"With just a multitude of options and parameters, and there's no limit with whatever I want to do in terms of dynamics or blending sounds." Carey's experimentation offered seemingly endless possibilities for the ever-opening third eye of Tool and raised his own status as a modern day master of percussion. "The zone intelligence on those pads is amazing," Carey told Matt Peiken in 1997. Tool, "Stinkfist" Music Videoĭrummer Danny Carey specifically grabbed the near-religious Tool fans with his performance on the first three Ænima tracks, expanding his comprehensive kit even further by using electronic pads, most notably the Simmons SDX. The two tracks act as heavy breaths of sonic meditation, offering a highly sophisticated sense of calm which branches off from Tool's trademark intensity like a fraternal twin. Ænima really begins to take its own shape once the massively distorted "Eulogy" and soul stirring "H." creep into the listener's ears. That change may not have been instantly noticeable once fans popped Ænima into their CD players, as the opening track, "Stinkfist," seemingly picks up where Tool's previous release, Undertow, left off three years previous. "It's about change, cleaning out the house to refurbish or redecorate and start over," frontman Maynard James Keenan told Carrie Borzillo in a 1996 interview. The album title itself refers to psychologist Carl Jung's own term for the soul, "anima." Throw in the alternate name for an anal douche and you wind up with the heavily digested Ænima. Though there may have been a shift in focus, Tool's dry yet flippant scatological humor remained constant.
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