Recently I bought Aenima after some persuasion from my friends, who told me tool was the best band ever. Just to see if I could find a band better than sevendust of killswitch I bought it with high hopes of finding that one great band. When I opened the cd case I saw something strange on the cd itself. I looked closer and, WHOA! There was a guy sucking his own member! I don't know if this was supposed to be funny or gross, but I do know tool might have some problems. Not that I was offended, but it just weird.
I pop the cd in forgeting about what was on it, and I start listening. The first track was good, noticable bass, and tool seemed to know what they were doing. When I started the second song I waited through 60 seconds of filler then fast forwarded to the beggining of the actual song. I did this through all the songs since tool doens't understand that no or little sound at the begginning of a song is good for one song, but after that it is only filler. Plus there are only seven true songs, the rest are just fillers with talking or the normal slow insturmentation of tool. Plus on the Denver metal station these guys are way overplayed, which makes them slightly annoying. Another thing is that their true songs sonud alike, which isn't bad for me, but it could make some people angry.
Truthfully this may not be my style of music. I am mostly a hardcore, metalcore, nu-metal, and occasional death and black metal listener. I don't know where to classify tool so I'm not even going to try. The truth is that if this had been a seven song EP it would have been a five star review, but the fillers just killed this cd. So if you like darker nu-metal you might enjoy this, but if you like heavier metal you probably will not. So in final, this cd was alright, but it shouldn't have had all the fillers.