[Helm]

Ninjavenom is right on the money. The actual insight in anything Tool ever wrote can be put in one simple phrase: "Haha I am smarter and I eat my own cock!" This probably is why they have so many fans too. As long as they pretend they get 'saturn ascends, nor one nor ten' they think they are so much smarter than a guy that listens to say, Nirvana.

Anyone with even a fleeting interest in the occult can see how childish Maynard Keenan's prose is when it dabbles in such, and how blase it is when it's political. And let's not even go into 'Overthinking, overanalyzing seperates the body from the mind'.



For the record, I consider Aenima to be one of my favourite records of all time. I just don't make a big deal out of their stance or lyrics, because frankly, both have been served more consistently by other, far more inspired artists.