a lot of time in online chatrooms. From this song came the username I used the most: findingbeautyinthedissonance.
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Nocturne added this to a list 2 years, 8 months ago
"I remember the afternoon I was watching a Finnish music program, Lateralus had just come out and they showed the video for Schism. It was the first time since Paranoid Android something really grabbed me by the balls (if I had a pair, that is).
Tool is probably still my favourite band ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo"
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