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This is false. While I'm not one of those people, folks go nuts over that shit. I don't get it either.

NIN made a definitive, lasting impression from that sound. Trent Reznor scores movies because of that sound. To say it has no appeal is silly. It has no appeal to you.

I'm not the biggest NIN fan so maybe I've missed it, but I've never heard anything coming out of that band that sounds like a robot singing or electronic DJ beats.

Sure techno music has a following, afterall guys like Skrillex make a pretty healthy living, but relatively speaking in the music industry its in the dumpsters.

It's been 12 years, there's little hope of that happening.

It's already been announced. It's coming next year.

Beat me to it.

It was 14 years in between APC albums (if you exclude their covers album). Tool is currently tracking the different instruments for the new album and after that Maynard needs to do the vocals/mixing/etc. It will be out in 2019.

Spoken like a true Chiefs fan.

One of my favorite tracks. And it sounds nothing like "techno" or dubstep. The chorus is somewhat of a "robot voice" as you call it but the rest of the song is very melodic and features Maynard's real voice.

I keep trying to listen to this album. I keep failing because I get 3 or 4 songs in and find myself struggling to be even remotely interested. It just doesn’t grab me at all.

I’m afraid I’m going to feel the same about the next TOOL album as well. 10,000 Days was somewhat of a letdown and I don’t see how this one can even be that good.

Dunno why people take this album as such a departure from what this band does.. go back and re listen to the old albums, its the same shit.

Take a song like Orestes for example. You could put it right on this album and no one would know it wasn't recorded in the same decade.

I know this is all subjective, but 10,000 Days was a musical triumph, IMO. Right in Two is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

On a separate note, have any of you listened to any Tool covers? Notice how they're pretty close to the original, with slight variations coming in the form of harmonies or different instrumentation? I think that says a ton about the quality of the original pieces.

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EDIT: Sorry to make this thread about Tool. Can't help it ;)

Typically old rich men do not make the best rock or metal music.

For me, Rosetta Stoned is the best piece of music from 10,000 Days. Right in Two is probably my 2nd favorite, but it’s probably the most derivative song they’ve ever done. Granted, it’s mostly self-derivative, but whatever. On the whole, it’s the only album of theirs that doesn’t feel like a cohesive whole, it just feels like a collection of unrelated songs. Easily my least favorite. To each his own though.

Rosetta Stoned is the last song on the album I got into - boy, was that a mistake. It's so damn good. Heavy, intense. All of that.

I get your feel on the cohesive part. Although Lateralus is the perfect example of what an album can be as a Sum, I typically don't care/bother to listen to music in that fashion. Single songs are fine by me. Maybe that's why I like 10,000 Days so much - Vicarious, Jambi, The Pot, Right in Two, Rosetta Stoned - all god-tier songs.