Album Rating: 5.0

Weed is tight, bro.

Album Rating: 4.0

"In the Internet age there so much goddamn music to explore when a band puts out a worse version of the sound they've already perfected there is absolutely zero reason to listen to the new one over listening to older material or trying out something new and interesting."



Lol what is this opinion even?

Album Rating: 3.5

I had the "Don't you date point that at me" line with the slow riff on my head all day. Culling Voices is severely underrated here.

Album Rating: 2.0

really wish tool would finally write music that went beyond the pentatonic scale



to their credit, they've gotten a lot of mileage out of like five notes

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

take a band like Integrity that haven't changed up their recent sound in a while. say one of those records, the blackest curse, were released in '93. then they release their followup, suicide black snake, which sounds very damn similar. you wouldn't mind dealing with that retread back then cuz spotify didn't make it so easy to think "eh fuck it it's 'nothing new', I have thousands of other things to check" and you kept what was being peddled by the zines.



that's what he obviously meant sitar, if you're old enough you'd relate at some level of how slow and little we had to work with

Album Rating: 5.0

"Culling Voices is severely underrated here." No its not...don t you dare point that at me..

Album Rating: 4.5

Today was the first day Descending clicked for me. Only took like 5 listens



Definitely one of the best here. Only songs I haven’t fallen completely in love with (yet) are Culling Voices and CCT.

Album Rating: 4.0

My heart is so full

Album Rating: 4.5

sure

Album Rating: 4.0

Well mr Relinquished, how about if you've listened to Blackest Curse 43,000 times since 1993 because Integrity hasn't released anything since then and then they release Suicide Black Snake in 2019. Are you going to not be able to enjoy it because it's similar to Blackest Curse?

Album Rating: 2.0

time is precious. if someone wants to use it to check out something they haven't heard before rather than something they've heard a million times, more power to them. who cares

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

if that what was how I saw it then damn right I will. I'm also sure they meant that it wouldn't had matter when it came out, 3 years or 13 years. if you were stuck with limited options you're probably gonna stay liking it cuz that's what left around in your limited world.



good thing that's not the case for me on this record, but live n let live I won't sweat it if I can see where they're coming from. if it happened to Neurosis I can definitely see people getting tired cuz of similar they went about this.

Album Rating: 5.0

Lark brotha...those were my last ones too and when they clicked I knew I had to 5 it x)

Album Rating: 5.0

And I like the last Integrity a lot lol as much the debut (the only ones I grasped tbh)

Album Rating: 1.0

I knew that drugs were a prerequisite to enjoying a Tool album. One cannot simply listen to this shit sober.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

Sober is actually one of the few Tool songs that lends itself to listening to it sober

Album Rating: 5.0

Bless this imunity.

Album Rating: 1.0

Sober is actually one of the few Tool songs that lends itself to listening to it sober



Guess I gotta check Undertow now

Album Rating: 4.0

"if that what was how I saw it then damn right I will. I'm also sure they meant that it wouldn't had matter when it came out, 3 years or 13 years. if you were stuck with limited options you're probably gonna stay liking it cuz that's what left around in your limited world."



Sure, having access to more music means you can find more good music. But that alone isn't a statement about the merit of an album. I find the implication that that the crucial judgement of albums here is not on the basis of whether they are in any way compositionally, lyrically, or musically evocative, but rather only on whether they are somehow "different", amusing.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

if the non-fans think this sounds like what they tried on the past couple record in whatever extrapolated opinion they put together then more power to them cuz they're not that far off, speaking as a "old fan" or whatever the hell that means to me these days. if they're looking for "different" or "evocative" yet after 13 fatiguing years of built-up inherent bias from all sides of tool discussions they find that them staying in the same damn tuning, similar tricks and tones, and 'similar' drum fills isn't doing it for them, then of course they're gonna feel that in this final product it wouldn't had mattered if it came out 5 years or 13 years later.