Album Rating: 4.5

there's also some really fucked up rhythm parts on this that are super satisfying to pull off correctly. Like Schism changes time like 50 times but it's not hard to play, but there are parts on this, for example the part leading into and during the "you better listen" section in Rosetta Stoned that are a bitch to get a hang of at first

Album Rating: 5.0

maybe not their 'best' album but their most sophisticated for sure.

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah Lateralus and Aenima are so much better.

Album Rating: 4.0

sophisticated? lol im sorry but thats the worst adjective ive ever heard to describe a prog metal album

Album Rating: 4.5

He probably just meant the instrumental performances are the most technical on this album, which is true, at least with the guitar and the bass.

Album Rating: 4.5

Most prog metal albums are at least technically sophisticated, that's basically what defines the genre, so I don't see what's wrong with the term.



This one's also "sophistocated" in several other ways.

Album Rating: 4.0

I guess i just pictured Maynard smoking a pipe

Album Rating: 5.0

Not sure why that's an improper term to use for prog metal, that's a defining characteristic of prog music is it not?



@Rik lol why is that in quotes

Album Rating: 4.5

because sophisticated is being used there in the very strictest definition of the word

Album Rating: 5.0

Ah ok. I've had people in real life using physical quote marks at me a lot recently so I just associate them with dumb assholes atm (love you Rik).

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I tend to do those, no ill intention involved (:

One would think that Art is not War, yet, his battle with self awareness and abandonment has issued this user a name he relates to. Anyhoo, drinks on me this weekend! It is Cinco de Mayo. Whatever that means.

Album Rating: 4.0

oh god

Yes?

Album Rating: 4.0

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You see the spiral in your image? It's a galaxy. Or galaxies. Or, what are you searching for? The light? You want the light? You long for it? You are curious? How many faces have passed since 5/2/2006? Many? Keep searching for the unknown. It seems the light is getting brighter. Nearer. When in reality, it's drifting farther away. That light is propelled so far away that the human mind cannot comprehend. Your peripheral is misleading, seems like you're gaining towards it. When, essentially, with every statue passed, the light is approximately .064 light years away. Every time a face statue passes, that light at the end is farther, by large margins. Constantly expanding. The universe is constantly expanding at a rate that is hard to calculate. In a million years, if human beings still exist, we will not be able to see other galaxies with a telescope, even the most powerful telescope. Right now, we know there are other galaxies. But in the future? All humans will know is what they see, with their own eyes. This galaxy and its stars, IF we're lucky to still be alive as a race then. At this measure, it's doubtful. Time is one amazing concept.

Album Rating: 4.0

i have transcended

Album Rating: 5.0

They have to make sure the time signatures add up to Pi, just let them do their process this stuff takes time

Album Rating: 5.0

That's a lot of decimal places dude, in fact it's working on MULTIPLE levels, hence Duodecim. I won't reveal what that means here as I don't want to spoil the surprise... But have you ever played 4D chess??

So you want us, Tool, to make an album deriving on Pi, a mathematical concept taught to 5th grade students, and put a 4D chess aspect into play and meld it into something like ... 6th grade math or something? Pardon me while I burst, into a state of "that's out there". It's out there, in 6th grade math. Anyhoo, Caduceus. Snakes. Cross. Maynard, out.