Awesome / tool

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• Keenan is a student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He once put a stage-rushing fan in a rear-naked choke, while in the middle of singing "Pushit", and held him down without missing a note until security finally took him away. Here's the video of said incident.
• The song "Lateralus" is often hailed as one of the crowning jewels of not just Tool's Discography, but of the best songs ever. The most interesting and creative aspect of the song is the usage of the Fibonacci sequence (a very difficult but interesting sequence of numbers), which is not just incorporated within its Time signatures, but in the opening and chorus. Now that's creativity and awesomeness to boot.
  • Even better: if you rearrange the tracks on "Lateralus" in the Fibonacci sequence (also known as the "Holy Gift" sequence to fans), it gives you an entirely different listening experience. Maynard even teases it with the lyrics Overthinking/Overanalyzing/Separate the body from the mind. You clever bastards.
• The song "Hooker With a Penis" is a response to a critic who accused the band of selling out. Not only does it destroy said critic, it also destroys the notion of "selling out" completely.
• After spending a long time being ambivalent towards digital music (partly due to their complicated label and legal issues), as part of promotion for Fear Inoculum, they released their entire catalog on every possible digital platform. Seeing classic songs like "Sober" or "Lateralus" chart again in 2019 had many a fan pumping their fists.
• The big reveal for Fear Inoculum was such a surprising feat that it actually impacted music charts: the album hit number one on the Billboard 200. Number one - something rock (let alone metal) struggles to do! And it was furthered even more when Tool's catalog was put for streaming, and the title track managed to scrape the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, which has not seen a pure rock/metal song in years. It was made clear for any, even the most jaded of the music scene that rock isn't dead.
  • It became more intense when during the album's release date, it went head to head with Taylor Swift's Lover album, with both fans of Swift and Tool awaiting to see which one would be number one. Tool won in the end. Looks like rock/metal isn't dead in mainstream.
• While this one could be argued as a bad decision, it still needs to be said: The tool subreddit was becoming excited for Fear Inoculum when multiple people on the subreddit began to post photos of the special edition packaging arriving at warehouses. The subreddit began to beg any of the people posting to give some leakage of the album, to no answers. That was until one user decided to, just for the hell of it, take a copy from his Target warehouse, go all around Las Vegas to find someone to rip the album as his computer didn't have a disk drive to rip the album on in order to deliver the album to the world. At first, it seemed it was just a sham to excite people (despite the user providing proof that his copy was real and not a display case), but it was only when on August 25th that the album would leak to the world. Suffice to say, Tool fans were surprised and the fact OP delivered.
• The live recording of Danny Carey playing "Pneuma" in concert is Carey's audition tape for the accolade of "World's Greatest Drummer". Carey was 59 at the time of recording and doesn't miss a single beat across almost 12 minutes of intense polyrhythms. Not for nothing is he called "the Octopus" by fans.

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