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Generally favorable reviews- based on 733 Ratings
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Positive: 581 out of 733
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Mixed: 43 out of 733
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Negative: 109 out of 733
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Sep 23, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 9, 2019Listening to Fear Inoculum front to back gives me the same feeling as sitting through an Economics class. Their worst, and most uninspired album to date.
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Sep 8, 2019This album is their worst. Such a let down. This album could go straight to the bin.
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Sep 1, 2019I'm sorry but this sounds like a band trying to rip off the "Tool sound" in a cheap way, rather then Tool being themselves. It feels forced, not natural, like they had to fulfill a contract or something. To be honest I didn't expect it to be like this... they always went full force and expressed themselves 100% but now it seems they have no more juice. I feel bad because I'm a big fan :(
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Oct 5, 2019One of the worst Metal albums I've ever heard.Painfully awful.Bland,boring and really painful to even finish one song.I don't mind lengthy songs but it was so boring. 13 years for this?Nah!
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Aug 31, 2019Such a waste of time. I hope they comeback with better than this album, if they can
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Sep 1, 2019
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Sep 1, 2019Why would you took 13 years to make this? I've been a fan of TOOL for so long and they came out with this? The statement was not enough.
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Aug 31, 2019Old stuff was better...I miss the good old days of tool not this stuff, it could've been so much better
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Sep 1, 2019Album sucks. Songs are too long and Maynard doesn't scream, wahhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Aug 30, 2019
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Sep 1, 2019they should have never come back! 20 minute songs with useless intros and outros.
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Aug 30, 2019It felt way too try hard and pretentious at times. A strong let down. I liked the singles but then when I first heard the album I was just disappointed.
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Feb 14, 2020Made an account just to leave a review on this album and hopefully save a few tool fans some of there must valuable time. Firstly ill start with the good parts of the album; the tittle track
thats pretty much it rest of it is poorly produced and only has the decent reviews it has becasue of tools long time STANS -
Sep 1, 2019Really weak album. I don't think it was worth such a long wait. I hope they make better ones in the future.
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Aug 30, 2019This album was forced and pretentious. Love is much better! If you read the lyrics you will understand the context but when you are putting the sound together it does not come through as clear and conveyed.
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Apr 26, 2020Other bands that have been gone for a long time that have made substantial comebacks, have reinvented the wheel.
Unfortunately, Tool have not. There is nothing in here that wasn't on 10,000 days or their back catalogue, experimentation is at an all time low, and has a serious uninspired sound to it.
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Oct 9, 2019The album plays like an extended mood piece that bends and drifts, with a shortage of the crushing hard-rock crescendos and riffs that defined the band’s work on “Lateralus” (2001) and before.
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Sep 19, 2019Sadly, there’s nothing on Fear Inoculum as immediately accessible or anthemic as past Tool glories like “Sober” or “The Pot,” but what is here will reward repeated spins, even if listeners initially find themselves waiting for those mammoth riffs to show up, a la “7empest,” or for Maynard to finally kick into high gear, as in the rousing refrain of “Descending.”
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Sep 10, 2019Musically, Tool have taken the best of Lateralus's dynamism and the heaviness of 10,000 Days to explore the middle ground with great length on Fear Inoculum. Those who stuck it out through the decade-plus wait won't mind hanging around a little longer until the album's close.