the new tool album is pretty good, but its bordering being nu-metal, which is a sickening genre. I love "Lateralus" for its spiritual/philisopical meaning and how talented Tool is for the kind of music they play. I mainly listen to folk, jam bands, radiohead, and Primus, and Tool is one of the few metal bands i really like. Instead of playing generic shitty pop-metal that all sounds the same like Disturbed or Slipknot etc. they play alot of diverse and musically complicated stuff thats very original. "10,000 Days" is still very good, but compared to "Lateralus", it's leaning towords the metal mainstream and sounds very produced. this is why I was sort of dissapointed by the whole thing.

Les CLaypool is still god though.