Publication: Launch.com
Date: March, 2001
Transcribed by
Richard Routh (thirdeye978@hotmail.com)
Richard Routh (thirdeye978@hotmail.com)
page: title: Tool Goes Artsy On 'Lateralus' author: Darren Davis Tool's new album Lateralus, slated for a May 15 release, just may be the band's most adventurous and progressive to date. The first single from the album will be "Schism," which is one of the shorter songs on the album, clocking in at 6:43. The band began shooting the video for the song on Thursday (March 28). As a whole, the album is a progressive and futuristic opus, which features five songs that are more than seven minutes long. One song, "Reflection," clocks in at 11:08. Singer Maynard James Keenan keeps in the melodic mode on most of the album, which has fewer impassioned screams compared to the band's earlier albums, Undertow and Aenima. One of the most intense tracks on the album is the scary "Faaip De Oiad," which is filled with drums in the background and an intense wall of static. A voice seems to cross through static hum talking about some sort of alien invasion. The words "...the Government knows about them..." are among the most audible. The futuristic edge to the album surfaces in songs "Eon Blue Apocalypse," "Parabol," and "Reflection." The shortest song, "Mantra," clocks in at 1:12, and sounds like whales' echoes. The album was co-produced by Tool and David Bottrill, who mixed and engineered the album. The band recorded in Hollywood and North Hollywood, California at Hook, Big Empty Space, the Lodge, and Cello. The artwork for the album art, designed by guitarist Adam Jones, resembles an artsy pulmonary man, showing the veins, arteries, and muscle structure. Tracks for Lateralus include (in order): "The Grudge," "Eon Blue Apocalypse," "The Patient," "Mantra," "Schism," "Parabol," "Parabola," "Ticks & Leeches," "Lateralus," "Disposition," "Reflection," "Triad," and "Faaip De Oiad."
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