It took five years but every masterpiece takes time. This album is everything we have come to love and expect from Tool.

Deep meaningful lyrics, fantastic instrumentals, inspiring vocals, and a epic journey through every track.

I recently took very ill and spent nearly a week in critical care. A friend bought me this album and a cd player at the beginning of the week and by the end I'd heard this album maybe two hundred times.

It doesn't get boring and every song has unexplored depth within it. For example one of the songs; rosetta stoned, has lyrics relating to an alien encounter, one of the lines reads - and it looked right through me, with somniferous almond eyes.

I was curious what somniferous actually meant, yes I'm a nerd for words, so I looked it up. I could only find one reference under google - define search, which is unusual, and it turns out its a very obscure word that means sleep inducing, which is A-typical of the claimed experiences of alien… more »

It took five years but every masterpiece takes time. This album is everything we have come to love and expect from Tool.

Deep meaningful lyrics, fantastic instrumentals, inspiring vocals, and a epic journey through every track.

I recently took very ill and spent nearly a week in critical care. A friend bought me this album and a cd player at the beginning of the week and by the end I'd heard this album maybe two hundred times.

It doesn't get boring and every song has unexplored depth within it. For example one of the songs; rosetta stoned, has lyrics relating to an alien encounter, one of the lines reads - and it looked right through me, with somniferous almond eyes.

I was curious what somniferous actually meant, yes I'm a nerd for words, so I looked it up. I could only find one reference under google - define search, which is unusual, and it turns out its a very obscure word that means sleep inducing, which is A-typical of the claimed experiences of alien abductees.

Lyrics later in the song are just so brilliant they make you laugh out loud.

A great album, I cannot recomend it enough. Buy it, love it and get ready for the next album, let's just hope we don't have to wait another five years!