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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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Aug 30, 2019Tool managed to pick up exactly where they left off with a masterpiece. On the level of Lateralus, Dark Side of the Moon and In Rainbows but better.
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Aug 31, 2019
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Aug 30, 2019It grows like fine wine. I rated it after 10-20 listens but it’s perfection.
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Aug 30, 2019Absolute perfection. Classical tool but with a new and more mature feel. The production is great and the talent displayed from all of the guys is astounding. The absolute star is Carey on drums, he achieves things with 2 arms and 2 legs that a trained octopus couldn't hope to emulate. The guitar and bass are powerful and Maynard's vocals chilling and poignant. Simply must be heard to be believed.
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Aug 30, 2019Not just an album, this is an experience. Intense, complex. Each listen brings out something new and powerful, and deepens the appreciation of the music. One of the very few times something has been not only been able to meet the hype surrounding it, but surpass it.
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Aug 30, 2019Brilliance, feels like you’ve been invited into the greatest jam session of all time.
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Aug 30, 2019This is a sonic marathon. A steady trot through varied landscapes. The ears glide along a smooth, darkened path before being slammed to the ground by an abrupt tremor and eventual quake in blinding brightness. Keep traveling, keep moving forward and you’ll arrive at the end weary and worn but mesmerized and euphoric.
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Aug 30, 2019Sounds like Tool. Enjoy the change Maynard did with the vocals, and Danny, Justin and Adam all have their moments to shine on the album per usual. Album is just going to get better as I spin it around more and more. Great stuff. Worth the wait.
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Aug 30, 2019This body of work is pure art. Otherworldly mind-blowing and mind-expanding experience.
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Aug 30, 2019
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Aug 30, 2019A less restrained 10,000 days, and better for it. This record, like so many classic prog records, is able to take you on a journey through your psyche. In the future this album will be a touchstone for prog going forward.
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Aug 30, 2019
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Aug 30, 2019These tracks are creatures that come to life and grow to be monumental. Majestic album, with a crystalline production, the typical Tool’s sound that we didn't want to lose and a superfine contrast between delicacy and heaviness of the instruments. We needed it.
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Aug 30, 2019Adds an entire different dimension to music. I love this new album. Especially Invincible and 7empest♥️
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Aug 30, 2019Titanic masterpiece completely smashing all wannabes & shows who's the daddies! Every track is super catchy!
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Aug 30, 2019A masterpiece for Tool fans,
but not for everyone.
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Aug 30, 2019This was a great album. It's hard to compare to their older material but stands on it's own. There are definitely some interesting production choices but just because it doesn't perfectly resemble their older material doesn't mean this wasn't intentional. Once again this is an album that sounds ahead of it's time. Tool's work is usually like that, a brilliant portent of our collective evolution.
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Aug 30, 2019I was in highschool when a friend gave me a black casette with white tentacles. My music taste shifted that day. Now my son is in highschool and he's going to get Fear Inoculum. It has everything I missed on 10,000 Days, and all the pieces of previous albums' craftsmanship. Long awaited friends have finally come to visit us and they're more than welcome to stay.
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Aug 30, 2019
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Aug 30, 2019How do you review an album as layered, intricate and powerful as Fear Inoculum in a few words. A beautiful masterpiece from a band that stretch the parameters musically, lyrically and artistically. It’s been a long 13 years but this album was definitely worth the wait.
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Aug 30, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Aug 30, 2019Well worth the wait for Tool fans. Not likely to win them new ones however!
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Aug 30, 2019It's Tool, Danny Carey is excellent, Adam Jones and Justin Chancellor in the best form of their career, and Maynard, without screams, takes a rol more like a narrator of the songs, but in the end, you have that feeling of satisfaction.
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Aug 30, 2019How do you come back after 13 years and deliver a masterpiece like this? Simply amazing
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Aug 30, 2019Tool's Fear Inoculum is an absolutely fantastic album. Every song is utterly brilliant and it's just a pure masterpiece through and through. 13 years was definitely worth the wait.
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Aug 30, 2019
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Aug 30, 2019Simply the best album I have heard in decades. Recording is out of this world, sounds unbelievable.
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Aug 30, 2019Carey and Chancellor stood out in a superb way. All the songs have amazing build ups to it and the time signatures just fits perfectly. Maynard vocals are really good and melodic.
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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.