So, not deviating any more from our purpose I’ll start the article. Seems easy and too unimportant when I say it so dryly but Tool, as a band has always had the power to move people and inspire them, maybe that’s a why they’re referred to as “a thinking man’s metal band”. The imagery that is most commonly associated with any Tool release is that of overcoming pain or coming to terms and realization of potential. Similarly, pain has always been a persistent theme in Tool albums, songs, and their music (yes all three individually). I call it the “Frankenstein Element” of every hero since reading the novel was the first time I was actually introduced to a different kind of pain, a pain that liberates, uplifts our spirits and though melancholy, it provides an amazing background to any story. The fact that so many superheroes are given a dark past or a weakness is because we, as a society love to see our leaders rise from their own personal hell and achieve something great. Be it Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or 500 Days of Summer or Her, pain, melancholia and the feeling of longing has always been presented to us in a way that keeps us hooked on, intrigues us and gives us goose bumps. Pain is a theme I’ve always loved to write on. But I guess I’ve associated myself too much with Tool’s art (not just the music) that I can’t think of anything before looking at the same thing from a million other vantage points, breaking into each crevice and reading between the lines that so subtly condition the society we live in. I’ve changed so much since the first time I heard Tool I was shy, closed, scared to try new things and reach out to grab a new level of thinking/consciousness similarly they’ve helped me grow as a musician and a songwriter. After all, they’re not just songs they’re a way of life for me (now) and to a large part I have to credit these talented musicians for literally twisting my life around its fulcrum and putting it onto a new axis. So far I’ve only written articles on Tool this year (barring a few other articles) and I must humbly admit it to myself that even I (someone who only started listening to Tool 3-4 years ago) find it hard to go across every single Tool song without thinking a bit more than required.

Tool 10000 days album stereoscopic