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Most times they’re not really angels or devils they’re just friends giving you advice, looking out for your best interest but not really understanding what’s going to be best for you. Seems pretty obvious, right? Usually it’s the angel is kind of the one trying to give him the good advice while the devil is trying to get him to do what’s bad for him. He’s got an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other. cartoons? Sometimes there’s that one where that guy is having a tough time trying to make a decision. “So, any of you ever watched those Warner Bros.
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Though on various occasions Maynard has said the following about the song: Some say the title stands for “Half Empty” (the working title of the song) or most probably “Half Full” and some say it refers Maynard’s son whose middle name is H. The next song ‘H.’ has always divided the band’s followers. Ron Hubbard and criticizes all such “false martyrs” who only wish to fool people into following their ideology rather than follow reason. The brilliant 8 and a half minute song draws parallels between Jesus and L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the Church of Scientology), someone whose views Tool has openly criticized on numerous occasions. The next song in the offering is ‘Eulogy’ and according to drummer Danny Carey, it’s about L.
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Coming to the music video, guitarist Adam Jones directed the video that is nothing short of brilliance and is compared to the works of the great H.R. But yeah Tool’s no stranger to controversy and a song with such connotations was sure to be censored, usually it was named ‘Track#1’ by MTV while airing the video.
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Vocalist Maynard James Keenan used to introduce it as “about choosing compassion over fear”. The 77 minute life altering experience of Ænima starts with a controversial one named ‘Stinkfist’, a beauty of a song that according to drummer Danny Carey might be mistaken for a song about “Fist-f**king” but “Fist-f**king is in actuality a metaphor for the real cause of ailment”. (from right to left Adam Jones, Maynard James Keenan, Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey) And the album isn’t your straight-up-no-sense-just-heavy-guitars-ear-shattering-drums-unintelligible-vocals (as most people think of Metal) Ænima is one of the most beautiful albums to ever emerge from the artistic vertex of any musician or band in the 1990s. According to me, it stands for cleansing of the soul from your backside it’s kind of what Metallica wanted to name their debut album i.e. The title is a combination of Anima (Latin for ‘soul’, often refers to “life force”) and Enema (the medical procedure). With the success of Undertow, Tool went on to record an album that earned them their first ever Grammy win (Best Metal Performance for the title track), one that is considered one of the best and most influential albums of all time. So in this article I’ll talk about an album that further cemented Tool’s image as an uncompromising, brutal, sophisticated, introspective, and a thinking man’s metal band with songs that beautifully change the very course of synapses in your brain. As I remember, in the last article I talked about Tool’s origins and formation and their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Opiate’ and debut album ‘Undertow’.