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Ænima
''Ænima'' ( ) is the second studio album by the American rock band Tool. It was released in vinyl format on September 17, 1996, and in compact disc format on October 1, 1996, through Zoo Entertainment. The album was recorded and cut at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood and The Hook in North Hollywood from 1995 to 1996. It is the first album by Tool to feature bassist Justin Chancellor, who replaced original bassist Paul D'Amour the year prior. The album was produced by David Bottrill. The album debuted at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart upon its initial release, selling 148,000 copies in its first week. It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA on March 4, 2003. The album appeared on lists of the best albums of 1996 in ''Kerrang!'' and '' Terrorizer''. The track "Ænema" won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1998. In 2003, ''Ænima'' was ranked the sixth most influential album of all time by ''Kerrang!'' ''Rolling Stone'' listed the album at No. 18 ...
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Tool (band)
Tool is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1990. It consists of vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones (musician), Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, who replaced founding member Paul D'Amour in 1995. Tool has won four Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping charts in several countries. The band has released five studio albums, one Opiate (EP), EP and one Salival, box set. They emerged with a heavy metal music, heavy metal sound on their first studio album, ''Undertow (Tool album), Undertow'' (1993), and became a dominant act in the alternative metal movement with the release of their follow-up album ''Ænima'' in 1996. The group's efforts to combine musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued with ''Lateralus'' (2001) and ''10,000 Days (Tool album), 10,000 Days'' (2006), gaining critical acclaim and international commercial success. Their fift ...
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Ænema
"Ænema" is a song by American rock band Tool, released as a promotional single from their second major-label release ''Ænima''. Adam Jones made a video for the song using stop-motion animation; it is included in the '' Salival'' box set. The song reached number twenty-five on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in August 1997. The song makes extensive use of hemiola, a musical technique in which the emphasis in a triple meter is changed to give the illusion that both a duple and a triple meter occur in the song. The song is cast in terminally climactic form, in which two verse/chorus pairs give way to a climactic ending on new material. Music video Adam Jones directed the video for "Ænema" which features stop-motion Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animation, animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appe ... anim ...
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Peach (band)
Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor (born 19 November 1971) is an English musician, best known as the bassist for rock band Tool, a position he has held since 1995. Prior to joining Tool, he played in a band called Peach. After settling in the US, along with his engagement in his musical projects, he and his wife Shelee Dykman Chancellor ran a store called Lobal Orning in Topanga, California, dedicated to music and literature "that shaped and changed" both of them. The store closed in 2008. He started M.T.Void music project with Piotr "Glaca" Mohammed from Sweet Noise. Early life Chancellor is of English and Norwegian descent. He was educated at Tonbridge School in Kent, England, where he was the bass player for a school band named Slice of Life and used to perform a cover version of Corey Hart's " Sunglasses at Night" in the dining room of his boarding house. The band released an eponymous titled tape featuring a song of the same name. Chancellor went on to study at Durham ...
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Salival
''Salival'' is a live, outtake, and video album, released as a limited edition box set in CD/ VHS and CD/ DVD formats in 2000 by American rock band Tool. It includes a 56-page book of photos and stills from their music videos. Background The live track "You Lied" is a cover of a song by bass player Justin Chancellor's previous band Peach. The cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" was originally planned to be used for the soundtrack to '' Private Parts'', but Tool subsequently decided against allowing it to be used, leading to criticism from Howard Stern, who had previously endorsed the band. ''Salival'' is the second and final official Tool release (as of 2025) to feature a substantial amount of live material (Tool's other official live release, consisting of songs primarily from Lollapalooza '93, is available on the out-of-print '' Sober – Tales from the Darkside''). The tracks were recorded from several different shows prior to ''Salival''s release in 2000; however, be ...
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Undertow (Tool Album)
''Undertow'' is the debut studio album by the American rock band Tool, released on April 6, 1993, by Zoo Entertainment. Produced by the band and Sylvia Massy and recorded from October to December 1992 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys and Grandmaster Recorders in Hollywood, the album includes some tracks omitted from the band's debut EP ''Opiate'' and is their only album to feature original bassist Paul D'Amour. According to AllMusic, ''Undertow'' helped heavy metal remain prominent as a mainstream musical style, and allowed several later bands to break through to the mainstream. It was released at a time when grunge was at the height of its popularity, and pop punk was slowly beginning to gather mainstream attention. AllMusic saw the album's success in the "striking, haunting visuals that complemented the album's nihilistic yet wistful mood." As of 2021, ''Undertow'' has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 3 milli ...
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Stinkfist
"Stinkfist", also referred to as ''Track #1'' due to the perceived offensiveness of the actual title, is a song by American rock band Tool A tool is an Physical object, object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task. Although many Tool use by animals, animals use simple tools, only human bei .... It is their first industry single and first music video release from their second major label album '' Ænima''. Interpretation The song title, the lyrics and the perceived subject matter ( fisting and drug addiction) caused changes to be made to the originally released version by TV and radio programmers, who also shortened the track. The track has also been remixed by Skinny Puppy. Keenan said the use of the words "stink" and "fist" and the resulting perception of " fist fucking" is actually symbolic in dealing with a friend of drummer Danny Carey who "isn't afraid of getting his hands ...
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Paul D'Amour
Paul D'Amour (born 1968 or 1969) is an American musician who was the original bassist for Tool. His bass sound is recognized by the aggressive picked tone he developed with his Chris Squire Signature Rickenbacker 4001CS, which can be heard on Tool's first full-length album, '' Undertow''. Since March 2019, he has been the bassist for industrial metal band Ministry. Biography D'Amour was born in Spokane, Washington. Originally a guitarist, D'Amour became Tool's bassist after being introduced to the band by Adam Jones. Like Jones, D'Amour was in Los Angeles because of his wish to enter the film industry. D'Amour built movie sets and worked in an art department on music videos and commercials. D'Amour notably appeared on Tool's debut release, ''Opiate'', in 1992 and also '' Undertow'' the following year. The band achieved mainstream success due to ''Undertow'', fueled by the charting singles " Sober" and " Prison Sex". In late 1995, D'Amour left Tool during the early recording ...
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Volcano Entertainment
Volcano Entertainment (sometimes referred to as Volcano Records) is an American all-round music record label founded in 1996 which released albums by Tool, 311, Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic. (The latter two were former Scotti Bros. Records artists and the only artists retained from that label.) The Volcano Records catalog is owned by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. History Volcano Records was founded in 1996 by Kevin Czinger. It is essentially the continuation of Zoo Entertainment which Czinger bought from BMG in 1996. Initially, the company was meant to have two divisions ''Zoo/Volcano'' and ''Volcano'' which would be a hip-hop imprint.Jeffrey, Don. "Zoo Acquired by Start-Up Volcano; Firm Also Launches Hip-Hop Imprint" ''Billboard'' 108:34 (24 August 1996) The first album released with the new ownership was Tool's album ''Ænima'' followed by actor Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar's album '' Our Little Visionary''. However, the Zoo name was eventually ph ...
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Enema
An enema, also known as a clyster, is the rectal administration of a fluid by injection into the Large intestine, lower bowel via the anus.Cullingworth, ''A Manual of Nursing, Medical and Surgical'':155 The word ''enema'' can also refer to the liquid injected, as well as to a device for administering such an injection. In standard medicine, the most frequent uses of enemas are to relieve constipation and for bowel cleansing before a medical examination or procedure; also, they are employed as a lower gastrointestinal series (also called a barium enema), to treat Travelers' diarrhea, traveler's diarrhea, as a vehicle for the administration of food, water or medicine, as a stimulant to the general system, as a local application and, more rarely, as a means of reducing body temperature, as treatment for encopresis, and as a form of Management of dehydration, rehydration therapy (proctoclysis) in patients for whom intravenous therapy is not applicable. Medical usage The princip ...
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. A prolific author of Carl Jung publications, over 20 books, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a complex and convoluted academic, best known for his concept of Jungian archetypes, archetypes. Alongside contemporaries Sigmund Freud, Freud and Alfred Adler, Adler, Jung became one of the most influential psychologists of the early 20th century and has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. He worked as a research scientist at the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich, under Eugen Bleuler. Jung established himself as an influential mind, developing a friendship with Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, conducting a The Freud/Jung Letters, leng ...
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Anima
Anima may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities * Anima, in the Spira world in ''Final Fantasy'' games * Anima, in the ''Fire Emblem'' game series * Anima (comics), a DC Comics character Film * '' Anima – Symphonie phantastique'', a 1981 Austrian drama film * ''Anima'' (2003 film), a 2003 American short film * ''Ánima'', a 2018 Mexican film directed by Kuno Becker * ''Anima'', a 1998 film with George Bartenieff * ''Anima'' (2019 film), a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Literature * ''Anima'', a 1972 novel by Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan * '' Anima: Age of the Robots'', a comic series by Johnny Tay * '' +Anima'', a 2001 manga series by Natsumi Mukai * '' Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima'', a Japanese light novel series Music Performers * Anima (chorus), an American children's chorus * Anima (ensemble), a Brazilian chamber music ensemble * Aenima (band), a Portuguese rock band * Anima Sound System, a Hungarian electronic band Rec ...
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