I have epic music taste.

SHE SINGS LIKE AN ANGEL! hahaha.

dont get me wrong tho, i WILL be picking up their new album when it drops [maybe this year, maybe next] and giving it a try. cause deep down inside me, i still want TOOL to be relevant in the music industry.

and be glad you came into them around 10000 days era. you got to miss the snobby-shithead-maynard that floated around in the beginning of the 21st century that made his fans really uncomfortable.

Well, with TOOL you have to remember it's one main guy with 3 voices around him giving opinions and shaping songs.. with NiN, it's really only ever been TR and his vision until recently. So obviously NiN floundered in creative vision for a while. But if you listen to With Teeth or Year Zero [even their latest, The Slip, is a solid album. although it had to grow on me.], theyre incredibly solid albums with no bullshit in between. I thoroughly enjoyed The Fragile's sound sensibility, but I know what you mean about the direction taken with Fragile, its remixes and the cd of Still. Just sort of "lets see how experimental and glitched we can get" with no real meat behind it.