The First Reaction To Tool’s New Song Fear Inoculum

So, it’s started. Here begins the end of the wait. In 23 days, we will have the full thing, Fear Inoculum in all its lengthy, twisted, long-awaited glory. That for the most painfully-anticipated album of the year the band have barely made a peep, teased almost nothing, and given very few proper, concrete signals on anything to do with anything, is actually the most reliably expected thing around the whole enterprise. Tool have always operated like this – and with almost a decade and a half of basically going ‘I dunno, LOL’ as the answer to any questions about when the follow-up to 10,000 Days is coming, they have got extremely good at appearing to tease while giving away absolutely fuck all. Now we have a piece of the puzzle, the album’s sprawling title-track, what does it all mean? O...

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