No joke.

I was thinking Sevendust myself...if it had to be done.

Stop listening to those bands then, they are obviously a bad influence on you.

i havent heard one thing on this cd that remotely sounds like slipknot, i dont get it

Yeah... that thought never occured to me either.

The vocals on Rosetta Stoned are a little similar to Slipknot, but that's all I hear.

I just thought "This is a pretty sweet hard rock riff"

Didn't remind me of ShitKnot.

meshuggah

The whole album reminds me of every band that isn't Tool.

I don't hear Meshuggah on this album whatsoever.

well some is tool subtle influence by the odd time heavy beat riffs od meshuggah and it works well.

But slipknot?sevendust? q-tips people q-tips :P

bingo. the first time i hear this i thought...meshuggah? no way, more like a sevendust 'breakdown'.

I enjoy me some Sevendust, I don't care what you guys say. Especially Home and Animosity. Good live show too.

BLASPHEMY !
STONE HIM STONE HIM

Q-Tips (or cotton buds as they are known over here) are bad for your ears and increase the risk of ear infections and burst canals.

Rosetta stoned made me feel like I was listening to Sleepytime Gorrilla Museum. It didnt sound like it, but it has the same really REALLY fucked up feel.

:werd: riding the china.. the pinched note at the end of the riff.. i feel it


either way, its awesome.

Seriously? The first riff in Jambi sounds a lot like the intro to I by Meshuggah.

I definately hear a Mesuggah influence in it

Rosetta Stoned MAY have sounded like Stone Sour, Corey Taylor's side project, if only in Maynard's voice alone, and even still I don't think it's very close. I can just see where people would get an idea like that.

I think people think Maynard may have been trying to 'rap' the way Taylor does in his songs sometime, because in no way is he 'howling.' Maynard is NOT rapping, he's just talking really really fast in a way that is supposed to symbolize a 'stream of consciousness.'

Honestly, I thought that was a more appropriate approach to the song than singing every word a la Operation: Mindcrime (not that Operation: Mindcrime is bad, it's just that it's already been done).

I think tool was doing those kind of parts in songs before messugah could put on their pants.

how about vicarious the
part vampire part warrior part

dun dun dun dun DUN dun.. dun dun.. dun DUN dun dun DUN dun dun dun dun DUN dun.. dun dun.. dun DUN dun dun DUN

thats wicked meshuggah

No joke indeed, i was absessed with slipknot for a while back in the day and that saounds like them at 4:01

I hear people say that sometimes, but I've been jamming those sons of bitches in my ears for all of my 25 years, and I've never had a problem. It's when I don't use them that I feel all out of whack. You gotta get out the wax.

If anything, the bassline at the 1:03 mark has an uncanny resemblance to the keyboards in "The Way" by Amorphis off the album, Tuonela. Check it out if you're not familiar with them.

Slipknot??? Didnt your mother tell you it was rude to swear?

Well, I'm fairly familiar with slipknot because the guy whose desk is across from mine at work is (misguidedly) obsessed with them and always has their music on after hours, and I just don't know about anything on this song, or even Rosetta Stoned, sounding like that band.

I like Sevendust, though. They're one of the better straightforward hard rock/metal outfits out there if you ask me, and I can hear a little bit of a Sevendust vibe at 4:01. I doubt there's a direct influence there, though. It's just funky, as Tool has been know to be from time to time.

And Sevendust, also, is quite funky.

I'm pretty sure this entire CD is a Dream Theatre rip off

Tool has more in common with nu-metal than most fans would like to admit.