History NightmareFuel / Tool

--->''My lamb and martyr, you look so precious''\\
''Won't you come a bit closer''\\
''Close enough so I can smell you''\\
''I need you to feel this''\\
''I can't stand to burn too long''\\
''Released in this sodomy''\\
''For one sweet moment I am whole''

** The lyrics of "Prison Sex" initially appear to be told from the perspective of someone who suffered from child abuse, but then the second verse comes along and you realize it's being told by a child abuse victim...''who ends up becoming a child abuser themselves:''

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** The opening track on ''Undertow'' is just as bad. It's supposed to sound like someone running out of oxygen underwater.

-->''My lamb and martyr, you look so precious''
-->''Won't you come a bit closer''
-->''Close enough so I can smell you''
-->''I need you to feel this''
-->''I can't stand to burn too long''
-->''Released in this sodomy''
-->''For one sweet moment I am whole''

* Listening to "Die Eier Von Satan" for the first time can be intimidating: The incredibly dissonant guitar noises, backward drums, and vocals in a [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler-esque]] German voice. [[spoiler: Until you find out what he is saying in English: [[NightmareRetardant it's just a German recipe for hash cookies. On top of that, the title in German may also mean "Satan's Balls".]]]]

* The music video for "Schism". [[UncannyValley Words alone fail to do it justice]].

** The lyrics of "Prison Sex" initially appear to be told from the perspective of someone who suffered from child abuse, but then the second verse comes along and you realize it's being told by a child abuse victim... ''who ends up becoming a child abuser themselves:''

** The music video for "Prison Sex" is even creepier, if you know what the song is about.
** The video for "Sober" is extremely unnerving.
*** There is no such thing as a Tool video that is not mind-meltingly disturbing.
*** Well, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_WKwbueG8 Hush]].

** Tool's music videos are always freaky and disturbing, but for the most part ("Sober", "Ænema", "Vicarious" etc) they're pretty abstract in what all the nightmare imagery represents. The reason "Prison Sex" has long provided the page image for [[NightmareFuel/MusicVideos the Nightmare Fuel page for music videos]] is that, despite its similarly surrealistic visuals, it's very much ''not''. Every time the chorus hits and the black figure descends on the white doll, that's a blatant and undisguised visual representation of ''a child being raped!''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5qyfxtYt8 "Useful Idiot"]] was set at the end of the ''Ænima'' vinyl's side 1 and the run-in groove of side 2 as a prank on that record's owners. However, in the wrong setting, it feels like it just ''might'' cut into a {{jump scare}}...

* And for the finale, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5qyfxtYt8 Useful Idiot]].
** Which, as a joke, was put onto the album to trick people who brought the vinyl edition. During the day, it can be considered a joke. However, when played in the dark, it somehow turns into ParanoiaFuel that sounds like it might cut to a [[JumpScare jump scare]].

** What about the interlude "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvC3BfMcZI&feature=related Cesaro Summability]]"? ''God''. It opens with a bunch of EarRape baby screams, then the whole rest of the "song" is made up of dissonant [[DroneOfDread guitar noises]] and talking.

* Third Eye is terrifying. From the false buildups in the first 3 minutes, to the stoned howls of "PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE" and the chants of "I opened my eye, and there we were" are just like a nightmarish lullaby. I can only imagine what it sounds like stoned.

** Which, as a joke, was put onto the album to trick people who brought the vinyl edition. During the day, it can be considered a joke. However, when played in the dark, it somehows turns into [[ParanoiaFuel paranoia fuel]] that sounds like it might cut to a [[JumpScare jump scare]].

* Listening to "Die Eier Von Satan" for the first time can be intimidating: The incredibly dissonant guitar noises, backward drums, and vocals in a Hitler-esque German voice. [[spoiler: Until you find out what he is saying in English: [[NightmareRetardant it's just a German recipe for hash cookies. On top of that, the title in German may also mean "Satan's Balls".]]]]