Tool Fear Inoculum
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SomeCallMeTim
May 13th 2025


5349 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

good take @ Egarran (xcept I do like a lot of tattoos)



oof how is that autechre tat somehow worse

Demon of the Fall
May 13th 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

I get liking Autechre, but connecting to their music on a "lets put something permanent on my body to commemorate them" type level, does seem rather unrelatable

I mean even Tool makes more sense despite conjuring some similar feelings

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
May 13th 2025


116695 Comments


That tat is absolutely moronic lmao.

Demon of the Fall
May 13th 2025


39105 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

oh, yeah I actually checked the links and erm Tool guy "wins" easy lmao. I was expecting the Autechre one to at least be some album artwork or something a little more subtle, damn "high IQ" indeed baseline

keaton_86
May 13th 2025


1377 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"That tat is absolutely moronic lmao."



Yep it's horrific. Even if it was done well it would be horrible, but it's not, so it's horrible on all fronts.

Egarran
May 13th 2025


36866 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Dear diary,



Today I opened a Facebook link from Johnny. I feel so dirty.

Retter42
May 13th 2025


89 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That neck tattoo is horrible

BaselineOOO
May 15th 2025


2846 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"I was expecting the Autechre one to at least be some album artwork or something a little more subtle, damn "high IQ" indeed baseline"

Just because that Polish guy calls himself an Autechre fan doesn’t make him some official member. Read a history book, ffs.

IAmScott
July 3rd 2025


579 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

an autechre and tool collab would be great / really suck

Egarran
July 3rd 2025


36866 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Be honest here people: Has Fear Inoculum quietly become the most musically advanced rock album of the 21st century?

IAmScott
July 3rd 2025


579 Comments

Album Rating: 1.0

advanced my ibs symptoms sure

Egarran
July 3rd 2025


36866 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

These transcendental rhythms can be too hard on the common gastrointestinal tract.

Christbait
July 3rd 2025


1505 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

“Even over a decade since releasing any music, Fear Inoculum sounds like it could have been written at any point during Tool’s classic period.”



Depending on which side of the aisle you're on in regards to this album, this one sentence is either a truly damning summation of the album or its biggest compliment. Six years on and I'm still confused about how I feel about this thing.

Goodolboy
July 3rd 2025


1477 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Sounds like a tool album. I never understood all the complaints about how this sounds and the negativity lol. It sounds like reflection off lateralus them making a whole album of that. Ive seen. So many comments on this record over the years "idk how to feel about this. Or it's to mellow it's to this and that etc etc. It sounds like tool..... Never understood all the weird complaints lol

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2025


116695 Comments


All Tool blows agreed.

IsisScript80
July 3rd 2025


1755 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"Six years on and I'm still confused about how I feel about this thing."

Heard it in full for the first time in ages, a couple of weeks back... yeah, I get that sentiment.

It's kinda late-stage Metallica where it's a LOT of main elements that a person thinks of, that make up a typical album, but without a decent edit or full-on quality control.

Consequently, the highs are very high (up there with their best), but the lows are frequent and basically the worst of what they're about.

Apparently, a big part of the delay to this album was ongoing crises of confidence amongst the band members (excluding Maynard, by all accounts). I think it shows in at least a third of the run-time. Still love a decent amount of this, though (but alas, not enough to tattoo my neck with it).

IsisScript80
July 3rd 2025


1755 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh wow... just saw... 778 pages.

If you remove all the "Tool sucks/blows", etc. comments, it would probably amount to something like 20 or something, lol.

samwise2000
July 3rd 2025


1982 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

love this album and honestly in the upper half of their catalogue for me now

Goodolboy
July 3rd 2025


1477 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Any metal/rock fan that hates tool just has shit taste in music tbh.

Hawks
Staff Reviewer
July 3rd 2025


116695 Comments


LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOO



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