TOOL - Fear Inoculum (Reverse)
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0 days, 1 hours, 26 minutes
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Quiet
Average Release Decade
2010s
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Rock
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I'm still sticking to my belief that this album can be played back to front in addition to front to back .. Here are some notes from previous play throughs .. very rough notes here .. barely cohesive thoughts but you can get a good idea of it. The Tool logo is mirrored. The album artwork has the mirrored Priests (although someone called them heiroctopi and I really like that term). Hell, even the title track invites you to "recast my tale, weave my allegorical elegy. Most everyone has dismissed this but I'm telling you .. I'm on to something here. Here is a Spotify playlist in reverse order https://open.spotify.com/user/deadartforms808/playlist/2z9RUNQfBuPPTp1YRNjgHz?si=wA1pXCDcR2up6bKny6IaLg My notes as I listened are below. Again. Very rough thoughts. Original Order (Exhale): FI begins as the foreword. The story of things to come. Protagonist is the top priest, Contagion, I exhale you. Pneuma is about birth, being born. Wake up child. Fear the Breath. Invincible about aging, death, Descending, the great battle (the great turn), the fight to stay alive. Begins and ends with waves crashing (symmetry). To be or not to be. Perhaps the protagonist doesn't muster every fiber. Culling Voices, internal and external influences, cutting out others and their opinions (victim of your certainty), faceless internet interactions, Protagonist says dont you dare point that at me is toward the others. Fear the others for eternity. CCTrip, windchimes, wind that blows, foreshadowing the 7empest (calm before the torrent comes). 7empest, the culmination of fears. Disputing intentions (the priests) invites devastation (Descending), Protagonist (top half of the priest ends in defeat, skeleton Priest), perhaps protagonist didn't muster every fiber. Reverse Order (Inhale): 7empest, Fuck, Here we go again. Antagonist (bottom half of priest, aka the Deciever) comes in hard. CCTrip, Wind chimes, after the storm calm as cookies and cream so it seems. Not buying your dubious state of serenity. Culling Voices, the Deceiver wants you to fear the others for eternity. Whispers deep within (the Deceiver), Protagonist says dont you dare point that at me is toward the deceiver. But I hear them now. Ascending, track was originally called A/Descending, is the fulcrum of the album. Come, our end, suddenly All hail our lethargy proclaims the Deceiver. This is the great battle, Protagonist takes action this time to mobilize stay alive. Invincible, the Deceiver is tiring, desperate for another win. But here I am where I end. Deceiver defeated (skeleton priest). Pneuma, with Deceiver defeated, enlightened, one breath, one voice, reborn. Fear Inoculum, The conclusion of the story. Inhale the clarity, Deceiver chased away. Recast my tale, weave my allegorical elegy. Inviting us to reexamine the story. My own mitosis (divided into 2 parts 2 stories (the priests)) Conclusions: Possibly about the death of the ego and super-ego, The protagonist and antagonist are the same person. Both die in the story (skeleton Priests) .. but Pneuma achieved and capable of all imagined and all conceivable.
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