This is music? This torrid piece of filth could well be the 90s answer to Emerson, Lake and Palmer. There is not a trace of intelligence in any lyric, the music is merciless sludge, and the album consists mainly of filler.I know, because I've listened to it many times. This is one of my friend's favorites, for whatever reason, and she saw fit to make me listen to it. In fact, she saw fit to make me STUDY it. So I listened to each song multiple times and analyzed her printed lyrics. I came to the conclusion that it was almost entirely without worth. THEN I got to listen to the entire 76 minute torturous sprawl. Several times. (All for you, I! Never say I'm not a true friend. I even tried my best to like your favorite parts!)"Eulogy" (which is decent for what it is) says it best for Mr. Keenan and his merry band: "He had a lot of nothing to say."

To call 'Aenima' or any of Tool's work hard rock or metal (as many have) is an insult to talented and real hard rock or metal bands. 'Aenima' is too experimental and dissonant to even be placed in this genre. Just because a band muffles and adds effects and blurbs and grunts to their lead vocals and does stupid things that most bands don't, and throws in a few unexpected riffs and time changes in the process does not good music make. This is not 'pioneering' or 'groundbreaking' in the least folks! It is directionless, uncohesive art. For those of you who actually paid money for 'Aenima'...

Tool's Aenema is an amazing album. So far it is the best of them and if it can be surpassed, well we'll see.....

Tool went even one step further than 1993's "Undertow" with this one. I really especially like "Die Eir Von Satan", which is made to sound like a Hitler speech or something when it's only a recipe for cookie! Kick ass album!

So many people have written great things about this album, what could I possibly add? Well, I heard H. once two summers ago, and finally bought the CD this year, because I never heard it after that, and that song was just haunting me. So when I bought it, I did nothing but listen to H. (song #3), for three days. I eventually graduated to the rest of the album, and bought the others (they rock too), and recommend Tool to anyone that likes music that quite simply kicks ass.

U want a band who can be hardcore, yet intellectual??? well, have at it, nothing beats it