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The included art and etchings on the reverse of the albums look great but doubt it is something I would display. Note: These vinyls are hand signed by Alex Grey on the cover OR the upper side of the vinyl itself; original packaging comes opened. It takes time and repeated listens to appreciate each track but if you commit to it you will find amazing depth as the complexity and utter beauty of this music gets its hooks into you. Formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California – Tool emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first studio album, Under.

As a Tool album, I hope every fan will find in this something to which they can relate and I hope this review, such as it is, will inspire people to see this as a 'beyond' Tool work. Both CD and these cards have snug pockets to put them in near the inside of each cover of the hardcover book. The most intense songs on the album are Pneuma and 7empest and they're half the intensity of anything else they've recorded previously. Of course, those charts don't necessarily mean as much in this age as they did when the preceding Tool LP dropped, but 270,000 album-equivalent units within the first week do not lie.I kept waiting for it to break open because it felt like there was a buildup many times but it just never happened. Reading about how Keenan worked on the album around his wine making, it feels like that half focused effort bled through onto the song writing.

Glossy cover with dark elements in matte and 6-sided fractal star on back, eyes centered in star points, silver on black geometric repeating pattern on sides.As far as the music is concerned, Chris Bellman has done a stupendous job mastering and mixing this album. Full glossy cover with 7-sided geometric pattern on back, points of pattern ends in 14 solid circles. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. As far as the actual album is concerned, the more I listen to it the more I'm coming to terms with how half-assed it sounds.

My previoulsy purchased copies of Undertow and Opiate were underwhelming, particularly given that I generally have appreciated early punk rock tool more than later prog rock Tool. Tool members include drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, bassist Justin Chancellor and vocalist Mayna.

I have described listening to this version as being similar to listening to a recent Pink Floyd reissue or Nine Inch Nails vinyl remaster. They're still masters of odd time signatures and 10+ minute songs but other than that, it was tough to find anything that really stood out to me while listening. Two years later we made the move to our present address, 35 The Headrow, where we have remained ever since. This is truly deep and complex music which will keep giving and revealing more of itself to you the more you listen.

Upon first play through you probably won't feel gratified but with patience and commitment you'll realise that this album is an absolute modern masterpiece and extremely satisfying, I really can't emphasise this enough! The presentation and packaging is also done well, it’s almost like an art book, a little over the top but that's Tool.A fine example of what the group have always done so well - running with wolves like Mogwai, only with far more metal sensibilities, and a damn-sight bigger helping of experimentalism, when this bad boy arrived in 2019 it shot straight to the top of the US Billboard 200, the third consecutive record from the group to do so. From the avant-garde percussion and awkward synths of 'Chocolate Chip Trip', to the almost-ethereal ambience of 'Legion Inoculant' and the riff and crescendo heavy 'Pneuma', it's a wild thing of beauty.