The vocals were a darkly alluring part of each track as were the all-consuming bass sound and crashing drums. This seller keeps adding this listing after each auction ends with the exact same photos of an opened copy. This edit breaks the segue that occurs between "Disposition" and "Reflection", however, which, along with "Triad", are linked together on the tracklist.

Tool – Lateralus (180g, Vinyl) - Discogs

However, Tool have always possessed a latent understanding of absurdity and comedy; their videos look like Tim Burton stop-motion, goth Primus.

Heads: Evans Power Center on snare batter (medium high tuning, no muffling), G2s on tom batters with G1s underneath (medium tuning with bottom head higher than batter), EQ3 bass drum batter with EQ3 resonant on front (medium tuning, with EQ pad touching front and back heads). By contrast, in a review for Pitchfork, Brent DiCrescenzo claimed that, "With the early new century demanding 'opuses', Tool follows suit.

Lateralus Vinyl at Juno Records. TOOL - Lateralus Vinyl at Juno Records.

The album was subject to a great deal of both fan and critical anticipation, at the time of its release.The font used is much more recent than the album, which would be pretty weird for starters if you were thinking this is legitimate. Writing for NME, Andy Capper also approved of it; " Lateralus has added a little more colour to their palette of chanting, drumming and high drama. The problem is, Tool defines "opus" as taking their "defining element" (wanking sludge) and stretching it out to the maximum digital capacity of a compact disc.