Tool is unlike any other band on the planet or in any dimension! They are metal, yet progressive, yet not metal. Not your typical Nu-metal or post punk or post rock or whatever label you want to put on them. They have created their own rhythms, styles and melodies that defy everything that most people consider "metal" or "progressive" or "rock". Hard hitting, chanting invoking Tribal infused rhythms that unleash the inner being of animus and energy within, lyrics that speak of healing/magick and pain, bass lines that add a massive depth to the music, and guitar riffs that crunch and wail throughout ones soul. Aenima(IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW YOU SPELL IT PEOPLE, STOP OVER OBSESSING AND OVER ANALYZING EVERYTHING!) at its very core is an amazing work of art that centralizes around the colors electric blue, black, white and green, and emphasizes the unleashing of anger and resentment toward humans, all the while converting pain into power and experience. Raw lyrics sung by one of the most beautiful voices on the planet, laid over some of the most head nodding and soul evoking sounds. Dig deep down into yourself and feel what comes out of you when you hear this music. Some kind of primal feeling of something that is had to remember, yet you know it is there. Aenima is an experience of emotion and pure energy. No other bands can do that. None come close. Tool is in their own catagory. Don't get me wrong, there are no humans on this earth that are better than any other humans, and to think so is pure idiotic and sub-servient. One of the core themes around Tool is the empowerment of the self, which a lot of Tool fans, and metal fans forget or don't know about. Some praise Tool as gods. Please people, they are just people too. Every artists is just a person who happened to speak first. WE all think these things and feel them, some of us just say them first and say them loud. I love Tool, and I think they are amazing musicians. I think that Aenima is chock full of anger, misdirected at that. Anger is good, if one knows how to utilize it and put it in its place. The mystical side of this cd is a wonderful and a great journey into the pain of humantiy and power of us all. I don't believe that this is their greatest accomplishment(LATERALUS IS THE ONE), but this is certainly one of the best albums of its decade and of our generation. But then again, what Tool album isn't?