Fear Inoculum

This is, I think, the 4th TOOL album on the Finishers Club list and I know, the people who love them just really love them, but give it a rest please. Dig up something obscure, everybody knows TOOL exists. I've got nothing new to say about this music. Having written all that before actually listening to this I'm compelled to address that I think this is my favorite offering from this band so far. Overly long and with some material towards the end I found to be self-indulgent twaddle but I'll even boost it an extra star for taking things to some interesting places lyrically, vocally, and musically.

I am good with like one TOOL song mixed into a playlist, I do not need 1.5 hours of consistent TOOL. Every TOOL album is not a must hear before you die. TOOL

OK… there are a lot of Tool fans who finished the list. Too many for me to love, but I’m sure one of these Tool albums should be acknowledged. I think maybe this one suffers because I still struggle to love Tool.

For people who like math, Joe Rogan, and GHB.

ANOTHER fucking Tool album? are you kidding me? fuck off, losers. 2/5.

Surely we have ran out of TOOL albums to add to this list now?

Tool is not as good as people would have you believe. This is the 4th album on the user list and I'm so incredibly tired of this. I really wanted to like it, but they're not making it easy. It's not only uncomfortable, it's boring. It numbs my mind in such an unremarkable way. 1

This was already an album that I listen to regularly. I would consider TOOL one of my favorite bands. From reading the comments nearly every one of their albums made the user submitted list. While I think they are great, I’m hesitant to see any artist have more than 2 albums on the list unless they absolutely transcend a decade or genre. They are fantastic musicians for sure, but I think variety is what makes these projects fun. I’m not a fan of the filler/skit songs that they do, but the rest of the album is amazing. Still a 5/5 from me.

Great album, but not as good as Lateralus and Aenima. As the guy who nominated Lateralus, I can say that we probably don’t need four Tool albums on the list, but the fact that we don’t know which other albums have been nominated before selecting our own makes it difficult to get that balance. Anyway, that’s my excuse for the four Tool albums. What’s the 1001 albums committee’s excuse for the 20 fucking Nick Cave albums on that list? Tool over Nick Cave any day of the week.

This is my least favorite TOOL album. It sounds much too overthought due to the many years it took to create. The album lacks the urgence and spontaneity their other albums have. It is too long and just drags on.

Yet another chosen album from the King Crimson of metal. This one's ok but retreads previous stuff. Tool fans are a bit obsessive...

Absolute genius, from one of the most interesting and innovative bands around

After being hesitant to add a second Took album to the user list we are now at 4 Tool albums with only Undertow left. It’s only a matter of time! Fear Innoculum is the most recent tool album and while it’s still very good. It’s also very formulaic to what Tool fans have come to like. This album is solid but the drawback is there’s less rawness that made their earlier stuff better and it’s mainly just solid prog rock instrumentals that they can output so precisely. 8.1/10

I do like TOOL. But this album is trying too hard to be atypical. Build-ups that go nowhere, and songs that are just a bit too long

I'm being won over to Tool by shear weight of suggestion, but how many hours of this stuff am I expected to listen to?

Pretty incredible how the weakest Tool album is still this great.

I really do like it. I'm hardly a fan, more just curious, but this is the only Tool album I ever feel the urge to come back to. It sounded great blasting it in my car today.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Descending

Not as bad as people made out

This album had its moments, particularly on the front half, but I just wasn't feeling it. You either click with these guys or you don't. Fave Songs: Pneuma, Fear Inoculum, Descending

Another Tool album? Honestly it's just fine. I'd say boring more than anything and way, way, way, too fucking long. 90 minutes? Cut it half again. The songs just meander and hey if that's what you are into great but I'm not. Wild that there is yet another Tool album awaiting me. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

The Tool fans are out in force. I feel between the main list and this side list I’ve had all their records in the last few months except Opiate. They’re all good records and I enjoy them. I just don’t know if they all need to be on here. Which one I would remove - I don’t know.

I like Tool to a point, and Fear Innoculum is like everything else where it sounds perfectly fine to the ear on first listen, and I suspect I'd enjoy it quite a lot if I listened repeatedly and 'got it' more, but I never get there. This was a fine and average morning listen of crashing loud noise, 3/5, I'll take it.

Not for me

The 4th and easily the weakest TOOL album on the user-submitted list. Maybe submitting 4 of their 5 albums makes up for the fact that none were included in the original 1001 albums (the exclusions of Ænima and Lateralus are ludicrous). Maybe not This album is fine, it’s just a far cry from their heyday. If we have to wait another 13 years for another TOOL album, hopefully they have some more ideas

Don't care for it at all. 2 stars.

Progressive rock, progressive metal, alternative metal. Tostón. Un 2.

Usually up for whatever labyrinthine tracks TOOL has to offer, but this LP doesn't coalesce into the usual tight prog-rock the band is known for. Too many of the progressions here feel lost, meandering along repeated riffs that don't seem to reach much of a justifying conclusion. Maybe the band was trying to make up for lost time between releases, but the album suffers as a result and feels uncharacteristically bloated and lacking in focus.

boring ass metal

Is this a joke now? Are we attempting to get every single TOOL album on this list. Just checked and yep; they've released 5 albums and all 5 are now on this list. I suppose their fans have to shout about them as to anyone with ears they're pish.

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