[Pataacculakp]

I haven't bought or listened to the album yet, but I find that really good progressive albums take at least 10 listens to get into.

[kavaTeexy]

I just went out and bought it. Can't listen to it yet though because I am at work. The lenses they built into the CD case are a bit crappy.

[KuRoregioNka]

It's awesome. Been listening to it solidly for almost a fortnight now. Brought it today.

Highlights for me consist of Rosetta Stoned, Right in Two and 10000 Days (wings pt 2). Though the whole album is unbelievably good.

I do hope the rumours that they might come here in august turn out to be true.

Asher, Tool isn't angsty, its depressed.

[Mmccqrtb]

Really good. Something of a blend between the Undertow era and recent APC.

[Svatudjw]

Originally posted by Asher
Is the new album angsty enough for you, SB?

[simmons latex mattress]

Lateralus isn't all that different from APC.

[myhackingtosh_ws]

Was thinking 13th Step more than Mer de Noms, but I haven't heard either in a while...

Generally, APC is less visceral and more cerebral (for the lack of a better word) than older Tool (Undertow and Opiate). Lateralus went in that direction. It seems like 10,000 Days stepped back.

[Duseshoug]

i was just worried that it would be completely inaccessible to anyone other than the most hardcore tool fan, or someone with a degree in music.

[XU8i6ysK]

I don't actively seek out free mp3s, but if they come my way I'll have a listen. If I really like a band I'll buy their CD because I like to have the "real thing" if you know what I mean. I also think if a band is that good they deserve my money.

[dfuzioniag]

That's about 30 years, isn't it?

[rolex-buy]

The ArtWork of the Tool Album's worth my purshase!!!

Now I'm in the process to make MP3 with my CD, and I'll listen the album!

[neerewed]

first 4 songs are so far!

[wllsqyuipknczx]

My favs are 10'000 Days, Lost Keys and Rosetta Stoned, Right in Two

[Dndjzirw]

trainspotting numerologist jerk-off Tool-nerd (and that accounts for 100% of Tool fans) Rosetta Stoned manages to sneak in some of Tool’s beloved po-faced scatological humor amid a tale of some loser who does too many drugs and thinks for a split second that his life has meaning, but then it escapes his addled mind (sound familiar, Tool fans?). Imagine my immense pleasure when my hard rock album was interrupted— no, that’s too harsh a word— when my hard rock album was magnificently bolstered by exactly the sort of stupid ****ing crap I might hear on some grocery store counter impulse buy CD of New Age chanting bullshit! Bravo! I can have my cake and eat it too, and while I eat my cake I can listen to some total crap! his is not to mention the three-minute intro to Rosetta Stoned; that clearly doesn’t count as filler, since it’s an integral part of the song, right? I mean, you might ask “what could possibly make an already lengthy and overwrought song even better?” Obviously, the answer is to make the sum’***** longer! Just slap on a vacuous three minutes of guitar feedback and a couple of menacing chords, and viola: epic.

[StoyaFanst]

Beyond the broad definition of prog as an experimental art form, however, lies much debate about what really makes a band part of the prog scene:
"As far as the prog references go, we embrace them. However, we would prefer our new moniker, which is a Mulligan stew of progressive rock, Bulgarian folk metal, rock ’n’ roll, ’80s disco and Christian rap that we like to call Munge."[32]
(Keenan, interviewed by the Boston Herald, 2006) This quote is from the wikipedia article on Tool.

Does any of the Tool fans here know what this Bulgarian folk metal might be. Any band names?

[sniskelsowwef]

it's grown on me, what can i say?

even said 'epic.' there is a story in there, and now i'm actually wondering what it is...