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New Tool Album Leaked
amok:
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Yes, I like Godsmack better than Tool. Deal with it.
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I got figuratively BEATEN TO DEATH on a gaming forum for saying this. That tells you a LOT about the kind of people who use gaming forums.
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.
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Yeah there's two Tool bandwagons really. The ZOMG TOOL ARE THE MOST PHILOSOPHICAL AND SMART BAND IN THE UNIVERSE bandwagon, and the TOOL ARE BORING AND THEIR FANS ARE JACKASSES bandwagon. The latter has more of a valid point, their teenage fans give them a bad name (especially in the US where they're more mainstream, from what I can gleam from the internets). You either get Tool or you don't, and if you don't, they're incredibly boring. Me, I dig 'em (and Dream Theater screw you ;)) but this new record is something of a let-down :(
Misereatur:
--- 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
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*Looks at self*
Damn.
Now seriously, I'm a Tool fan and a Patton fan, and I'm older then 15. Whats wrong with that? All the Tool fans I know are intelligent, eclectic people. NOT stupid emo 15 year olds.
KharBevNor:
Let me just say, you are a really lucky man. Don't piss off your friends.
Myself, I like not Tool and am seriously indifferent to Patton. I just don't get it.
Okay, I like a bit of heavy devvy. And I'm a bit of a Dan Swano fanboy.
Kid Modernist:
I haven't listened to the new album yet, and am not a huge fan of Tool, but i definitely think their album Undertow is fucking killer.
People they aren't original but there are about a billion bands in the genre with Death, Wolves, or GERMANIC REFERENCE in the name, so I think originality isn't as good as the rocking.
TrueNeutral:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---Well, Godsmack did start off as an Alice in Chains tribute band.
I always felt a bit sorry for Godsmack. They got caught up in nu-metal, but aren't. And to have that kind of taint on you sucks. Plus, they have some actually rather good songs. Voodoo anyone?
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Yeah, Godsmack is really just grunge with really loud and downtuned guitars. I wrote an article on it once for a local metalzine that my friends give out for free at shows, comparing them with bands like KoRn and Linkin' Park, and then with bands like Black Album Metallica and Alice In Chains. Most people who've read it now refer to them as Post-Grunge. The nu-metal thing wasn't really helped by the fact that, because they were the big 'in' thing, they release singles like I Stand Alone and the new one, Speak, which are the songs that sound the most nu-metal on their albums.
They pulled an Unforgiven II and made Voodoo Too on this new disc. They show some more musical range on IV, but it's kind of a mixed bag. I really like the song Hollow. It gave me goosebumps.
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