Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time! And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
1. I commend this guy's research & dedication to discovering the deeper mythos of Fear Inoculum. 2. I could only make it half way through this video. I then put on my tin foil hat, assumed a yoga position in the shape of a 7, and beamed my soul out to the planet Saturn.
I’ve seen them at least ten times. I can never figure out if they write things so deep, or if the things they write can just be interpreted on many different levels. That is what makes Tool one of the best bands ever! 300 years from now, I think people will examine their music like we do Beethoven’s today.
Please read: I have absolutely no idea why TH-cam compressed this video so much. The mp4 file itself is so much more clear and sharp. Maybe I'll make that available.
Feel free to link us to a downloadable version of the non-compressed video for our own studies and libraries. Thank you so much for your hard work! I've been waiting for this video to come out!
@@o-REDBEARD-o come on, it's not shit, he's just breaking down their awesome symbolics, it's funny af but not schizophrenic. I am occultist myself, but daaaamn I had a good laugh 🤭
It’s weird. I’ve always loved this band, but in the last month or two, I’ve started to ‘get it’. Pretty fucking amazing when you start realizing the messages their music is conveying. It’s all of course subjective and down the individuals interpretation of it, but the main thing is, is it’s all good.
@@juliemontgomery3798 i respect and love tool to a major extent. But numbers... below 1000... well... even numbers in general, Will always be able and connected and patterned easily. This dude did his research and def put my head in that space again, I learned of things I didn't know and some interesting terms but, Its just tool. Its just good music. Anyway have a great new year. Ps. Lateralus is best album.
@@juliemontgomery3798 which is the number of days it takes masons to traverse into the spirit realm also... the number of secret herbs and spices in kentucky fried chicken
@@jamrep9633 I enjoy Lateralus the most too. That being said, I love all of their music and Maynard’s lyrics. With Danny’s sacred geometry and the length of time between albums, it wouldn’t surprise me if some or all of the numbers are purposeful and significant. On the other hand it could all be coincidental. We may never know for sure. To be honest, all the numbers and research put into this video had my head spinning! I think for me, I’ll just enjoy Tool’s musical masterpieces and not overthink the numbers. I have found Lateralus to be a spiritual experience. My favorite off of FI is Invincible, definitely a masterpiece.
During the music clinic events they did a little while back, some fans asked about Lateralus' theorized reordering in the 'Holy Gift" sequencing, as it seems to flow much more 'perfectly' than the CD ordering. Adam, Danny, and Justin all apparently acted like they had never heard of it, and that they released the album in the ordering that it was intended. Given their mystique, I would assume (as someone else here mentioned) either that A.) TOOL is operating on this insane level, and would want to keep that under wraps/likely would not be able to explain it if they tried. or B.) all of this really is coincidental and/or did happen but the band did not intentionally plan it out. Either way, it would make sense in their position to want to deny any of this, at least to keep up their "mysterious" brand image. Personally, I think-whether intentionally by design of the band or not- the synchronicities in TOOL's music are indeed happening, and contribute to the unique music fans can't seem to get enough of. Paraphrasing Maynard in the video, "I lose nothing believing it is real if it actually isn't," [and conversely; ..."but I may be missing out if I don't believe, and it is real"].
i dont think that they are the usual type of human they would never tell you about it because it will alter your opinion and they always wanted to be a tool for whatever you wish to do if they talk about it the magic is gone becuase we limit our mind they want you to think for yourself question everything this is still a theory about all the numbers they could be wrong from the beginning and tool could be working with wrong numbers but i dont think its about the numbers its about the meaning we give them except for the sacred geometry once ago some1 gave those number meaning but some numbers simply are what they are like pi or the fibonacci squence
Only thing I geeked out truly over is the name of the track Litanie contre la Peur, which translates to Litany against Fear, which is a direct reference to Frank Herbert's Sci-fi classic Dune. Litany against fear: "I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Coincidentally, also has roots in Shakespeare which this video referenced as well.
This video is an amazing piece of work, released on the Solstice and the day of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the 6th and 7th heavenly body. Tool either intended every single one of these alignments or the universe lined them up for Tool. If you think about it, it’s the same thing. As above, so below. Thanks for all your hard work... I’ll be watching this MANY times.
@@MrMobileVortex I mean....33 or 58 are pretty specific numbers. You can only go so far with them. If one really thinks that the prevalence of 58 all throughout the album (and honestly I barely scratched the surface), like for example in Pneuma, the numerical additive sum of 7empest's 15:43, the numerical value of Noah, which is highly likely related to 7empest and Maynard's future catastrophe undercurrent, the abbreviated form of the name of Metatron the angel of the first sphere, which has a numerical sum of 620 which is the seconds count of Fear Inoculum, and the fact the 58 is the sum of the first 7 prime numbers and a mean Saturn Return number, in an album revolving around 7 and the Saturn Return, is coincidental, then, well....that is your opinion.
Hey I just want to commend you on your esoteric knowledge and all you've put into these videos. I've been steeped into the study of the mysteries and the like for almost a decade and wish I could speak with you on these topics more in depth to learn from your own side of the spectrum. Regardless, I'm very curious what else you've unraveled that you mentioned could span hours. Maybe one day we'll see more. Once more, thank you for all that you do as it's a privilege to have a repository for all things Tool.
I mean... Some comments are pretty negative regarding all this analysis thing... 13 years to release an album, maybe they actually did think all this stuff. Look at how complex Lateralus was! Not saying that I understood everything you said, but it was obbious there would be so much to decipher. I appreciated watching your video, the amount of work is quite impressive!
Thanks. What I put into this video barely scratches the surface, there's so much more I didn't talk about. The video could have easily been several hours long. Perhaps since I didn't add commentary and basically rushed the narration, some people are making the wrong conclusion.
@@ToolArchive I did feel it quickly start to get complex. Everything was numbers all of a sudden. I kept up ok but I can imagine some people haven't heard of time signatures and such and just don't know what you're saying. But if there's still more, you HAVE to make a Part 2! Also, I'm sure u/W0kiesd0ntliv0nend0r will love this video.
just because it took 13 years to release a new album doesnt mean they were working on it for 13 years sigh, they also have lives and do other stuff you know haha. how do you not realize that
Daaaamn, this analysis is really interesting. I am not really into the math side of things, but I've always felt like TOOL is something else, in my experience I have felt Euphoria the highest high, and it was all connected to Tool music, I focused just on the lyrics, I could see they relate to my own life at that particular moment in my life, and it was a crazy experience, with supernatural powers going on..
I have come to believe that Tool's music is meticulously engineered to leverage esoteric technologies on our subconscious, in order to awaken us to the Great Work.
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time! And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
🤯 This band has spoken to me my soul from the beginning and I never knew why. I had my first awakening a few years back and I had no idea what they were singing about until after. It all makes perfect sense!🤯
@@cristianbustos6019 no, no its not,. every one always quotes that. Like on every tool song, ever. and you lot seem to think that over thinking is bad. yet, all the evidence of like, every song.. seems to suggest we should maybe think a bit more and stop being meat things that do meat things... but yes.. "Don't think, don't analyze... just be a body".. that's the ticket.
Personally I'd say it's a combination of consciously doing these things,..and subconsciously aware via patterns and experiences. Eventually ones whole being becomes in tune and aligned with this kinda stuff. Lol. So says personal experience, lol.
@@thelemite935 I agree ... these math's are ancient and are calcualted to be synchronized ... once you start synchronizing purposely, some inadvertent synchronization will happen automatically. It's still incredibly amazing and almost insane that they are able to play these songs.
For those who are continuesly calling all of this coincidence (which in fact there is no such thing in the natural universe), have missed the entire point of Tool itself. They are smart enough to turn their egos off and let the universe do its thing, ala work through their subconscious, manifesting a microcosm and model of the universe itself in each of their albums from within and without the human framework. Alan Moore has done the same as well as many other actual great artists through history. Just because you like riffs and sound, doesn't mean these great artists have done decades of complex work and study off that same premise. Open your minds to possability; why else are you even here?
I agree that they follow their subconscious, I try to do that with my own musical creations. But I will also say that every thing this video points to, I highly doubt Tool consciously chose to do. The fact that it is subconscious means that it is true. Your subconsciousness is your real self devoid of all outside infiltration. That is why the number 7 is significant because artists have been depicting for generations from a subconscious feeling. But this idea of “coincidence” very well could be just people falling into this vortex of subconscious natural order. That’s the coincidence. I guess. I don’t know. I’m just stumbling through this universe with the rest of you.
@@liquidaudio_ Not all of it would need to be conscious, because once one aligns themselves with enough truth, the rest just flows. This album would be like an equation playing itself out, and once the building blocks and critical pieces were in place, one could derive further meaning, and further meaning, and further meaning.
And right before I was guided to this video, I had a Golden key 🔑 show up in my meditation. For me, the Golden key 🔑 means Balance. For Balance is the Key 🔑 to life. Bringing the physical and spiritual into balance. Heaven and Earth into balance. Dark and Light into balance. No more past and no more future. “BE HERE NOW” 🙏🏻 The Present Moment is where Life is happening. ❤️
In the 60's and 70's I spent far to much time trying to analyze the Beatles, Floyd, Doors,etc. When I discovered Tool in the 90 's I thought oh no here I go again. Now I'm in my 60' just want to kick back with the relaxant of the day crank the tunes and enjoy. Try it you'll free up more time for music.
At the exact center/middle of the song Fear Inoculum, Maynard says the word “mitosis”, which is defined as a cell splitting itself in two. In Descending, at the exact middle of the song, Maynard stops singing and the rest of the song is basically an instrumental.
Despite all of the numerology, it’s Shakespearean references that punctuate the breadth of the album, and, in doing so, flag one of its central themes: entropy. In Pneuma, corporeal existence is described as “this guise, this mask”. But it’s worth mentioning that, when archaically spelled ‘masque’, the word refers to a short play performed by (typically) nobility as a sort of opening act before a main dramatic production. These concise skits often began with ‘anti-masques’ that established a chaotic milieu, which would be corralled into order by the players in the subsequent ‘masque’; ultimately reinforcing an Elizabethan-era belief in the triumph of intentioned order over uninhibited chaos. In fact, Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ revolves around the magician Prospero, who conspires to produce a masque both as an act of revenge against his enemies as well as an allegorical morality play to educate his daughter, who is coming-of-age and soon to marry. He succeeds, and, with his enemies defeated, restores righteousness and order. Both Aenima & Lateralus open with songs that serve as expositions of negativity, and the albums proceed, alchemically, if you will, to turn these leaden initiations into golden finales. Think Third Eye & Reflection... Fear Inoculum, however, does the exact opposite. Starting with the eponymous first track, the album gets steadily darker, until it lands in that epic hurricane of a song, 7empest. This descent is Prospero’s work undone; the album ends with an anti-masque, in which chaos reigns triumphant, and all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men cannot put anything back together again. This, of course, is not to say that Tool has, in the passage of decades, become overly pessimistic. Rather, it seems that they’re pointing to the infallibility of spiritual development as a panacea for our increasingly unhinged epoch, while being honest about the entropic course our species is taking and the inevitability implied thereby.
Interesting take! "Spiritual development" can be a trap and bypass. We are mortal and we are Divine all at once, in every moment. Chaos is par for the course.
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time! And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
Thank you for all your work on this it's pretty amazing stuff. Learning a bit deeper about some of these topics is great. Adding the music is a whole nother layer but I appreciate all the work that went into this.
I'm not sure Maynard has the time to make something that's this DEEP. He's got 2 other bands, a winery to run, rolling jitsu, etc. Having said that... nice work dude, super interesting!
@@brianduman6969 dude I have to assume that at least half of that is coincidental.. I know they go deep into spirituality and numerology in all the aspects of their music, but a lot of this has to be him just seeing that stuff bc he was looking deep for it
Look into gematria and how that has been influencing humanity for hundreds if not thousands of years. An album of this magnitude containing such depth as this video reveals is not beyond the grasp of TooL. Truth is stranger than fiction my friends.
Just finished reading the Wheel of Time in which the Wheel that spins out the Pattern of Life itself has 7 spokes that correspond to 7 different ages, endlessly repeating... das pretty coo
This is truly fascinating stuff. People that get caught up on what the “true” interpretations of a complex art are totally miss the point that all the fun is in the rabbit hole.
The 22/7 is amazing. Literally drawing a circle (or the curve of one) through time with sonic vibration. Add that to the list of things only tool has done. Time geometry at its finest.
@Curzon Dax tenuous suggestions make the world go round. 😅 Whether it was intended or not i cant conceive a better way to represent that ratio with time signatures. Any other musicians playing 22/7?
@@aaronhendrix1551 playing 4/4 and 3/4 doesn't make the meter 7... that'd be seven beats in an 8th note feel.. there's no 7 note meter.. Danny counts things in his way and usually picks odd points of emphasis for accents but it's not a new math so to speak..
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time! And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
Thank you so much for this! I really like FI and now I love it and more! This study makes me appreciate this work of art even more deeply! All this numerology even makes me feel like the 13 years wait was intentional hahah! It was clearly not but now I don’t know! Amazing job! Can’t wait for part 2
What I want to know is why the video inside of the album is a carbon copy of a mushroom trip that changed my life I had back in 2004 involving and I Vortex and strange triangular creatures made of Eyes giving me symbols
Many people don't understand what this guy says, I knew some of the secrets and this is amazing some guys in the western world can understand these symbols and arts among many propaganda. good job man!
Same, I have a general idea about what he is talking about, but im nowhere near his knowledge, im familiar with the magical power of numbers, consciousness, crowley (dark magic) etc.
Agree. Just because I didn't take the time to dive in, or for that matter am smart enough myself to really know where to start, Doesn't mean that this concept that is bigger than my current understanding of everything, is just mere coincidence. People need to check that little thing called ego at the door before diving into concepts that are beyond them, instead of just dismissing the idea because it's beyond them. Modern day wizards using their instruments, math and sound to give the rest of us humans a little lesson.
@@captainratboy Amen brother, couldn’t have said it better. And after seeing this I completely agree that Tool Archive, MJK, AJ, DC and JC are all modern-day wizards (though this was confirmation rather than revelation). Peace, love and success.
Wow! Just wow... Enchanting is an understatement. You've just introduced an enormous new layer of depth on to an already immensely deep art form.... Im in awe, this _really_ resonated with me, in more ways than there are words to explain. I used to think and see things in this way often as a child. When did I forget? How do I return to this place within me.. Absolutely magical, how much the vortex you just spun me through felt like home.... Thank you for taking the time out to explain and share this! Bravo! 🥰👏❤❤❤
Yes, for myself as well for reawakening a part of my past. The numerology aspects are eye-opening, and as was mentioned "only just scratch the surface." Also quite interesting was the symbology of the name"TOOL". Fascinating to the point of mind blowing. Which is fitting for a band as incredible as Tool. Wow is right.😊
I don't know if my last comment posted or not but this video still has me sitting with goosebumps!!!!! Wow it's amazing... the commentary and numeric breakdown is astronomical!! I appreciate it- one of the best, scratch that... actually it is the best TOOL meaning/ informational video I've ever seen hands down!! I might even have to make a Tik Tok about it
I have many questions here: Each member of Tool has been going through all of this diligent joining sacred geometry, alchemy, and astrology together since the beginning! What then does this imply? What is the significance of doing such study and union? What is alchemy and astrology? Why is it all showing up again and again in the stars, in history, and on Earth? What teachings are here? What does this mean?
About the significance or purpose of all this. Besides that it is absolutely awesome to discover a record that way, I think it best shows in what Danny said, which was shown in the video. They believe in every bar, not just every verse and chorus, every bar of this record. It shows the passion they bring up creating this art. Personally I think this is a, if not the most important aspect of creating art. The energy that goes with it is so signifficantly different to something that is f.e. created only for the sake of earning money with it. For me it makes the escence of expieriencing art.
The band is the "tool" being used to convey a message bigger than ourselves from deep within our subconscious. Whether they are conscious of it or not remains debatable. The music and message can be whatever you choose to take from it, as with all art.
Everything I noticed about tool but didn't know how to put any of it together. This was so enlightening! I'm a long time fan and this was just some amazingly well put together observations. Thank you for making this I found it absolutely memorizing.
You can dissect a lot of bands/music and find something similar, if this band plays outside of boundaries. And even if not. There's plenty of room for accentuation within 4/4. Your overanalyzation fits the mysterious tool just waaay better ;)! And I really appreciate your effort!! An example: everything is based on the golden ratio. Without exception. But on a different scale, we cannot simply see. If you force things into the ratio to make the obvious obvious, then it easily gets mystified. An artificial hommage, pretending to be something, that it already is ;)!
Alot of this I'm sure wasnt 'planned' out,but when your intension is so focused these things happen. Its like in quantum physics when the observer effects the outcome. The universe is speaking back in synchronicities & 'coincidence'. This occurs all the way down to the way each of us perceive the vibration."OM!"🌀
all I wanna know is how it sounds in 432Hz - while re-arranging the tracks as according to the Pythagorean theorem - on the edge of the flat earth - while high on DXM or DMX or whateva I do what I want.
It's a tool, to activate your pattern seeking. It doesnt matter how "out there" it sounds, the only way to find patterns in your chaotic life is to look for patterns. How else would you start?
Can't wait for that 7empest video. Shit, the rabbit hole is so deep, you could probably do a vid for each song on this album and all the others plus a vid for each album like this one, then a video for all the albums combined as one great concept album. For me there is definitely a similarity/connectedness of Third Eye, Lateralus, Rosetta Stoned, 7empest. Fractal music. 1.618
Lot of comments I see are about the background noise... if you cant learn to separate things and tune out unwanted things such as noise you'll never see pass the noise.
TOOL named there band TOOL after the penis of Nimrod coming through the female birth canal giving birth to the Anti Christ. That's why ancient civilizations all have Pinnacles or Lincoln monuments they are all coming outta the center of a circle that represents the vagina
I love Dannys work but man that banner behind him, the numbers, those figurines. Adams one eye art obsessions, and Maynard Puscifer lol. Cant figure out Mr. Chancellor though
Awesome. It's easy for many to quote, "over analysing seperates the body from the mind" However you have certainly done your research and thank you for this.
@@sucesstrain ACTUALLY... the quote goes... "Think for yourself.... QUESTION AUTHORITY." I guess you just didn't know as much as tool as I thought you did. And look I don't have time to be drooling over the keyboard at 4 a.m. like a loser so whatever you reply I'm not even going to consider reading. I have a life good night. "So yeah."
I love this quote because I have a problem with overthinking while trying to more mindful/spiritual so it helps me understand that my constant overthinking keeps me from being my true self
That moment you realize Tool are just a group of math and music geeks . They love the creation and process even if half their fans never dig deep enough to catch on . They put so much more deeper thought and math into their work than they get credit for . Half if not more of their fans have no clue what any of this even means. Some criticized the band for how this album turned out and thought Tool just sat around for 13 years for the hell of it and then threw an album together last minute cause perhaps the wallets were getting a bit light. . Minds are blown now realizing there was a lot of mathematical significance, timing and deeper meaning involved in the release .
I kind of amazed this analysis didn't take as long as the album, that's a LOT of info, most of which I'm not high enough to fully appreciate at the moment. But I'm still blown away.
There's a couple of problems with analysis like this, but here are three of the big ones: 1) Calling 2 measures of 11/8 as "22/8" when the underlying rhythms aren't some sort of complex octuple is a pretty big stretch, especially when the underlying rhythms during that part in F.I. is clearly defining a complex quadruple (1 uh let 2 uh let 3 uh let 4 and). Calling that "22/8" is like calling two measures of 4/4 as "8/4" because it's convenient to an argument. Sometimes bars may be transcribed like that in musical notation, but it's usually for convenience of the reader -- that's why Schism's drum tabs usually show "6/4" but guitar and bass tabs show a measure of 5/8 followed by 7/8, which is technically more correct than 6/4 due to the way the beat is syncopated. 2) Controlling the exact length of a track is almost impossible without the use of a metronome; you need to have a reliable BPM to calculate the exact length of a bar. Danny doesn't use a metronome, which results in the subtle pushing and pulling of feel throughout a track. Even an absolute monster of a player like Danny isn't going to play each measure's BPM perfectly, so there's no way to know how long a track is going to be even if you know how many measures a song has before recording. You can make the argument that track lengths can be controlled by elements like fade in and fade out, not every track on this CD is like that - specifically F.I. and Invincible. 3) Rhythm and meter are only two components of musical composition. To focus on these exclusively to drive this entire analysis would imply that Tool doesn't put as much thought and effort into things like melody, harmony, phrasing, tension and release. Why would an entire band decide to encipher these very specific timings and meanings, but not have as much thought surrounding phrasing choices? Theoretically a band of the acute awareness that has been presented would use similar techniques to decide that numbers related to Saturn may also inform how long they hold a tension note over the first chord of a progression. I'm a Tool fan as much as anyone and am aware of Danny's interest and involvement in magick, but to assume such a high level of calculation like this comes off as confirmation bias. Occam's Razor probably applies here in that the guys sat down and said "meters in 7 sound cool, and we resonate with the number 7, so lets write a bunch of riffs in 7. Oh, we have some cool riffs in 11 as well, so lets have a few parts in 11 and maybe try mashing them against 7 since polymeters are pretty neat sounding." I get that this is from a semi-official source and that there's a good chance that this is a parody of Tool fans stretching to find ghosts in places where there are none. If that's the case, hopefully this explains some of the joke. TL;DR: lol you read this far nerd
1) I tend to think Tool counts more in 8th notes, though there are plenty of quarters like 11/4 or 7/4 in the album. I also tend to think that Tool don't think too much in terms of measures, but cycles instead. A cycle may be divisioned into a number of measures, but the original idea is more a longer cycle. So, Pneuma's main cycle starting at 1:17/18, is 33/8 in total, which most fans section into 7/4, /74, 5/8, or 14/8, 14/8, 5/8, but Tool almost certainly mapped it out as 33/8, which is due to 33 being a central number to the album (which I barely talked about in this video). You mentioned Schism. Schism was written/is counted by the band as 6 & 1/2 8th note beats! The 22/8 from the band with Maynard's 7 spells out PI, which is why I mentioned it, and there's more PI stuff in the album that I didn't mention here. 2) Not sure what to say here other than, yes, Tool did find a way to make their Fear Inoculum songs be exact amounts of seconds, to be able to spell out additive number values in the track lengths (15:43 = 58, etc), and to add up the full digital version into 360, to represent completion, full circle, and the squaring of the circle's 360 degrees. The 3 addition segues probably helped in getting to 360. 3) I'm also not sure what you're saying here, nowhere in this video do I imply that the numbers are the only thing they spent time on. I begin the video by saying their music has always been numbers and emotions together, which Fear Inoculum culminates. I rushed out this video and didn't put in a TON of other material. But I'm not implying that feelings, melody, and such doesn't carry the same complexity as the occulted numbers in the structure of the songs. But I guess it's easier to talk about numerical significance than how so and so relates to a feeling or intention.
@@ToolArchive I want to be clear in that I am in no way trying to disrespect your analysis of the art. I respect your views of it, especially as you are closer to the source than almost all of us. The work done in this video is really cool and valuable regardless of how I may perceive it. My main problem is that I've seen analysis similar to this since the early 2000s, starting with the whole "holy gift" thing. Or the multiple novellas written about how 10,000 days was the "fake album" and the "real album" was just days away. I've at least seen MJK scoff at the "holy gift" stuff in interviews. So it's hard to take any Tool analysis seriously at this point, especially after MJK talked negatively about his usage of the Fibonacci sequence on that JR podcast. I'm glad to go back to my three points, but I think I can sum up my position in that I'll only believe a majority of the points made here if a band member comes out and both confirms and explains their design. And even if that happened, I'd probably still think it's BS due to the whole "think for yourself, question authority" aspect of Tool, and my experience as a composer. Thanks for all the work you do! Hope 2021 is a better year us all.
@@ToolArchive ... It's a very well done video brother. I'll give you that. May I say your production skills are amazing. I'm not saying there's no truth to this. Because you make a FACE-MELTING case. My favorite was the FEAR IN OCULAR. That BLEW MY MIND. And my 4th grade teacher gave me SHIT as I tried to wack the square peg, into the circle peg. I tried so hard. But it diddnt work! Through this video you just proved that you can make the square a perfect sphere. Thanks for tour time. I guess maybe it's just hard AT FIRST to understand. But we'll done. I'm sorry you got so many haters. I hope you continue to bring us content in future. 🎶🎸😁👍 Take care.
Understandable that it took a while to make the album. Now if we could find that additional record Adam referenced..... Good job on the video by the way. Thanks.
Saturn= 42, 21, 69 in the base ciphers... which I wish you included in the video. Saturn is represented by lead/black and Jupiter represented by purple hence why the album art work has both converging as an allegory to The Great Conjunction. The Greeks worshiped Zeus which is Jupiter, in Pneuma Maynard references the child releasing the light, aka Jupiter the son of Saturn, one spark, sun becoming references the conjunction and how it's appearance resembled that. Descending beings with the sound of ocean waves crashing as we enter the age of Aquarius ruled by Saturn, Jupiter is now Descending.
@@ToolArchive I also noticed that Fear Inoculum was released 138 days before patient zero arrived in the US on 1/15/20. Fear Inoculum= 138 Thank you for this video, for the longest time I was trying to figure out the significance of 138 and why it was released on 8/30. Most people do not understand the significance of the time period, we are living through, let alone magick; and thus why the art the band put out is so heavily coded and ritualistic.
@@ToolArchive Gematria aspect is often ignored so thank you for the inclusion. Your voice sounds familiar. Do you have a separate gematria/numerology decoding TH-cam channel?
7 minutes in and it feels like I'm about to have either a panic attack or a revelation.
great comment!!! Me too...
7
I made it 8.... im there......1 and 1 are 1 .... 11.11-3 (1 and 1 are 1)..
Both
I think that might be due to the anxiety inducing sporadic backing track throughout the entire video
Here’s Tom with the weather
Tom:
Thanks Tom, and now this!
watch the weather change
I wouldn't trust a weather forecast from this Tom... LOL
Tom: "Um... I... but wait... If... I'm ... we... but... so... I shouldn't... because... No.. um.... Its gonna rain... um... maybe"
class
@@faulkgough1768
I've been a fan for 21 years, 30 shows. I genuinely thought I was obsessed until I saw this 😂🤣
The rabbit hole that is Tool, is endless.
You and I both sir!
We are all crazies 🥂🤘🤟
So are you not obsessed right now?
Amazing but could it just be a manifestation of great music?
Tool watching this; "We just wrote some music"
I was thinking the same thing😂
I fell off my chair after reading ur comment. 😁👍
Maybe tool have no control over these numerical patterns . Maybe they happen naturally or the devil is involved . Regardless, I'm hooked .
Absolutely.
No way it was unintentional. Definitely blows the Lateralus concept outta the water.
“Over analyzing separate the body from the mind”
Me quote tool song me smarty boy
@@ileutur6863 what are you trying to achieve with your comment? Offend me? I am not a snowflake. Heres another song quote for you, WALK ON HOME BOY
no kidding
@@he478 yes sir!
Red and yellow
Dude, Kylo Ren needs to get outside more.
he does sound like Adam Driver hahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO
Lmao
@@rleandro315 Dear Sith diary....lol
@@TMmodify If Tool put this much work into their songs. God bless em.
This is what happens when you take 7 hits of acid and listen to this album...
7, eh?
Hahaha
Bro you don’t take hits of acid
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time!
And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
@@AdiAdi-bf6sj not anymore. I've taken enough during this life to last me many lifetimes!
1. I commend this guy's research & dedication to discovering the deeper mythos of Fear Inoculum.
2. I could only make it half way through this video. I then put on my tin foil hat, assumed a yoga position in the shape of a 7, and beamed my soul out to the planet Saturn.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i really hope that is actually your last name, that's so dope. also ill see you on saturn my friend
@@zaclovesschool2273 definitely my real last name! It's an odd one 😂
@Skyler Cawthorn what's up Skyler!
I’ve seen them at least ten times. I can never figure out if they write things so deep, or if the things they write can just be interpreted on many different levels. That is what makes Tool one of the best bands ever! 300 years from now, I think people will examine their music like we do Beethoven’s today.
the latter
Me: this should be interesting
Me 25 minutes later: *jello brain*
Lol
Please read:
I have absolutely no idea why TH-cam compressed this video so much. The mp4 file itself is so much more clear and sharp. Maybe I'll make that available.
Yes please
You tube has built in compression. You can probably turn it of in your settings.
its the lizard people compressing the common man
Feel free to link us to a downloadable version of the non-compressed video for our own studies and libraries. Thank you so much for your hard work! I've been waiting for this video to come out!
Feel free to link us to a video without the annoying background noises.
*hits blunt, snorts 200mg of Adderall:*
Jester I think it was 777mg of Adderall
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This def sounds like an adderall rant
+50,000 mg of LSD
@@tdbass2968 it actually was 2/24, 7/33, 3/77, 3.14 pi plus tua
This video is literally one of those Illuminati confirmed memes lmao
Yea i caught schizophrenia off this shit
The illuminati term is just a sheild from the true puppet masters.
@@ireport4582 You are correct. The Devil (deceiver) controls all in this world.
Everyone knows Rothschild and Rockefeller is how you spell devil
@@o-REDBEARD-o come on, it's not shit, he's just breaking down their awesome symbolics, it's funny af but not schizophrenic. I am occultist myself, but daaaamn I had a good laugh 🤭
~nodding like I understand any of this~
hahahahahaha my thoughts exactly
It’s weird. I’ve always loved this band, but in the last month or two, I’ve started to ‘get it’. Pretty fucking amazing when you start realizing the messages their music is conveying. It’s all of course subjective and down the individuals interpretation of it, but the main thing is, is it’s all good.
@Bryce I hear ya! 😂
this is the definition of spiraling out
Gotta keep going
Completely out bro🤣🤣🤣 I had a brain aneurysm 3 minutes in🤯🤯🤯
I hope whoever was taking out the trash in background eventually got it done
Hahaha me too
It sounds like some dude kicking an oil drum, one guy fucking a rooster and someone farting into a fan.
This video is 29 mins 29 seconds long which is a second saturn return
Which equals 58
@@juliemontgomery3798 i respect and love tool to a major extent. But numbers... below 1000... well... even numbers in general, Will always be able and connected and patterned easily. This dude did his research and def put my head in that space again, I learned of things I didn't know and some interesting terms but, Its just tool. Its just good music. Anyway have a great new year.
Ps. Lateralus is best album.
@@juliemontgomery3798 which is the number of days it takes masons to traverse into the spirit realm
also... the number of secret herbs and spices in kentucky fried chicken
@@jamrep9633 I enjoy Lateralus the most too. That being said, I love all of their music and Maynard’s lyrics. With Danny’s sacred geometry and the length of time between albums, it wouldn’t surprise me if some or all of the numbers are purposeful and significant. On the other hand it could all be coincidental. We may never know for sure. To be honest, all the numbers and research put into this video had my head spinning! I think for me, I’ll just enjoy Tool’s musical masterpieces and not overthink the numbers. I have found Lateralus to be a spiritual experience. My favorite off of FI is Invincible, definitely a masterpiece.
No its not. Saturn return is 27 years.
I would LOVE to have the guys watch this and get their reactions to it.
During the music clinic events they did a little while back, some fans asked about Lateralus' theorized reordering in the 'Holy Gift" sequencing, as it seems to flow much more 'perfectly' than the CD ordering. Adam, Danny, and Justin all apparently acted like they had never heard of it, and that they released the album in the ordering that it was intended. Given their mystique, I would assume (as someone else here mentioned) either that A.) TOOL is operating on this insane level, and would want to keep that under wraps/likely would not be able to explain it if they tried. or B.) all of this really is coincidental and/or did happen but the band did not intentionally plan it out.
Either way, it would make sense in their position to want to deny any of this, at least to keep up their "mysterious" brand image.
Personally, I think-whether intentionally by design of the band or not- the synchronicities in TOOL's music are indeed happening, and contribute to the unique music fans can't seem to get enough of. Paraphrasing Maynard in the video, "I lose nothing believing it is real if it actually isn't," [and conversely; ..."but I may be missing out if I don't believe, and it is real"].
Laughter, more than anything.
i dont think that they are the usual type of human they would never tell you about it because it will alter your opinion and they always wanted to be a tool for whatever you wish to do if they talk about it the magic is gone becuase we limit our mind they want you to think for yourself question everything this is still a theory about all the numbers they could be wrong from the beginning and tool could be working with wrong numbers but i dont think its about the numbers its about the meaning we give them except for the sacred geometry
once ago some1 gave those number meaning but some numbers simply are what they are like pi or the fibonacci squence
They'd be laughing their asses off
Danny’s like, I thought it sounded cool.
This guy spent his time in quarantine wisely..
Only thing I geeked out truly over is the name of the track Litanie contre la Peur, which translates to Litany against Fear, which is a direct reference to Frank Herbert's Sci-fi classic Dune.
Litany against fear:
"I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Coincidentally, also has roots in Shakespeare which this video referenced as well.
This video is an amazing piece of work, released on the Solstice and the day of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the 6th and 7th heavenly body. Tool either intended every single one of these alignments or the universe lined them up for Tool. If you think about it, it’s the same thing. As above, so below. Thanks for all your hard work... I’ll be watching this MANY times.
Best comment so far
This guy gets it
i would imagine with the prevalence of these number/themes, you could do this with almost anything. Wait is that also the point?
@@MrMobileVortex I mean....33 or 58 are pretty specific numbers. You can only go so far with them. If one really thinks that the prevalence of 58 all throughout the album (and honestly I barely scratched the surface), like for example in Pneuma, the numerical additive sum of 7empest's 15:43, the numerical value of Noah, which is highly likely related to 7empest and Maynard's future catastrophe undercurrent, the abbreviated form of the name of Metatron the angel of the first sphere, which has a numerical sum of 620 which is the seconds count of Fear Inoculum, and the fact the 58 is the sum of the first 7 prime numbers and a mean Saturn Return number, in an album revolving around 7 and the Saturn Return, is coincidental, then, well....that is your opinion.
As of right now this comment has 67 likes lol
MAGNIFICENTLY POWERFUL STUDY MATE ! THIS IS ABDOLUTELY ASTOUNDING. IF ONE LISTENS - THEY WILL KNOW. ONE MUST LISTEN FIRST.
@@BRB_Covers It's actually even more complex than what I'm saying.
@@BRB_Covers these can't be coincidences. I mean if u think about it. They had enough time for this.
@@BRB_Covers There are no such things as coincidences ;)
Hey I just want to commend you on your esoteric knowledge and all you've put into these videos. I've been steeped into the study of the mysteries and the like for almost a decade and wish I could speak with you on these topics more in depth to learn from your own side of the spectrum. Regardless, I'm very curious what else you've unraveled that you mentioned could span hours. Maybe one day we'll see more. Once more, thank you for all that you do as it's a privilege to have a repository for all things Tool.
@@ToolArchive You've got to make another video on these discoveries mate, they're fascinating.
I mean... Some comments are pretty negative regarding all this analysis thing... 13 years to release an album, maybe they actually did think all this stuff. Look at how complex Lateralus was! Not saying that I understood everything you said, but it was obbious there would be so much to decipher. I appreciated watching your video, the amount of work is quite impressive!
Thanks. What I put into this video barely scratches the surface, there's so much more I didn't talk about. The video could have easily been several hours long. Perhaps since I didn't add commentary and basically rushed the narration, some people are making the wrong conclusion.
@@ToolArchive I did feel it quickly start to get complex. Everything was numbers all of a sudden. I kept up ok but I can imagine some people haven't heard of time signatures and such and just don't know what you're saying. But if there's still more, you HAVE to make a Part 2!
Also, I'm sure u/W0kiesd0ntliv0nend0r will love this video.
@@ToolArchive
Several hours? You mean seven hours lololol
just because it took 13 years to release a new album doesnt mean they were working on it for 13 years sigh, they also have lives and do other stuff you know haha. how do you not realize that
@@Djdjipe lol ur a government bot get outta here.
Like the seven dwarfs
Don’t eat the apple
@@antonior4217 too late
Daaaamn, this analysis is really interesting. I am not really into the math side of things, but I've always felt like TOOL is something else, in my experience I have felt Euphoria the highest high, and it was all connected to Tool music, I focused just on the lyrics, I could see they relate to my own life at that particular moment in my life, and it was a crazy experience, with supernatural powers going on..
You said it!
Bro recorded this in a harp factory
I have come to believe that Tool's music is meticulously engineered to leverage esoteric technologies on our subconscious, in order to awaken us to the Great Work.
You know what it is 🍄❤️
Gilgamesh Ishtar 🍄=alchemical trigger
This
🙌🙌🙌
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time!
And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
I got to see TOOL before the covid mess .......they were fantastic
Me too, three times!
They were in Boise and we were literally shut down the day before their show. A bunch of sad people that day :(
Me too once for this album cycle in NOLA.
Me too, Raleigh, NC 2019
So did I January 18th Amazing Show!
🤯 This band has spoken to me my soul from the beginning and I never knew why. I had my first awakening a few years back and I had no idea what they were singing about until after. It all makes perfect sense!🤯
DOGMA AMGOD
Look into Gnosticism and then go back and listen to the album again.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind"
Most underrated comment ever
@@cristianbustos6019 no, no its not,. every one always quotes that. Like on every tool song, ever.
and you lot seem to think that over thinking is bad. yet, all the evidence of like, every song.. seems to suggest we should maybe think a bit more and stop being meat things that do meat things...
but yes.. "Don't think, don't analyze... just be a body".. that's the ticket.
I should hope that one with "Alchemist" in their name is only quoting this as a joke.
@@cristianbustos6019 thanks
Wait, is it “separates” or “severing”?
I don’t get the haters. At least he has original thoughts. Let it entertain you.
If even 7% of this was intentional that is pretty impressive
Honestly, amazing video! I wasn't aware of most of these things! I was kinda waiting to see what others had discovered when digging deeper.
found you
This video is more then we could have ever asked for and I think most people don't realize it.
If Tool did any of this on purpose or subconsciously it's beyond insane. If so of this is an accident then you're a lucky guy, go play the lottery.
Personally I'd say it's a combination of consciously doing these things,..and subconsciously aware via patterns and experiences. Eventually ones whole being becomes in tune and aligned with this kinda stuff. Lol. So says personal experience, lol.
Would upvote, but it has 23 thumbs up.
@@thelemite935 I agree ... these math's are ancient and are calcualted to be synchronized ... once you start synchronizing purposely, some inadvertent synchronization will happen automatically. It's still incredibly amazing and almost insane that they are able to play these songs.
@@thelemite935 9393/93
I find it to be yet another example of how powerful the human mind is, in that if you truly want something to be true, it will be, somehow.
This entire video is the definition of whay I think of when I go through overthinking a situation.
GREAT to hear from you Tool archive!
It has been a while.
You are always keeping us on our heels!
So good to see you once again!
I thought that you were hiding from me.
you thought that I had run away.
Chasing a trail of smoke and the reason.
For those who are continuesly calling all of this coincidence (which in fact there is no such thing in the natural universe), have missed the entire point of Tool itself. They are smart enough to turn their egos off and let the universe do its thing, ala work through their subconscious, manifesting a microcosm and model of the universe itself in each of their albums from within and without the human framework. Alan Moore has done the same as well as many other actual great artists through history. Just because you like riffs and sound, doesn't mean these great artists have done decades of complex work and study off that same premise. Open your minds to possability; why else are you even here?
I agree that they follow their subconscious, I try to do that with my own musical creations. But I will also say that every thing this video points to, I highly doubt Tool consciously chose to do. The fact that it is subconscious means that it is true. Your subconsciousness is your real self devoid of all outside infiltration. That is why the number 7 is significant because artists have been depicting for generations from a subconscious feeling. But this idea of “coincidence” very well could be just people falling into this vortex of subconscious natural order. That’s the coincidence. I guess. I don’t know. I’m just stumbling through this universe with the rest of you.
@@liquidaudio_ Not all of it would need to be conscious, because once one aligns themselves with enough truth, the rest just flows. This album would be like an equation playing itself out, and once the building blocks and critical pieces were in place, one could derive further meaning, and further meaning, and further meaning.
Over thinking
Over analyzing
Separates the body from the mind.
Textbook case
Stfu you're quoting a song that is in fact very overthinkable and very overanalyzable and it doesn't give you any higher ground
And right before I was guided to this video, I had a Golden key 🔑 show up in my meditation. For me, the Golden key 🔑 means Balance. For Balance is the Key 🔑 to life.
Bringing the physical and spiritual into balance.
Heaven and Earth into balance.
Dark and Light into balance.
No more past and no more future.
“BE HERE NOW” 🙏🏻
The Present Moment is where Life is happening. ❤️
In the 60's and 70's I spent far to much time trying to analyze the Beatles, Floyd, Doors,etc. When I discovered Tool in the 90 's I thought oh no here I go again.
Now I'm in my 60' just want to kick back with the relaxant of the day crank the tunes and enjoy. Try it you'll free up more time for music.
Once I read a Deftones Chino Moreno telling about Tools rehearsal. They use maths and graphics to guide their songs... BRILLIANT!
At the exact center/middle of the song Fear Inoculum, Maynard says the word “mitosis”, which is defined as a cell splitting itself in two.
In Descending, at the exact middle of the song, Maynard stops singing and the rest of the song is basically an instrumental.
Danny also doesn't use his snare at all in the first half of the song Fear Inoculum.
@@BrokenZen311 and Descending doesn't contain a single hi hat
Outstanding work my friend. Hit the nail on the head 🙏
Despite all of the numerology, it’s Shakespearean references that punctuate the breadth of the album, and, in doing so, flag one of its central themes: entropy.
In Pneuma, corporeal existence is described as “this guise, this mask”. But it’s worth mentioning that, when archaically spelled ‘masque’, the word refers to a short play performed by (typically) nobility as a sort of opening act before a main dramatic production.
These concise skits often began with ‘anti-masques’ that established a chaotic milieu, which would be corralled into order by the players in the subsequent ‘masque’; ultimately reinforcing an Elizabethan-era belief in the triumph of intentioned order over uninhibited chaos.
In fact, Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ revolves around the magician Prospero, who conspires to produce a masque both as an act of revenge against his enemies as well as an allegorical morality play to educate his daughter, who is coming-of-age and soon to marry. He succeeds, and, with his enemies defeated, restores righteousness and order.
Both Aenima & Lateralus open with songs that serve as expositions of negativity, and the albums proceed, alchemically, if you will, to turn these leaden initiations into golden finales. Think Third Eye & Reflection...
Fear Inoculum, however, does the exact opposite. Starting with the eponymous first track, the album gets steadily darker, until it lands in that epic hurricane of a song, 7empest. This descent is Prospero’s work undone; the album ends with an anti-masque, in which chaos reigns triumphant, and all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men cannot put anything back together again.
This, of course, is not to say that Tool has, in the passage of decades, become overly pessimistic. Rather, it seems that they’re pointing to the infallibility of spiritual development as a panacea for our increasingly unhinged epoch, while being honest about the entropic course our species is taking and the inevitability implied thereby.
Interesting take! "Spiritual development" can be a trap and bypass. We are mortal and we are Divine all at once, in every moment. Chaos is par for the course.
Incredible work! I was waiting for such a video of details such as this. Thank you and Please produce more !
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time!
And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
Thank you for all your work on this it's pretty amazing stuff. Learning a bit deeper about some of these topics is great. Adding the music is a whole nother layer but I appreciate all the work that went into this.
One of my most prized notifications. The title of the video has piqued my curiosity! Looking forward to it. Welcome back, ToolArchive.
I'm still learning Gematria, Numerology, and Astrology. It's interesting. It's alot to learn.
I'm not sure Maynard has the time to make something that's this DEEP. He's got 2 other bands, a winery to run, rolling jitsu, etc.
Having said that... nice work dude, super interesting!
Maynard is a multitasking madman 🤣
Good thing he has a whole band to help him
indeed. Justin plays a significant role as well. @@CallofCthulhu-wq5gu
Y'all know that tool is actually ADAMS band. Not Maynard's. He's just vocals, and he's only putting in his Vocals. TOOL is ADAMs band.
you BETTER mention Danny; The shit he comes up with is not accidental or coincidence.... @@ubiquinoxxrosiles2766
The repetive background music is the definition of insanity x 7.
Uhh... Wow. If this wasn't the official, I'd say that somebody needs to get back on their meds. But this dude dug deep as fuck
Yep great stuff but holy shit
@@brianduman6969 dude I have to assume that at least half of that is coincidental.. I know they go deep into spirituality and numerology in all the aspects of their music, but a lot of this has to be him just seeing that stuff bc he was looking deep for it
Look into gematria and how that has been influencing humanity for hundreds if not thousands of years. An album of this magnitude containing such depth as this video reveals is not beyond the grasp of TooL. Truth is stranger than fiction my friends.
This isn't an official TOOL yt channel. And this dude needs lots of meds they haven't created yet.
This channel never disappoints!!
Amazing video with amazing explanations and idc ab the background sounds cause captions are on as they should be
Bravo ToolArchive, you just broke my brain.
"Is this all but mere coincidence, just magical thinking or meticulously planned artistry?"
Ockham's Razor: "Yes"
I have no words for this. I absolutely believe Tool would do something like this. No way around it, these can't only be coincidences. Fuckin amazing.
Thank you for this wonderful work. I look forward to watching it atleast 7 times ✌️
Probably my favorite @ToolArchive video yet. My mind exploded
Just finished reading the Wheel of Time in which the Wheel that spins out the Pattern of Life itself has 7 spokes that correspond to 7 different ages, endlessly repeating... das pretty coo
This is truly fascinating stuff. People that get caught up on what the “true” interpretations of a complex art are totally miss the point that all the fun is in the rabbit hole.
The 22/7 is amazing. Literally drawing a circle (or the curve of one) through time with sonic vibration. Add that to the list of things only tool has done. Time geometry at its finest.
@Curzon Dax tenuous suggestions make the world go round. 😅 Whether it was intended or not i cant conceive a better way to represent that ratio with time signatures. Any other musicians playing 22/7?
@@aaronhendrix1551 playing 4/4 and 3/4 doesn't make the meter 7... that'd be seven beats in an 8th note feel.. there's no 7 note meter.. Danny counts things in his way and usually picks odd points of emphasis for accents but it's not a new math so to speak..
Fear inoculum is such a good album my car stereo ate it, it won’t spit it out I have to take my car to Subaru to get it back...
When you were driving it, was it SPIRALING OUT? 😂
a lot of effort went into this vid. nice work
It reminds me the first Darren Aranowkski movie "PI the delirium theorem".... anyway congrats for the hard work
That was exactly what I was thinking of!! Hahaha
Well said! Average people just don’t understand. I can’t wait to share with my wife. And then ask her to show me something that Jon bon jovi said in any song written that has any depth at all comparatively speaking. No offense to jbj or to her but the explanation this guy delivers beautifully is spot on! I would like to have a conversation with him as through learning to my best ability to analyze TOOL, it all makes sense- Period! Coming from a high level mathematician, and psychologist just sayin... Everyone involved with TOOL is brilliant and if any fans don’t realize that TOOL is as smart and clever as the presenter of this video portrays needs to study up big time!
And the comments I have read insofar as of now are appalling to me and I will venture to say that deep down TO THE CORE , TOOL fans will agree. However, everyone who has made comments are, if not TOOL fans, at least interested so you are off to a great start, ignorant comments or not, this band will dumb you right down NO MATTER how smart you think you are. So count every character in my post. Every single letter and comma and period they will equate to pi minus my age of 40.4082 plus tau. And this only took me a few hours to do the MATH! And the gents of this band are WAY more superior to this layman. Took 13 years to make FEAR INOCULUM for many good reasons!
Thank you so much for this! I really like FI and now I love it and more! This study makes me appreciate this work of art even more deeply! All this numerology even makes me feel like the 13 years wait was intentional hahah! It was clearly not but now I don’t know! Amazing job! Can’t wait for part 2
What I want to know is why the video inside of the album is a carbon copy of a mushroom trip that changed my life I had back in 2004 involving and I Vortex and strange triangular creatures made of Eyes giving me symbols
Many people don't understand what this guy says, I knew some of the secrets and this is amazing some guys in the western world can understand these symbols and arts among many propaganda. good job man!
Same, I have a general idea about what he is talking about, but im nowhere near his knowledge, im familiar with the magical power of numbers, consciousness, crowley (dark magic) etc.
I see there is a lot of comments about overthinking... Before commenting like that, ask yourself if you are underthinking.
I like you, the only one so far in this section that utilizes the mind
Agree. Just because I didn't take the time to dive in, or for that matter am smart enough myself to really know where to start, Doesn't mean that this concept that is bigger than my current understanding of everything, is just mere coincidence. People need to check that little thing called ego at the door before diving into concepts that are beyond them, instead of just dismissing the idea because it's beyond them. Modern day wizards using their instruments, math and sound to give the rest of us humans a little lesson.
@@captainratboy Amen brother, couldn’t have said it better. And after seeing this I completely agree that Tool Archive, MJK, AJ, DC and JC are all modern-day wizards (though this was confirmation rather than revelation). Peace, love and success.
Good point. If it's all true and purposeful - we should embrace it and use it to grow. If not - we should do so anyways.
You don't go to a gym and under train do u ' people are weird
Exercise is ascension be it mental or physical
Wow! Just wow... Enchanting is an understatement. You've just introduced an enormous new layer of depth on to an already immensely deep art form.... Im in awe, this _really_ resonated with me, in more ways than there are words to explain. I used to think and see things in this way often as a child. When did I forget? How do I return to this place within me.. Absolutely magical, how much the vortex you just spun me through felt like home.... Thank you for taking the time out to explain and share this! Bravo! 🥰👏❤❤❤
Yes, for myself as well for reawakening a part of my past. The numerology aspects are eye-opening, and as was mentioned "only just scratch the surface." Also quite interesting was the symbology of the name"TOOL". Fascinating to the point of mind blowing. Which is fitting for a band as incredible as Tool. Wow is right.😊
Got to see them at aftershock 2019, about 20ft away from the stage when they performed Fear Inoculum for the first time. Magical 👽
I was at that show
It was Magical !
Was there, best Tool show to date.
I don't know if my last comment posted or not but this video still has me sitting with goosebumps!!!!! Wow it's amazing... the commentary and numeric breakdown is astronomical!! I appreciate it- one of the best, scratch that... actually it is the best TOOL meaning/ informational video I've ever seen hands down!! I might even have to make a Tik Tok about it
I have many questions here: Each member of Tool has been going through all of this diligent joining sacred geometry, alchemy, and astrology together since the beginning! What then does this imply? What is the significance of doing such study and union? What is alchemy and astrology? Why is it all showing up again and again in the stars, in history, and on Earth? What teachings are here? What does this mean?
About the significance or purpose of all this. Besides that it is absolutely awesome to discover a record that way, I think it best shows in what Danny said, which was shown in the video. They believe in every bar, not just every verse and chorus, every bar of this record. It shows the passion they bring up creating this art. Personally I think this is a, if not the most important aspect of creating art. The energy that goes with it is so signifficantly different to something that is f.e. created only for the sake of earning money with it.
For me it makes the escence of expieriencing art.
Sublimation. Check out Michael Tsarion. Overall this band does Shadow Work and expresses the importance. 46+2 has a direct link to Carl Gustav Jung.
All I can think about now is what the heck that ‘song’ in the background is
The band is the "tool" being used to convey a message bigger than ourselves from deep within our subconscious. Whether they are conscious of it or not remains debatable. The music and message can be whatever you choose to take from it, as with all art.
Any reference to the time this was released, that everyone was getting inoculated… or am I getting too crazy here?
Funny how so many numbers can be somehow assigned to so many things, almost like someone tried to connect everything together.
Everything I noticed about tool but didn't know how to put any of it together. This was so enlightening! I'm a long time fan and this was just some amazingly well put together observations. Thank you for making this I found it absolutely memorizing.
You can dissect a lot of bands/music and find something similar, if this band plays outside of boundaries. And even if not. There's plenty of room for accentuation within 4/4.
Your overanalyzation fits the mysterious tool just waaay better ;)! And I really appreciate your effort!!
An example: everything is based on the golden ratio. Without exception. But on a different scale, we cannot simply see. If you force things into the ratio to make the obvious obvious, then it easily gets mystified. An artificial hommage, pretending to be something, that it already is ;)!
Alot of this I'm sure wasnt 'planned' out,but when your intension is so focused these things happen. Its like in quantum physics when the observer effects the outcome. The universe is speaking back in synchronicities & 'coincidence'. This occurs all the way down to the way each of us perceive the vibration."OM!"🌀
all I wanna know is how it sounds in 432Hz - while re-arranging the tracks as according to the Pythagorean theorem - on the edge of the flat earth - while high on DXM or DMX or whateva I do what I want.
How about dmt it's obvious a major influence on these guys
@@pat-a-rattat8094 I can tell by their faces that they do not take DMT
I'm really glad I watched this video sober, it was psychedelic enough on its own. Impressive work!
It's a tool, to activate your pattern seeking. It doesnt matter how "out there" it sounds, the only way to find patterns in your chaotic life is to look for patterns. How else would you start?
Has anyone not connected the FEAR INOCULUM , FEAR VACCINATION , AND THE SYRINGE IN THE LOGO ?
Tool sitting there listening to this thinking.. "This fucking guy nailed it".
Forreal i can see Danny grinning wide and laughing with satisfaction
"insufferable"
No
Yes..Amazing! Thank you!
Just wanted to send love to you my friend, gratitude for your dedication
This guy needs to watch the movie Pi and take in its message.
Can't wait for that 7empest video. Shit, the rabbit hole is so deep, you could probably do a vid for each song on this album and all the others plus a vid for each album like this one, then a video for all the albums combined as one great concept album.
For me there is definitely a similarity/connectedness of Third Eye, Lateralus, Rosetta Stoned, 7empest.
Fractal music. 1.618
Pink Floyd fans: "Dude, if you play 'Dark Side of the Moon' with 'The Wizard of Oz', they sync up together!"
Tool fans: "Hold my beer..."
Well I mean Maynard was in many ways inspired by Floyd
Lot of comments I see are about the background noise... if you cant learn to separate things and tune out unwanted things such as noise you'll never see pass the noise.
Its not that complicated, they just asked Satan for directions
Yes and hashish cookies recipe
Or Saturn... Oh wait...
You aren't lying
TOOL named there band TOOL after the penis of Nimrod coming through the female birth canal giving birth to the Anti Christ. That's why ancient civilizations all have Pinnacles or Lincoln monuments they are all coming outta the center of a circle that represents the vagina
I love Dannys work but man that banner behind him, the numbers, those figurines. Adams one eye art obsessions, and Maynard Puscifer lol. Cant figure out Mr. Chancellor though
Awesome. It's easy for many to quote, "over analysing seperates the body from the mind"
However you have certainly done your research and thank you for this.
Right... cuz the quote CAME FROM TOOL! (Maynard himself)
See the irony?
@@davidschaeffer9481 he also says "think for yourself". So yeah....
@@sucesstrain ACTUALLY... the quote goes...
"Think for yourself.... QUESTION AUTHORITY."
I guess you just didn't know as much as tool as I thought you did.
And look I don't have time to be drooling over the keyboard at 4 a.m. like a loser so whatever you reply I'm not even going to consider reading. I have a life good night.
"So yeah."
@@davidschaeffer9481 glad you aint going to say anything more Dave.
Tool fans like you give a terrible name to the community.
So yeahhhh
I love this quote because I have a problem with overthinking while trying to more mindful/spiritual so it helps me understand that my constant overthinking keeps me from being my true self
That moment you realize Tool are just a group of math and music geeks . They love the creation and process even if half their fans never dig deep enough to catch on . They put so much more deeper thought and math into their work than they get credit for . Half if not more of their fans have no clue what any of this even means. Some criticized the band for how this album turned out and thought Tool just sat around for 13 years for the hell of it and then threw an album together last minute cause perhaps the wallets were getting a bit light. . Minds are blown now realizing there was a lot of mathematical significance, timing and deeper meaning involved in the release .
however crazy all of this is, it inspired me to incorporate numerology into my riffs and it's really paying off. thanks
It's Tool, this is absolutely what they do, nothing is random! Bravo to you for digging so deep and WOW Tool never cease to blow my f@#king mind! 🙌🙌
I kind of amazed this analysis didn't take as long as the album, that's a LOT of info, most of which I'm not high enough to fully appreciate at the moment. But I'm still blown away.
There's a couple of problems with analysis like this, but here are three of the big ones:
1) Calling 2 measures of 11/8 as "22/8" when the underlying rhythms aren't some sort of complex octuple is a pretty big stretch, especially when the underlying rhythms during that part in F.I. is clearly defining a complex quadruple (1 uh let 2 uh let 3 uh let 4 and). Calling that "22/8" is like calling two measures of 4/4 as "8/4" because it's convenient to an argument.
Sometimes bars may be transcribed like that in musical notation, but it's usually for convenience of the reader -- that's why Schism's drum tabs usually show "6/4" but guitar and bass tabs show a measure of 5/8 followed by 7/8, which is technically more correct than 6/4 due to the way the beat is syncopated.
2) Controlling the exact length of a track is almost impossible without the use of a metronome; you need to have a reliable BPM to calculate the exact length of a bar. Danny doesn't use a metronome, which results in the subtle pushing and pulling of feel throughout a track. Even an absolute monster of a player like Danny isn't going to play each measure's BPM perfectly, so there's no way to know how long a track is going to be even if you know how many measures a song has before recording.
You can make the argument that track lengths can be controlled by elements like fade in and fade out, not every track on this CD is like that - specifically F.I. and Invincible.
3) Rhythm and meter are only two components of musical composition. To focus on these exclusively to drive this entire analysis would imply that Tool doesn't put as much thought and effort into things like melody, harmony, phrasing, tension and release. Why would an entire band decide to encipher these very specific timings and meanings, but not have as much thought surrounding phrasing choices? Theoretically a band of the acute awareness that has been presented would use similar techniques to decide that numbers related to Saturn may also inform how long they hold a tension note over the first chord of a progression.
I'm a Tool fan as much as anyone and am aware of Danny's interest and involvement in magick, but to assume such a high level of calculation like this comes off as confirmation bias. Occam's Razor probably applies here in that the guys sat down and said "meters in 7 sound cool, and we resonate with the number 7, so lets write a bunch of riffs in 7. Oh, we have some cool riffs in 11 as well, so lets have a few parts in 11 and maybe try mashing them against 7 since polymeters are pretty neat sounding."
I get that this is from a semi-official source and that there's a good chance that this is a parody of Tool fans stretching to find ghosts in places where there are none. If that's the case, hopefully this explains some of the joke.
TL;DR: lol you read this far nerd
YES.
1) I tend to think Tool counts more in 8th notes, though there are plenty of quarters like 11/4 or 7/4 in the album. I also tend to think that Tool don't think too much in terms of measures, but cycles instead. A cycle may be divisioned into a number of measures, but the original idea is more a longer cycle. So, Pneuma's main cycle starting at 1:17/18, is 33/8 in total, which most fans section into 7/4, /74, 5/8, or 14/8, 14/8, 5/8, but Tool almost certainly mapped it out as 33/8, which is due to 33 being a central number to the album (which I barely talked about in this video). You mentioned Schism. Schism was written/is counted by the band as 6 & 1/2 8th note beats! The 22/8 from the band with Maynard's 7 spells out PI, which is why I mentioned it, and there's more PI stuff in the album that I didn't mention here.
2) Not sure what to say here other than, yes, Tool did find a way to make their Fear Inoculum songs be exact amounts of seconds, to be able to spell out additive number values in the track lengths (15:43 = 58, etc), and to add up the full digital version into 360, to represent completion, full circle, and the squaring of the circle's 360 degrees. The 3 addition segues probably helped in getting to 360.
3) I'm also not sure what you're saying here, nowhere in this video do I imply that the numbers are the only thing they spent time on. I begin the video by saying their music has always been numbers and emotions together, which Fear Inoculum culminates. I rushed out this video and didn't put in a TON of other material. But I'm not implying that feelings, melody, and such doesn't carry the same complexity as the occulted numbers in the structure of the songs. But I guess it's easier to talk about numerical significance than how so and so relates to a feeling or intention.
@@ToolArchive I want to be clear in that I am in no way trying to disrespect your analysis of the art. I respect your views of it, especially as you are closer to the source than almost all of us. The work done in this video is really cool and valuable regardless of how I may perceive it.
My main problem is that I've seen analysis similar to this since the early 2000s, starting with the whole "holy gift" thing. Or the multiple novellas written about how 10,000 days was the "fake album" and the "real album" was just days away. I've at least seen MJK scoff at the "holy gift" stuff in interviews. So it's hard to take any Tool analysis seriously at this point, especially after MJK talked negatively about his usage of the Fibonacci sequence on that JR podcast.
I'm glad to go back to my three points, but I think I can sum up my position in that I'll only believe a majority of the points made here if a band member comes out and both confirms and explains their design. And even if that happened, I'd probably still think it's BS due to the whole "think for yourself, question authority" aspect of Tool, and my experience as a composer.
Thanks for all the work you do! Hope 2021 is a better year us all.
@@ToolArchive ... It's a very well done video brother. I'll give you that.
May I say your production skills are amazing.
I'm not saying there's no truth to this. Because you make a FACE-MELTING case. My favorite was the FEAR IN OCULAR. That BLEW MY MIND.
And my 4th grade teacher gave me SHIT as I tried to wack the square peg, into the circle peg. I tried so hard. But it diddnt work!
Through this video you just proved that you can make the square a perfect sphere. Thanks for tour time.
I guess maybe it's just hard AT FIRST to understand. But we'll done. I'm sorry you got so many haters. I hope you continue to bring us content in future. 🎶🎸😁👍
Take care.
Understandable that it took a while to make the album. Now if we could find that additional record Adam referenced..... Good job on the video by the way. Thanks.
Saturn= 42, 21, 69 in the base ciphers... which I wish you included in the video.
Saturn is represented by lead/black and Jupiter represented by purple hence why the album art work has both converging as an allegory to The Great Conjunction.
The Greeks worshiped Zeus which is Jupiter, in Pneuma Maynard references the child releasing the light, aka Jupiter the son of Saturn, one spark, sun becoming references the conjunction and how it's appearance resembled that.
Descending beings with the sound of ocean waves crashing as we enter the age of Aquarius ruled by Saturn, Jupiter is now Descending.
There's so much I didn't add into the video. Waaaay more is coming.
@@ToolArchive I also noticed that Fear Inoculum was released 138 days before patient zero arrived in the US on 1/15/20.
Fear Inoculum= 138
Thank you for this video, for the longest time I was trying to figure out the significance of 138 and why it was released on 8/30. Most people do not understand the significance of the time period, we are living through, let alone magick; and thus why the art the band put out is so heavily coded and ritualistic.
@@ToolArchive Gematria aspect is often ignored so thank you for the inclusion.
Your voice sounds familiar. Do you have a separate gematria/numerology decoding TH-cam channel?
@@ToolArchiverelease the light already lol
Superb work! Please, share some references and bibliography.