nate

Everyone assumes Tool to be evil, but that is simply not the case. I recall Maynard saying in an interview "People just assume we're hateful and don't understand that hate and anger are two completely separate energies. They might have a similar emotional charge to them, but anger is much more constructive than hate, and that's what we're about, the anger. Not all our music, just that particular element that people see in it. The agressive nature, the angry and emotional nature of it...in conjunction with the more compassionate there's a lot of light in our music, a lot of light at the end of the tunnel, but of course you have to make an effort to incourage yourself to purge yourself to get through the muck to get through the tunnel."