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Tool aenima album history
Tool aenima album history













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That’s not to say there wasn’t anger on the album. “Something kind of sad about, the way that things have come to be…desensitised to everything, what became of subtlety”. Perhaps it was the air-play that ‘Stinkfist’ was getting on TripleJ a kind of updated ‘Sober’, sharing a hypnotic deep bass pulse, but seemingly different in tone.

tool aenima album history

Given my history with the band’s music, it’s surprising to me now that I even played the CD. A friend’s house is burgled he claims insurance on his treasured CD collection, but later realises that one CD he had repurchased with the payout had not in fact been stolen. On a work-related tour of a Coke factory, I spot a pretty girl who worked for the same company as me. I am given a managerial job with more sensible hours. And then, the pivot – springing up through multiple events in different aspects of my life. Life feeds on life, feeds on life, feeds on life…”īy ’96, I had moved house, but negativity lingered. A miasma of anger, fatigue and hopelessness permeated the air, and Undertow was – for me – the distorted, grinding noise of those emotions. The emptiness of the soul at 11pm, stumbling into a subordination-signifying uniform, as others disappear to their beds for the night, is difficult to describe. Months later, working midnight shifts and trying to sleep during the day while ‘Prison Sex’ was belting out in the room beside at 100dB, I had developed a certain hate for Tool’s music. “I’ve heard good things about this one”, I remarked, pointing it out. Living in a share house with surfer friends, on a visit to a record store I helpfully suggested the album to a housemate looking for new music. Tool’s previous album, Undertow (1993), sadly provides some of the soundtrack to the dark days. Whether by coincidence in time or as the root cause of change I cannot say nevertheless the album now has a catalytic feel to it when I reminisce on decades past. The album sits at the chronological fulcrum on which my life in the 1990s pivots, from dark days to brighter. This is the word that best sums up the feeling of my personal encounter with Tool’s Ænima, originally released on vinyl on September 17, 1996.















Tool aenima album history