Fear Inoculum

Fear Inoculum

Tool

RCA Records

After 13 years, 1990s prog-metal group Tool has arrived with its highly anticipated fifth studio album, Fear Inoculum. Keeping its feet firmly planted in the complex rhythms and dark atmospheric riffs and melodies that has won it legions of fans over the last nearly 30 years, the new album is everything that a classic Tool fan could ever want. From extremely polished production to virtuosic musicianship to quasi-psychedelic lyrical imagery, all of the most important aspects of Tool’s sound remain intact and unchanged. The band may at this point be writing the same songs over and over again, but at least they’re good songs. (Simon Weedn)