• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      As someone who was just caping for Tool here, I need to point out that Tool fans are fucking insufferable a good portion of the time. They are too fixated on pseudo-profound bullshit and numerological codes and peyote trips, and it’s not like that wasn’t facilitated by the band itself (Maynard especially).

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        I remember some Tool fan online telling me that the random high frequency noise in their latest album was them trying to send a message or something. Instead of the much more likely explanation that their hearing has suffered after years of performing, and they just didn’t hear the high frequency stuff during production.

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          Most bands do not have an equivalent to Lateralus fans, though a handful do. Being too fixated on peyote trips (or the like) is definitely common, but talking about how the timestamps of drum fills relates to alchemy or some other deliberately esoteric subject as a nebulous metaphor for . . . self-improvement? is definitely not something you’d find among whatever losers listen to Imagine Dragons.

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              imagine dragons fans are passive. they just listen to the music and care about how it makes em feel

              tool fans are far from passive. they need to tell you why tool is good and maynard is a genius. how danny is the best drummer playing the most complex beats ever. this makes them annoying.

              i should know, i am a tool fan

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                Not my experience. I had a gamer zoomer cousin who was obsessed with imagine dragons and would take over the car radio and play exclusively leagueoflegends-core and get really annoyed at anything else and call it boomer music if it had guitars

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        I’m curious to know how many people here who hate tool fans are into metal or jazz and into those scenes? Tool is a lot of people’s only dip into the metal scene so maybe it seems like they are really uniquely mean or pretentious, but trust me you will find people exactly like that at every metal show

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    i once went to a show that maynard did as puscifer. they had some little people wrestling in a lucha libre style which was really neat and some great performances all around. It was at a seated venue in an orchestra hall.

    in between the show and the encore i texted my friends to say i’d meet them at the street corner to pick them up post-show. a guy behind me threatened to beat my head in and got belligerent because i had my phone out momentarily. guy got thrown out after he started pushing me, otherwise unprovoked

    shithead was wearing a tool shirt. tool fans suck ass. i like the music though

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      You know the situation is bad when an MF Doom fan can say that another fan base is too white and be completely justified in saying it lmao

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    I think this is a little harsh, ime 46 & 2 gets the most radio play, and it’s really pretentious but musically it’s still pretty strong. Also I won’t let anyone insult my large adult son, Stinkfist.

    But if any station is playing their last album for some reason, throw those people under the bus. The only good tracks there are the ones Maynard isn’t on.

  • Been a fan of their music since HS, it’s interesting and dark. But I don’t get obsessing over it, never understood people’s drive to worship people like celebrity demi-gods. Maynard is a shit head too and I get bad vibes from him, like he’s hurt people for fun.

    He did however have a concert near a military base once and almost the whole crowd was military, I think it was shortly after the invasion of Iraq. Apparently all he did was bahh like a sleep at them for 40 minutes, kinda funny.