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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
There are 4 or 5 good songs, and of those one or two REALLY good songs. You really can't complain too much about that when you compare it to some of the garbage getting released these days. Albums with one good song and the rest is filler......rinse and repeat.
7empest is my fav so far. Classic Tool riffs, MJK vocals and of course fu*king ridiculous drumming. Invincible would have been my instant fav, bit it seems like it fell short on the crescendo near the end. It builds and builds.....and then just ends. I was hoping for a major increase in pace and furor, which is the classic Tool style like at the end of Vicarious or The Pot where MJK is screaming his eyeballs out to keep pace with FURIOUS instrumentals.
THAT is why I love Tool so much. You feel like you just ran a marathon and won a fist fight at the end of each song.
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I had this thought as well, that Maynard takes a bit more of a back seat to the musicians on this record. There were times on 7empest that I thought he was going to sing but then nothing. I will say it appears as though is he is doing more weird layered vocal stuff like intermittent breaths of air on some tracks. Really next level studio stuff.
If you get a chance, listen to the Trap Set podcast where he interviews Danny Carey. Fantastic insight into what went into the record and neat tidbits about how he played in a country band with Jeff Buckley for two years.
