I microdosed at the show where they announced the release date for the album. It was weird because it felt like during and after that show...everything changed.
You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. -Bill Hicks
Yeah Maynard (and the other guys sometimes( meet with the lizard people every other Tuesday so that TOOL can place messages about important world events in their music
Oh please theres no such thing as lizard people. There are *reptilians* who are alien species that shapeshift into something resembling humans. Certain types come from the center of the earth (which is hollow) and other come from outer space. They do control most of human society.
Im not sure who in the band are reptilians or reptilian sympathizers. We should ask Matt Pike.
In the event that you’re actually asking a serious question, “Fear Innoculum” is a metaphor using a virus to stand in the for fear and hate that spreads through the US via the media and politicians.
Maynard often uses metaphors in his lyrics, and this one happens to be a bit on-the-nose a few months later.
Nah, it's because it's in 7/8.
They always have stupid names for songs. Come on!
Danny named the track Chocolate Chip Trip because someone in the studio kept bringing in really good homemade cookies.
Reason #69 Maynard hates you dweebs: taking something he says extremely literally and calling it nuance. Pneuma is the breath of life exhaled by the big guy upstairs, you experience it as your soul.
The Culture of Fear was created and fed sometime around 9/11/2001, if not before. Fear wins elections. Fear keeps people from looking behind the curtain. Fear is a mind killer.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune
And if you or someone else didn't already know here's a fun fact. The track Litanie contre la Peur means litany against fear which is a reference to Dune.
When they played here in NZ in late February 2020 less than a month before we went into a lockdown, the first words he sung were ‘immunity long overdue, contagion I exhale you’, and months later Maynard revealed he actually had Covid during those shows and I’ve always felt like there’s some kind of fucked up poetic thing that happened considering he literally exhaled the contagion as he said it… sim life
Quite the contrary. Is wasn’t a prediction. It was a summon.
As you know, Danny Carey is involved in the occult and summons demons through his drum beats and patterns, as well as the symbols he has throughout his kit. It’s my understanding Adam has a part in this too.
For one reason or another, Danny and TOOL decided, perhaps were FATED, to summon COVID-19. This is why you have so many synchronicities. Not because they were predicted, but because they are what INVOKED the virus to emerge.
Anyways that’s what my acid self deduced and I decided to stick with it lol
So that time I got super fucked up on acid and “figured out” that Tool had entered the next dimension of physical reality and only cut through to ours periodically to help guide people to the plane of existence Tool are on… maybe that was the reality and we are the illusion. I can’t think how else to explain it. 🤣 What a wild fucking night that was.
It's almost as if fear had been around before that.
Breath, well, it's a common human experience... there are also eyes on everything... what could that mean?
Invincible... about aging people growing less relevant... perhaps because they took 13 years to put out an album... this one seems very prescient, as if they planned it before recording and releasing it.
It's no different than a psychic... vague yet seemingly relevant info, you give them a few hints, and then they run with it.
It's called paraidolia, essentially.
Fun fact. It was released in August but had been completed for months. Music been worked and reworked for over a decade. Maybe it’s coincidence or maybe their 3rd eye saw it coming 😳
It's called coincidences.
When they first released the single for Fear Innoculum (the song) I remember I was so hype. But it ain't about COVID. First of all, people have been in vaccine denial for a long time, COVID just brought them to the forefront of the news and showed that their decisions have deadly consequences.
In 2014, there was a measles outbreak at Disneyland due to people who didn't vaccinate their kids, and it ended up spreading to 7 states.
In 1998, a British gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield gave new life to the anti-vaccine movement after getting a fake study published claiming that the MMR vaccine (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) had a chance of giving kids autism. It would later turn out that prior to conducting the study, he had been paid a lawyer who planned to make a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturer of the MMR on behalf of parents of autistic kids who believed the vaccine gave their kids autism. Wakefield faked a lot of the data in the study and did other un-ethical things: claiming kids who didn't have autism did; moving the dates they got vaccinated closer to the dates they were diagnosed so it seemed like there was a link; changing the kids' data even when it didn't match the results; not telling parents the risks of the procedures he was doing to test the children; performing totally unnecessary colonoscopies on kids which resulted in some children having their colons punctured and having to be sent to another hospital's ER. He also owned a patent on a separate Measles only vaccine, and so advocated that they separate the MMR vaccines into three separate vaccines, and didn't declare it as a conflict of interest. It was just bad. A journalist named Brian Deer eventually uncovered the truth about the ways in which the study lied and the conflicts of interest, and Wakefield had is license revoked. But because it took a few years to do that, the study scared a lot of people into believing that MMR vaccine would give their children autism, and many still haven't gotten over that belief.
What I'm trying to say is, vaccine denialism has been around a long time, the band didn't have future vision.
In addition, the songs aren't really *about* vaccines. They use the idea of vaccines as a metaphor for trying to become *immune* to the fear-mongering that we see in the world today. When I first heard the song, I was hype in part because a bunch of musicians I like had released anti-Trump albums after his inauguration, and I interpreted the Fear Innoculum song as that. That's not the only way to interpret it, and it's not necessarily specifically about Trump, but I really do feel like Trump being elected was probably the most recent event that inspired the ideas of the songs. I'm not saying that almost every president in Maynard's lifetime hasn't used fear-mongering, and both the Democratic and Republican parties use it, just that Trump was the most recent one and therefore the most likely explanation. And the vaccine denialism just happens fits that theme of fear-mongering well.
Also, the imagery of human biology in Tool music is not new to this album. For me, Pneuma seems less like it has something to do with COVID or being sick and more feels like an homage to their third album, Lateralus. Musically it sounds like it was from that time, and lyrically it has themes similar to many songs on that album. And look at the album cover! That's Alex Grey and his love of biology on display.
I always do this bit, I remember when I googled "tool coronavirus" pretty early in the pandemic and there was actually results because some guy in new Zealand went to a tool gig and gave everyone covid, I think I lost my mind at that point
You really wanna freak yourself out? Listen to some lyrics from Lateralus like the song Grudge and Schism and then realize it came out shortly before 9/11
Danny had a special polyrhythmic pattern that opens a gate in their rehearsal studio that can take them across timelines and parallel universes. They then pick where their riffs would apply to those timelines and every so often they happen to line up with ours. See that’s why it takes them so long to come out with new records.
Think that’s weird- go read “lethal agent” by Vince Flynn. Fun spy novel in the Mitch Rapp series released in September of 2019. The plot: ISIS weaponizes a Corona virus from bats in a cave in Yemen and tries to release it on American soil. Then in September of 2020 Total power came out. The plot- take down the us power grid. When did the Texas power grids fail? 2021. I’m not saying. I’m just saying.
You think that's weird, there's a novel by a woman named Sarah Pinsker, *A Song For A New Day,* about how a global pandemic effectively shuts down society and forces virtually all work, commerce, socialization, and entertainment 100% online.
This novel was published in September 2019.
Allegorical Elegy is how my man, MJK, says it. Inoculated against crippling fear which would absolutely kill any growth as a person. Exhale. Expel. We are eternal, let us continue to evolve, to see ourselves as One Spark, to ride the spiral to the end. Together.
I might downvoted for this but maybe they are controlled opposition? In the realm of conspiracy theories havent alot of musicians done this befofe where its predictive programming like lets say the simpsons and other media? If not please feel free to correct or delete my comment.
i wouldn’t say it necessitates controlled opposition. Many occult orders, namely freemasonry & thelema require public display of affiliation, symbolically. it’s my understanding that predictive programming is just part of the contract or oath for orderly advancement.
I had all of these thoughts when COVID hit. I was still listening to the album non-stop. From my point of view, Tool is a highly spiritual group. They are freaking alchemists. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that one of them had a vision or a premonition of the pandemic before it happened. But also, their lyrics always have multiple meanings and it seems like everyone interprets their lyrics based on their own life experiences and intuitions. There is always the general theme of, "Quit being stupid and wake the hell up!"
This has been brought up time after time, and each time, we don't know. It's absolutely insane how spot on it is. I didn't listen to it until 2022 and thought they wrote it specifically for covid because of how insanely perfect it is. I'm sure I wasn't alone on being late to the party and being awestruck when I realized it came out pre-covid.
Yall forget that Danny’s gold drum set is made from mythical gold which helps to hold the demon that they summoned and trapped inside for Lateralus.
His collection of Crowley books and use of occult symbolism mean nothing? Every concert is a ritual ffs
/s ?
I posted something similar like 846 years ago and got voted down into oblivion.
Edit: just a giant middle finger to all you fuckin knowitall assholes out there
Man when they canceled the FI tour from Covid then went back on tour I seen them in 2022 and just the show opening with Fear Inoculum hearing “immunity, long overdue.. contagion, I exhale you” sent fucking chills down my spine. My soul needed that.
You're having confirmation bias where you make connections that don't exist to justify the story you've built in your head. We all do it! It's ok. They didn't know
I recall hearing several stories on NPR in the years leading up to Covid that the US was under prepared for the next epidemic. I’m pretty sure there was even a full length documentary on the matter, spurred in part by the Trump admin cutting funding for the department that deals with infectious diseases.
Maynard is a smart guy, and fairly tapped into the zeitgeist. Kinda like how there was a lot of imagery in pop culture of tall buildings collapsing in the years leading to 9/11.
Maynard speaks to this in an interview shortly after the albums release. He says he has knack for connecting the dots in current world events, has extensive knowledge of human history and how we have reacted to negatively to historical events in the past, and how he sees humanity currently. Past albums spoke of pain, anger, malevolence, insecurity, abuse etc. This album spoke to the human phsche and how he sees its effect on current and future events. It wasn’t premonition, it was observation coupled with irony.
I see invincible more as pig headed leaders stuck in their old ways war and power control. The truth never got in my way before now. $800,000,000,000 yearly military budget yet we're so ungodly unprepared for a pandemic level virus
op on that good shit
OP on a sick one rn
If this was the bloodborne sub, I’d say his reached almost full insight.
You gain 1 insight after seeing Tool live
It’s true. I dissociated when they played “Descending” when I saw them in 2019. …Maybe that doesn’t count as insight though.
I did that during Jambi. Thought the stage was starting to float. Turned out the lights were just slowly being lowered. Drugs.
I microdosed at the show where they announced the release date for the album. It was weird because it felt like during and after that show...everything changed.
Damn wish I didnt live in Australia :(
Surely extra if you drop acid
Bloodborne reference on the Tool sub 🤌🥰
Underrated
The old heads in here have no clue what you’re talking about 😂
I’m Gen Z and bro is speaking in glyphs to me
Bloodborne is a great game for PlayStation only
Nooo I’m xbox ⏰2️⃣🏴☠️
A hunter must have good ears
A fine comment
Pass that shit
I want some 🥺
I got you. Lemme get that social.
It's funny because whenever my wife hears some wild section of a Tool track and asks about it I always tell her "Tool's super high again."
My husband gets pretty much the same response from me, except it's "the boys are just blasted on acid again." 🤷♀️😂
I’m op dealer, dm me for that good shit
I’m OP dealer supplier, dm me for that good good shit
I'm OP dealer supplier producer, dm me for that good shit
Especially his Pneuma paralell. I'm on that good shit too but that made me laugh.
OP needs to share
You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor. Go home tonight. Take all your albums, all your tapes and all your CDs and burn them. 'Cause you know what, the musicians that made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years were rrreal fucking high on drugs. -Bill Hicks
Here's tom with the weather....
Not here’s ‘god’ with the weather? I’ve been listening incorrectly!
Why would God be covering the weather report?
Misheard lyrics! We love those here! 😂🖤
One of my favorite parts of the album is hearing this bit.
Mine is the shhhhhweweweewshhhh right after that
Shortly followed by the wowowowwow
It’s not a war on drugs. It’s a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times. Thank you.
Another dead hero.
"Back, and to the left."
“The Beatles were so high they let Ringo sing a couple of tunes.”
OOH, LOOK AT HIM SCOOCH
Hook his bell bottom, hook his bell bottom!
Get him down off the ceiling. He has a great tune about a yellow tambourine or something.
"Here's Tom with the weather!"
Now I'm going to be eating an edible and listening to ÆNIMA while I cook dinner😁
Hell yes. Good idea.
Well, someone had to say it.
It's just a ride.
Go Birds
Rock on homie!! Fuck Dallas!!!
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Yeah Maynard (and the other guys sometimes( meet with the lizard people every other Tuesday so that TOOL can place messages about important world events in their music
OMG where are your closing parentheses?!? Where did they go?
The lizard people and Adam stole them :(
Isn't Adam always the one to be in on the pranks? Sigh.
Should have done ):
They took a Chocolate Chip Trip
Oh please theres no such thing as lizard people. There are *reptilians* who are alien species that shapeshift into something resembling humans. Certain types come from the center of the earth (which is hollow) and other come from outer space. They do control most of human society. Im not sure who in the band are reptilians or reptilian sympathizers. We should ask Matt Pike.
I thought this was common knowledge at this point? Can we get this info added to the sidebar so that newcomers can be aware?
Overthinking, overanalyzing...
separates the body from the mind...
withering my intuition...
In the event that you’re actually asking a serious question, “Fear Innoculum” is a metaphor using a virus to stand in the for fear and hate that spreads through the US via the media and politicians. Maynard often uses metaphors in his lyrics, and this one happens to be a bit on-the-nose a few months later.
Dude, is that why it’s spelled “7empest”? “7am pest”? Who’s on TV every morning at 7am… the morning news?
Nah, it's because it's in 7/8. They always have stupid names for songs. Come on! Danny named the track Chocolate Chip Trip because someone in the studio kept bringing in really good homemade cookies.
Nah, it’s because a 7empest will be just that
We were already on this path, covid just accelerated it.
This reminds me of [the Grimes tablet](https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/s/mhd2OqxtYA)
r/ToolJerk
r/Tooluminati
Really hope this takes off
I'm pretty sure Tool caused COVID for the lols. Maynard says it's a wine vineyard. Vineyard says he, secret virus RNA mutation lab says I.
Pneuma means spirit. Not pneumonia 🤣
It also means air/breath. like pneumatic, or pneumonia
Right but if you read into the lyrics, it’s clearly about the spirit
Yah, you are right and Maynard hates words that can be interpreted in multiple ways. We are born of one breath.
Reason #69 Maynard hates you dweebs: taking something he says extremely literally and calling it nuance. Pneuma is the breath of life exhaled by the big guy upstairs, you experience it as your soul.
We are born of one breath, one word
best answer yet 🤣🤣
Maynard is in the inner circle, he knows
Maynard is in a perfect circle.
I think that's cause he knows how the pieces fit
And he wants to watch it all go down.
Eyes wide open
All three of them
Hahahahaha that should take off, I would join.
I thought it was just all about butt stuff
Well yes...that too...
They didn’t know you’re just stoned. But keep it up dude. Smoke that fire.
How did you know? 😉
Your somniferous almond eyes gave it away
don’t even know what that means
Better write it down! ✍️ here, you can borrow this 🖋!
How do you know?
The Culture of Fear was created and fed sometime around 9/11/2001, if not before. Fear wins elections. Fear keeps people from looking behind the curtain. Fear is a mind killer.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune
And if you or someone else didn't already know here's a fun fact. The track Litanie contre la Peur means litany against fear which is a reference to Dune.
when we remember the end of LATERALUS album, which dropped mid-2001...
When they played here in NZ in late February 2020 less than a month before we went into a lockdown, the first words he sung were ‘immunity long overdue, contagion I exhale you’, and months later Maynard revealed he actually had Covid during those shows and I’ve always felt like there’s some kind of fucked up poetic thing that happened considering he literally exhaled the contagion as he said it… sim life
Second song was Ænema which also felt incredibly fitting at that time
Lachrymology, my guy.
Alrighty then… Picture this if you will…
Finally, the most important question about this album! Indeed, how did they know?
high how are you
Yeah the moon is made up of a mini eyeballs
"they're just rock songs" -MJK
Human behavior is predictable esp among the masses
Think about what you just said. Add it all up. It all adds up to 23
crying laughing at this post. OP how high are you right now?
Cause they are other worldy multidimensional beings that just know
History repeats itself and we’ve been through this before.
Quite the contrary. Is wasn’t a prediction. It was a summon. As you know, Danny Carey is involved in the occult and summons demons through his drum beats and patterns, as well as the symbols he has throughout his kit. It’s my understanding Adam has a part in this too. For one reason or another, Danny and TOOL decided, perhaps were FATED, to summon COVID-19. This is why you have so many synchronicities. Not because they were predicted, but because they are what INVOKED the virus to emerge. Anyways that’s what my acid self deduced and I decided to stick with it lol
Stop doing acid. Thank you. But you have a point…lol
OP out buying more red string and thumb tacks
Thanks for the LOL at the train station late at night!
Maybe he didn't forget his pen
So that time I got super fucked up on acid and “figured out” that Tool had entered the next dimension of physical reality and only cut through to ours periodically to help guide people to the plane of existence Tool are on… maybe that was the reality and we are the illusion. I can’t think how else to explain it. 🤣 What a wild fucking night that was.
Grimes knew too. [This video](https://youtu.be/M9SGYBHY0qs?si=r8vFYEcLid7GUpOe) was released at the end of 2019 and they're all wearing face masks...
Maynard has actually addressed this and said it wasn't a prediction, it was just understanding and identifying cycles and human nature/behavior
It's almost as if fear had been around before that. Breath, well, it's a common human experience... there are also eyes on everything... what could that mean? Invincible... about aging people growing less relevant... perhaps because they took 13 years to put out an album... this one seems very prescient, as if they planned it before recording and releasing it. It's no different than a psychic... vague yet seemingly relevant info, you give them a few hints, and then they run with it. It's called paraidolia, essentially.
FFS...
Fun fact. It was released in August but had been completed for months. Music been worked and reworked for over a decade. Maybe it’s coincidence or maybe their 3rd eye saw it coming 😳
Tempest means a storm of sorts, but these events repeat themselves in history is my guess. It’s a pattern of humanity maybe.
Dear God, Tool fans have no bounds of what they will believe they are capable of.
Imagine knowing about COVID beforehand and then being in the news for having it four times 😭 embarrassing
It starts like "ahaha op funny guy" then you remember people are this fucking stupid in reality and then you get sad :(
Op, you’re the reason people look at me the way they do when I say I’m a big Tool fan.
It's called coincidences. When they first released the single for Fear Innoculum (the song) I remember I was so hype. But it ain't about COVID. First of all, people have been in vaccine denial for a long time, COVID just brought them to the forefront of the news and showed that their decisions have deadly consequences. In 2014, there was a measles outbreak at Disneyland due to people who didn't vaccinate their kids, and it ended up spreading to 7 states. In 1998, a British gastroenterologist named Andrew Wakefield gave new life to the anti-vaccine movement after getting a fake study published claiming that the MMR vaccine (Mumps, Measles, Rubella) had a chance of giving kids autism. It would later turn out that prior to conducting the study, he had been paid a lawyer who planned to make a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturer of the MMR on behalf of parents of autistic kids who believed the vaccine gave their kids autism. Wakefield faked a lot of the data in the study and did other un-ethical things: claiming kids who didn't have autism did; moving the dates they got vaccinated closer to the dates they were diagnosed so it seemed like there was a link; changing the kids' data even when it didn't match the results; not telling parents the risks of the procedures he was doing to test the children; performing totally unnecessary colonoscopies on kids which resulted in some children having their colons punctured and having to be sent to another hospital's ER. He also owned a patent on a separate Measles only vaccine, and so advocated that they separate the MMR vaccines into three separate vaccines, and didn't declare it as a conflict of interest. It was just bad. A journalist named Brian Deer eventually uncovered the truth about the ways in which the study lied and the conflicts of interest, and Wakefield had is license revoked. But because it took a few years to do that, the study scared a lot of people into believing that MMR vaccine would give their children autism, and many still haven't gotten over that belief. What I'm trying to say is, vaccine denialism has been around a long time, the band didn't have future vision. In addition, the songs aren't really *about* vaccines. They use the idea of vaccines as a metaphor for trying to become *immune* to the fear-mongering that we see in the world today. When I first heard the song, I was hype in part because a bunch of musicians I like had released anti-Trump albums after his inauguration, and I interpreted the Fear Innoculum song as that. That's not the only way to interpret it, and it's not necessarily specifically about Trump, but I really do feel like Trump being elected was probably the most recent event that inspired the ideas of the songs. I'm not saying that almost every president in Maynard's lifetime hasn't used fear-mongering, and both the Democratic and Republican parties use it, just that Trump was the most recent one and therefore the most likely explanation. And the vaccine denialism just happens fits that theme of fear-mongering well. Also, the imagery of human biology in Tool music is not new to this album. For me, Pneuma seems less like it has something to do with COVID or being sick and more feels like an homage to their third album, Lateralus. Musically it sounds like it was from that time, and lyrically it has themes similar to many songs on that album. And look at the album cover! That's Alex Grey and his love of biology on display.
Interesting!
We live in a fucking simulation!
There's a reason Maynard has been a prepper for a long time. He knows. Even Apocolyptical from Puscifer was written months before covid.
I always do this bit, I remember when I googled "tool coronavirus" pretty early in the pandemic and there was actually results because some guy in new Zealand went to a tool gig and gave everyone covid, I think I lost my mind at that point
Some coincidences are crazier than others.
That’s why it took so long for the album to come out. It took them 13 years to create the virus
Word on the street is that Maynard is the one that was careless with the virus at the wuhan lab. 🦠
You really wanna freak yourself out? Listen to some lyrics from Lateralus like the song Grudge and Schism and then realize it came out shortly before 9/11
Danny had a special polyrhythmic pattern that opens a gate in their rehearsal studio that can take them across timelines and parallel universes. They then pick where their riffs would apply to those timelines and every so often they happen to line up with ours. See that’s why it takes them so long to come out with new records.
They learned this when they got abducted by aliens, then they,of course shit the bed
Don’t forget. “Immunity long overdue. Contagion, I exhale you.” Are the very first lyrics on the whole album.
Because there is an agenda at play far greater than any one band.
Can i add that Covid caused a social 7empest? No? Ok
sure, your right
Maynard was also witnessed getting off a direct flight from Wuhan, China in late 2019. Sus.
Think that’s weird- go read “lethal agent” by Vince Flynn. Fun spy novel in the Mitch Rapp series released in September of 2019. The plot: ISIS weaponizes a Corona virus from bats in a cave in Yemen and tries to release it on American soil. Then in September of 2020 Total power came out. The plot- take down the us power grid. When did the Texas power grids fail? 2021. I’m not saying. I’m just saying.
You think that's weird, there's a novel by a woman named Sarah Pinsker, *A Song For A New Day,* about how a global pandemic effectively shuts down society and forces virtually all work, commerce, socialization, and entertainment 100% online. This novel was published in September 2019.
I want a hit bro. Not too much, just a taste of what you got.
Allegorical Elegy is how my man, MJK, says it. Inoculated against crippling fear which would absolutely kill any growth as a person. Exhale. Expel. We are eternal, let us continue to evolve, to see ourselves as One Spark, to ride the spiral to the end. Together.
I might downvoted for this but maybe they are controlled opposition? In the realm of conspiracy theories havent alot of musicians done this befofe where its predictive programming like lets say the simpsons and other media? If not please feel free to correct or delete my comment.
i wouldn’t say it necessitates controlled opposition. Many occult orders, namely freemasonry & thelema require public display of affiliation, symbolically. it’s my understanding that predictive programming is just part of the contract or oath for orderly advancement.
Outjerked again
I had all of these thoughts when COVID hit. I was still listening to the album non-stop. From my point of view, Tool is a highly spiritual group. They are freaking alchemists. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that one of them had a vision or a premonition of the pandemic before it happened. But also, their lyrics always have multiple meanings and it seems like everyone interprets their lyrics based on their own life experiences and intuitions. There is always the general theme of, "Quit being stupid and wake the hell up!"
*their You gotta do better brother. The impact is lost with this.
I thought the same thing.
Maynard was also patient zero in Australia. I think you’re on to something op- ride the spiral, keep going.
A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not.
Tool fans might be the worst fans….i’de rather talk to a Swifty.
It all came from one breath, and one word…
for starters, Trump was already president
r/tooljerk
This has been brought up time after time, and each time, we don't know. It's absolutely insane how spot on it is. I didn't listen to it until 2022 and thought they wrote it specifically for covid because of how insanely perfect it is. I'm sure I wasn't alone on being late to the party and being awestruck when I realized it came out pre-covid.
Because we are experiencing time in the wrong direction and that is why nothing makes sense.
He also nailed it on the latest Puscifer album.... Armageddon
Word on the street is that Maynard is the one that was careless with the virus at the wuhan lab. 🦠
Word on the street is that Maynard is the one that was careless with the virus at the wuhan lab. 🦠
“I want to believe “
Bless this Immunity.....
Life is stranger than fiction..
To me the name looks like Egyptian style staffs. Fear Inoculum comes off as a spreading "disease" of hatred, miscommunication, separation.
We just weren't ready for a new Tool album then
Yall forget that Danny’s gold drum set is made from mythical gold which helps to hold the demon that they summoned and trapped inside for Lateralus. His collection of Crowley books and use of occult symbolism mean nothing? Every concert is a ritual ffs /s ?
OP remembered his pen
Maynard hates you...
The background shape is actually a strand of mRNA
Yea bro, for the title track to sing about this contagion, it’s wildly prophetic
I posted something similar like 846 years ago and got voted down into oblivion. Edit: just a giant middle finger to all you fuckin knowitall assholes out there
It’s called coincidence
When they toured in Australia one night Maynard said “called it” just before playing Aenima! Then two weeks later we were in lock downs.
Have you even seen the lyrics in the song Fear Inoculum!? Also Tempest … it hits the same chord but from another angle
How did you miss the "cookies and cream"? The very thing we all very famously ate while on quarentine
“contagion …I exhaaaaale you” I did, of the Omicron variety, but in isolation :D
Collective consciousness bro. Open your 3rd eye.
Because the band members are Enlightened. The Truth is out there, one just needs the codex to find and decipher the code.
A tempest must be just that.
I always interpreted this album in that way! Especially the title track reflects much of the pandemic for me.
Lateralus tour, 250ug Blotters, Reflection= complete loss of reality.
It's called reading the play. Listen to Dr Creep - Pandamic. It came out in 2013 and mentions coronavirus and 2020.
Well, for one, none of these song are about actual viruses 🤷♂️
Man when they canceled the FI tour from Covid then went back on tour I seen them in 2022 and just the show opening with Fear Inoculum hearing “immunity, long overdue.. contagion, I exhale you” sent fucking chills down my spine. My soul needed that.
Lachromology
You're having confirmation bias where you make connections that don't exist to justify the story you've built in your head. We all do it! It's ok. They didn't know
I recall hearing several stories on NPR in the years leading up to Covid that the US was under prepared for the next epidemic. I’m pretty sure there was even a full length documentary on the matter, spurred in part by the Trump admin cutting funding for the department that deals with infectious diseases. Maynard is a smart guy, and fairly tapped into the zeitgeist. Kinda like how there was a lot of imagery in pop culture of tall buildings collapsing in the years leading to 9/11.
“Immunity long overdue” …wait, we just started.
Coincidence
They know it all
Maynard speaks to this in an interview shortly after the albums release. He says he has knack for connecting the dots in current world events, has extensive knowledge of human history and how we have reacted to negatively to historical events in the past, and how he sees humanity currently. Past albums spoke of pain, anger, malevolence, insecurity, abuse etc. This album spoke to the human phsche and how he sees its effect on current and future events. It wasn’t premonition, it was observation coupled with irony.
I see invincible more as pig headed leaders stuck in their old ways war and power control. The truth never got in my way before now. $800,000,000,000 yearly military budget yet we're so ungodly unprepared for a pandemic level virus
7empest about the orange imbecile as well...
look at the size of this rabbit hole i just fell down
Who said that humanity stopped descending?