Fear Inoculum Songs Ranked

Fear Inoculum is the fifth studio album by American rock band Tool. It was released on August 30, 2019, through Tool Dissectional, Volcano Entertainment, and RCA Records. It is the band’s first album in 13 years, due to creative, personal, and legal issues band members encountered since the release of 10,000 Days. It was released to critical acclaim, with reviewers generally agreeing that the band had successfully refined their established sound. The album topped the US Billboard 200 chart, their third in a row to do so, selling over 270,000 album-equivalent units. The album topped five other national album charts in its opening week as well. Two songs off the album received Grammy nominations, the first single “Fear Inoculum”, for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, and “7empest”, for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, with the latter winning the award. Here are all of Fear Inoculum songs ranked.

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10. Mockingbeat

“Mockingbeat is actually pretty fucked up and cool and shows what Tool could sound like as an electro band. It’s an insane piece that reminds us before closing the album that these guys are, and have always been out there.”

9. Legion Inoculant

“Scary. Kind of like a monster that is bubbling under the surface and that you don’t wanna wake up but also is saying something. An alien from a distant galaxy maybe. Protuberances in the sun.”

8. Litanie Contre la Peur

“Creepy and kind of mesmerising. You don’t know where it’s going to go. Kind of like life in the afterlife. I actually quite like it. Especially at 1:30 where it spreads.”

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7. Chocolate Chip Trip

“Well, the rabbit squeaking sound is damn stupid but I guess the point is to show that a drum solo can make up a song. In that vein, it’s a clever addition, and bizarrely extremely listenable. Why? I guess because Danny Carey is THAT good. Not only is he technically versatile, he shows a lot of creativity with his skill set and styles. The song is basically a resume for Danny Carey.”

6. Culling Voices

“Now this is where they kind of dropped the ball for me. It’s ok after the gigantic tracks that have preceded, but does not stand out as much. I guess they were really going for the atmospheric feel on this one, which kind of works. Think maybe Swans Kirsten Supine but with not as much vision.”

5. Fear Inoculum

“Every morning I wake up putting on the track Fear Inoculum in my head and it feels like I am cleansing myself inside to start the day. Spiritual? Well, to me it kind of is in the sense that the song just plunges me in a state of elevation, as if I was climbing a mountain and taking deep breaths to accomplish the road ahead and I hear words of “immunity” “exhale”.

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4. Invincible

“The track that I think stands out is invincible. I just love the theme of obsoleteness as a realisation of the modern world’s accessibility taking over skill and acumen that no one cares about. The music is also interesting, the way it just slows down and drags like a tired man trying to get through. I love the guitar as well and it’s one of Maynard’s best sung tracks.”

3. Descending

“Descending is slowly growing on me more and more. It’s a the dark horse of the album. More understated, it shows a mature and developed approach to Tool’s music. It could well be the highlight of the album.”

2. Pneuma

“By the time Pneuma hits its instrumental passage, you do appreciate the immaculateness of the music. It all fits perfectly. There is an overwhelming sense of wholeness that fills you up with the album. And when the bass comes back, it is as if everything has a meaning, and an explanation. Everything is connected. This could be euphoria in its purest sense.”

1. 7empest

“The most diverse of all the songs given it’s the longest. You hear fast power chords from Undertow, screeching guitar feedback from Ænima, bouncing basslines from Lateralus, long drum solos from 10,000 Days, even both the layered weaving soft vocals and aggressive vocals are familiar to Maynard’s work in A Perfect Circle. This song, similar to third eye, is a perfect album closer… but actually incapsulates Tool’s sounds beautifully”