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New Tool Album Leaked
ubi:
I just love this new Tool album. Waited for it for 5 long years and I'm more than pleased with it. And I also think it's a good idea that it's just not "a new Lateralus" but they have somewhat progressed with their music. But hey, that's just my opinion, who cares! ;)
Ghostwriter:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Tool is the bottom rung of pretentious heavy music. When a Tool fan gets too pretentious, or older than 15, he gets into Mike Patton idolisation. Then, the paths bifurcate. Some go to Devin Townsend, some to Dream Theater, a few to Ayreon.
Also, a small list of things Tool aren't:
Original, innovative, particularly clever, metal.
--- End quote ---
Uhm...heh. I'd venture to say that the music occasionally has some degree of emotion to it.
Unlike Dream Theater. Every DT song I have ever heard has struck me as utterly lifeless and dull. I do not honestly give a shit that Petrucci can play 16th notes at 400 BPM or do tapping solos with his wang or whatever it is that he specializes in. It may make him edgy with the crowd of teenage males who practice shred drills in their bedroom all day, seemingly dispersing only to post about their hot love for him on message boards. But honestly, I have yet to hear an emotionally captivating Dream Theater song. Feel free to make an attempt at converting me, if you will.
Tool propelled my interests in music a lot at an early age. Yeah, Maynard's pointlessly obscure philosophical banter is annoying, and everything. I just don't get all the hatred towards them.
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: Ghostwriter ---Every DT song I have ever heard has struck me as utterly lifeless and dull. I do not honestly give a shit that Petrucci can play 16th notes at 400 BPM or do tapping solos with his wang or whatever it is that he specializes in. It may make him edgy with the crowd of teenage males who practice shred drills in their bedroom all day, seemingly dispersing only to post about their hot love for him on message boards. But honestly, I have yet to hear an emotionally captivating Dream Theater song. Feel free to make an attempt at converting me, if you will.
Tool propelled my interests in music a lot at an early age. Yeah, Maynard's pointlessly obscure philosophical banter is annoying, and everything. I just don't get all the hatred towards them.
--- End quote ---
Your point is valid. DT is over-hyped and not really any good. And Tool are a lot on the pretentious side too ...
I actually feel that the hatred is not so much focused on Tool but on their fans. And I have to say ... tool-fans in my experience are the people who invented 400bpm wang-solos.
Mind you, I'm sure that not every Tool fan is a wang-soloing, pretentious twat. But it's just the ones I know, personally, are ...
KharBevNor:
Why has this thread turned into Tool versus Dream Theater? It's like pokemon, but with bands with annoying, obsessive fans.
Also, groupies? KRIEG!
...where are my blowjobs?
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Why has this thread turned into Tool versus Dream Theater? It's like pokemon, but with bands with annoying, obsessive fans.
Also, groupies? KRIEG!
...where are my blowjobs?
--- End quote ---
Not that kind of groupie. Trust me.
Come to think of it ... DT fans are usually quite annoying too. Is there a sub-genre called annoying metal?
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