Where the hell am I going to start ?
I don't know how to describe this music. Ok, I could say
to you that Tool sounds like Tool but something tell me
it won't help you. Actually, I am a bit hindered because
this is one of the best release of this year, with Rammstein,
and I need to find the right words to transmit you the envy
to get out and check this Lateralus. Normally this
should be enough to wake up some interests from you to check
this unbelivable record, but we are not in front of a normal
album here !!!
I could bet a fortune these guys are coming from another
planet. Their music is so dense, so magical and so strange
at the same time that only a full play will give you the
right words to described what I call today a masterpiece
in the history of music. Take the best of Dream Theater
in terms of progressive elements, take the best of Therion
in terms of music structure , take the best of Pink Floyd,
Metallica & X-Japan in term of madness and take the
best of Rammstein & Opeth in terms of song-writing and
may be you start to have a very little small idea of what
these guys are playing.
Do not expect a heavy metal attack, a progressive caress,
a neo-metal dance, a death metal shout or a romantic album.
This is all in one. No definitely, I won't be able to described
you this music ... which haunt me since one week. I agree
in advance that this is the type of record you love or you
hate. But if you can enter in Tool's world, beware that
... you will be trapped inside forever.
A must ? No !!! A new page in the history of music. Simple
as that ! Now the only question I ask YOU : are we still
talking of metal ???