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Unosuke:
I dunno, I like tool, i'm not all fanatical about them, but they have their moments of awesome. Who I can't stand is Deftones. I remember when White Poney came out and everyone was all "OMG DEFTONES!!!!one1" and I felt like I was sitting there all by my self asking "whats the big deal?"

Hat:
I've downloaded it, but haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. I guess I've been looking forward to it, but it isn't that big a deal. Also, Khar is disturbingly accurate about what happens to Tool fans, but I still like to throw on an album of theirs every now and again. I think they're drastically overhyped by the fans, but that doesn't mean they're not good, it just means that they're not "the best band ever and you should totally listen to them or you are a total closed minded bastard oh fuck, the Mescal just kicked in."

Also, out of sheer curiosity, I kind of peeked onto the Toolshed forum last night, and half the fans on there are convinced its a hoax album as part of some elaborate joke on Tools behalf, and that its a total load of shit, and the other half believe its the geniune album and is fucking awesome.

The best part about this is that no matter what, half the people on that forum are going to look like complete idiots when the CD actually comes out.

I have heard Vicarious though, and that is a fucking sweet track.

Also, whoever mentioned Karnivool earlier, fo' rizzle, my peep. I haven't actually heard their album, but I saw them live on a recommendation from a friend and they were fantastic.

El Opium:
In days of old when coats were sold and stoats had weird barbed-wire fetishes I thought about buying a tool album. Then my sister started liking them and became all goth-lite. Thankyou fate for bestowing awful things upon my sister instead of me. tool don't cause goth, they cause goth-lite, cause they just ain't good enough.

Outshined:

--- Quote from: Houdinimachine ---Man I am really surprised by the Tool hate in this thread. My friend getting me into Tool through "Sober" is what got me into heavier music to begin with.

--- End quote ---


Yeah, see this is basically my mentality.  I think Tool is a great band, simply because with out them, I really wouldn't have given Metal a second look as a genre and would have missed out as a lot of stuff as a result.

 I also don't get how everyone can go on about how they are "derivative" when they sound completely unlike most other prog or metal bands I could compare them to.  They seem to have a unique mentality.  And thirdly, where does the pretentiousness come in?  Is it because they sing about new-age spirituality every now and then?  What is so god awful about, I don't know, maybe thinking the world might -not- be completely shallow and focused on material things every once in a while.  I actually find it somewhat refreshing.  Finally, they are all decent to good musicians, so why rag on them, when there are plenty of godawful bands that we could be more productively ragging on?  

I'm pretty much going to stand by my guns that, as far as metal goes, you could do a whole lot worse than Tool, and that I'm glad they are out there because it's infinitely better than the majority of other mainstream stuff.

Khar's sentiments about "Post-Tool" bands are right on, though, haha.  I like what I've heard of Townsend, I think Dream Theater rocks, and I can appreciate Ayreon's intentions even though I don't really like them.   I still have no idea who this Patton guy is, though =P.

KharBevNor:
No, you could do a whole lot better and ACTUALLY LISTEN TO A BAND THAT'S METAL.

Seriously, I listened to more metal bands last week than most of you guys, with some noble exceptions, have in your life-times.

Tool aren't metal.

I'm not saying they're crap because they're not metal, but they're NOT METAL.

@Unosuke: Now that's a BAD band.

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