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"Forty Six & 2" is also a long winding piece that continues to build up brilliantly throughout and is one of the bands best songs. "Eulogy" is quite a long piece and can be hard to get into as it takes a while to build up but i think the lyrics (some say they refer to bill hicksīecause of the album artwork but others say they relate to jesus) are superbly writtenĪnd this song shows how tool can switch between emotion and angst. Maynards vocals are the key ingredient here. The album kicks off with "stinkfist" which shows off the bands guitar skills and progresses beautiful throughout. Huge improvement on the bands amazing guitar skills. This album is much more accessible as it has excellent production and a

David Bottrill / keyboards (6), co-producer & mixingĪrtwork: Cam De Leon with Adam Jones & Kevin Willis (Art Direction) and Tool (concept)ĬD Zoo Entertainment ‎- 61422-31087-2 (1996, US)Īenima is tools third album (unless you dont count opiate to be a full length album) and is a We’ve charted our top 20 here.- Danny Carey / drums, percussion, samples Sometimes they’re microcosms of the greater entity, but more often they’re detailed fragments reflecting back vibrant perspectives on art, humanity and society as a whole. So many of their individual compositions work as effective standalones, however. Following their story step by step, song by song is the only path to enlightenment for their (many) obsessive devotees. It’s not just in the deep, dense, vertiginously complex music they make, either, but in their often contrarian approach to conducting the business of being in a band their unwillingness to be steered by their own success, and their insistence on delivering greatness on their own stubborn terms. Together, drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor (or his predecessor Paul D’Amour), guitarist Adam Jones and vocalist Maynard James Keenan are a band apart. In many ways, Tool ​ ’s back catalogue – a collection of songs three decades in the making yet only five albums deep – is less a discography to be listened to and more of a puzzle to be solved.