Listen: Tool's "Fear Inoculum"

After their 2006 LP 10,000 Days, Tool — the LA based alt-rock four piece — have shook off a thirteen-year-long musical hibernation to mount what appears to be a thrilling return with Fear Inoculum, a genre-defying polyrhythmic song that shape-shifts — alternating between the occidental and the oriental (the tabla is a masterstroke!), prog-rock and metal, melodic and heavy, brooding and abrasive — that's at once epic and mesmerising. Give it a listen below -

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