Publication: Soundi
Date: April, 2001
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Atte (qlqnen@hotmail.com)
page: title: Salival review author: Jouko Ruokosenmäki TOOL Salival Volcano Entertainment Beautifully packaged Salival includes six live performances, a couple of previously unreleased studio recordings and a VHS or a DVD containing gorgeous videos from their previous albums. Tool isn't any more nimble live than it is on record. Singer Maynard spits nihilistic rage in his listeners' ears and Adam Jones' riffs grind an angry message through even the thickest skull. Tool rolls an insane and sick world for us to face. A place where the only way to survive is cynisism. The ten minute piece Third Eye with it's dark, occultist references and wavy soundworld, is a model example of the band's way of shocking their listeners. A more straight-forward Part of Me is one of the brusquest relationship song ever put on a rock album. A revamped version for the road of Pushit and the previously unreleased Merkaba offer a quick moment of breath from the relentless distress, but both songs go back to claustrophobia and chaos after their brisk start. Message to Harry Manback II continues the story of a pissed off ex- roommate, while Lame's "mini- radio play" grimly grins at the hell of bureaucracy and technology. Tool urges people to question authority. Drug guru Timothy Leary offers an declaration against the powers that be as an intro for Salival. Appropriately loose version of No Quarter gives Tool a chance for a bow to the heritage of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. While waiting for the new studio album Salival gives a little something for the Tool-hungry friends of rock, who won't be scared off so easily. Jouko Ruokosenmäki **** (out of five stars)
Posted to t.d.n: 10/31/02 18:31:38