(kind of a pointless post) Has anyone noticed this on the Fear Inoculum Audio videos on YT?
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The live version of Third eye is so extremely fucking good. It’s slowly become my favourite tool song after having heard every tool song. Third eye is the culmination of their sweet insanity
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A somewhat deep dive into the political and sonic subtext of Tool’s Die Eier von Satan.
Ænima came out in 1996, right in the middle of the global surge of industrial music’s popularity. Bands like Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral was 1994), Ministry (Psalm 69 was 1992), and German groups like KMFDM and Einstürzende Neubauten had a big presence by then. German industrial and experimental music had a long, rich history (predating the 90s) and it was often pretty political, noisy, harsh, with a deep, confrontational edge. Shoutout to the Slovenian group, Laibach, as well! Check out their self-titled debut album) from 1985 if you're into martial industrial!
In Germany during that time, industrial bands leaned heavily into harsh mechanical sounds and provocative political imagery to critique systems of control, war, and dehumanization. Their industrial sound was cold, abrasive, and often deeply political. Meanwhile, in the U.S., industrial was blowing up in the mainstream too (Nine Inch Nails, Ministry), but American industrial tended to be more emotional and introspective rather than overtly political (themes of inner turmoil, alienation, drug addiction, depression).
Germany’s scene kept that experimental, confrontational spirit alive longer. They often used aggressive political imagery — to critique systems of control, war, dehumanization. Also, German industrial leaned harder into minimalism and harsh soundscapes than U.S. industrial, which got more melodic and emotional over time.
Die Eier von Satan feels much closer to the German tradition: cold, mechanical, authoritarian in tone, without revealing its real content right away or that it's actually a parody. Tool's choice to go full industrial just for this one song makes it stand out massively from the rest of Ænima and their entire discography.
The track uses pounding, mechanical industrial noise, a shouted German speech, and crowd noise that unmistakably evokes the atmosphere of a totalitarian political rally — especially ones associated with Nazi Germany. They’re playing with the power of aesthetics: how sound, rhythm, language, and delivery can manipulate feeling, fear, obedience, or excitement regardless of the content (and ironically, the content here is banal — a bad baking recipe).
A harmless recipe for hash cookies, specifically calling for "Türkischer Haschisch". Turkey has historically been known for producing some of the world's strongest hashish (pressed cannabis resin). Especially in the '60s and '70s, Turkish hash was famous (and infamous) in counterculture circles — think of movies like Midnight Express (1978), which portrayed Turkish drug laws and prisons as extremely harsh and brutal. By the 1990s, Turkey was cracking down heavily on drug trafficking, trying to align more with Western Europe to improve diplomatic ties, so hash was much harder to come by legally or illegally.
In the '90s, the mention of "Turkish hash" would still instantly evoke this exotic, almost dangerous vibe — an underground, forbidden image associated with rebellion and risk. It fits perfectly with the irony of the song: you have this rigid, militant-sounding speech about baking... with Turkish hash as an ingredient. It slyly plays on ideas of authority, control, rebellion, and intoxication.
So Tool tapping into German language, an industrial sound, and Turkish hash in Die Eier von Satan feels like a deliberate cultural collage that plays with rebellion, authority, forbidden substances, and sound manipulation — all themes very alive in both industrial music and 1990s counterculture.
And it’s fascinating because they're almost mimicking the German industrial style more than the American one — cold, impersonal, mechanical, politically suggestive — while the rest of Ænima feels much more American in its emotional messiness and spiritual searching.
I think it's the only track where they go full martial industrial — they flirt with heavy, mechanical sounds in other songs, but nothing else on
Ænima came out in 1996, right in the middle of the global surge of industrial music’s popularity. Bands like Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral was 1994), Ministry (Psalm 69 was 1992), and German groups like KMFDM and Einstürzende Neubauten had a big presence by then. German industrial and experimental music had a long, rich history (predating the 90s) and it was often pretty political, noisy, harsh, with a deep, confrontational edge. Shoutout to the Slovenian group, Laibach, as well! Check out their self-titled debut album) from 1985 if you're into martial industrial!
In Germany during that time, industrial bands leaned heavily into harsh mechanical sounds and provocative political imagery to critique systems of control, war, and dehumanization. Their industrial sound was cold, abrasive, and often deeply political. Meanwhile, in the U.S., industrial was blowing up in the mainstream too (Nine Inch Nails, Ministry), but American industrial tended to be more emotional and introspective rather than overtly political (themes of inner turmoil, alienation, drug addiction, depression).
Germany’s scene kept that experimental, confrontational spirit alive longer. They often used aggressive political imagery — to critique systems of control, war, dehumanization. Also, German industrial leaned harder into minimalism and harsh soundscapes than U.S. industrial, which got more melodic and emotional over time.
Die Eier von Satan feels much closer to the German tradition: cold, mechanical, authoritarian in tone, without revealing its real content right away or that it's actually a parody. Tool's choice to go full industrial just for this one song makes it stand out massively from the rest of Ænima and their entire discography.
The track uses pounding, mechanical industrial noise, a shouted German speech, and crowd noise that unmistakably evokes the atmosphere of a totalitarian political rally — especially ones associated with Nazi Germany. They’re playing with the power of aesthetics: how sound, rhythm, language, and delivery can manipulate feeling, fear, obedience, or excitement regardless of the content (and ironically, the content here is banal — a bad baking recipe).
A harmless recipe for hash cookies, specifically calling for "Türkischer Haschisch". Turkey has historically been known for producing some of the world's strongest hashish (pressed cannabis resin). Especially in the '60s and '70s, Turkish hash was famous (and infamous) in counterculture circles — think of movies like Midnight Express (1978), which portrayed Turkish drug laws and prisons as extremely harsh and brutal. By the 1990s, Turkey was cracking down heavily on drug trafficking, trying to align more with Western Europe to improve diplomatic ties, so hash was much harder to come by legally or illegally.
In the '90s, the mention of "Turkish hash" would still instantly evoke this exotic, almost dangerous vibe — an underground, forbidden image associated with rebellion and risk. It fits perfectly with the irony of the song: you have this rigid, militant-sounding speech about baking... with Turkish hash as an ingredient. It slyly plays on ideas of authority, control, rebellion, and intoxication.
So Tool tapping into German language, an industrial sound, and Turkish hash in Die Eier von Satan feels like a deliberate cultural collage that plays with rebellion, authority, forbidden substances, and sound manipulation — all themes very alive in both industrial music and 1990s counterculture.
And it’s fascinating because they're almost mimicking the German industrial style more than the American one — cold, impersonal, mechanical, politically suggestive — while the rest of Ænima feels much more American in its emotional messiness and spiritual searching.
I think it's the only track where they go full martial industrial — they flirt with heavy, mechanical sounds in other songs, but nothing else on
Ænima or even later albums feels quite like this.
Even the title — Die Eier von Satan ("The Eggs of Satan") — is a sly double entendre: "Eier" is German slang for testicles. So the "eggs" could be literal (for a baking recipe) or something far more irreverent and absurd.
TLDR; Tool created a striking and deliberate dichotomy in Die Eier von Satan: the terrifying tone and imagery prime you to expect danger, violence, or political extremism — but the actual message is silly, harmless, even ridiculous. It’s a commentary on how easily people are manipulated by spectacle, presentation, and emotional tone, rather than critical thinking about the content itself, which involves looking into the lyrics and culture of the time.
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Even the title — Die Eier von Satan ("The Eggs of Satan") — is a sly double entendre: "Eier" is German slang for testicles. So the "eggs" could be literal (for a baking recipe) or something far more irreverent and absurd.
TLDR; Tool created a striking and deliberate dichotomy in Die Eier von Satan: the terrifying tone and imagery prime you to expect danger, violence, or political extremism — but the actual message is silly, harmless, even ridiculous. It’s a commentary on how easily people are manipulated by spectacle, presentation, and emotional tone, rather than critical thinking about the content itself, which involves looking into the lyrics and culture of the time.
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Ænima promo poster. I had forgotten that Ænima was the first album ever released by Volcano.
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Heavy. The rhythm guitar builds like a steam engine then turns into an alien, almost Neil Young-like talk box solo. Fucking wild; makes sense Adam Jones loves film and design - feels like a cinematic war scene (3:42-5:30 of Jambi)
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Missing lyrics in Jambi
In Jambi, I specifically remember a line that said “The devil and his had me down” but now when I listen to the song, it’s not there. Is this just me or has anyone else heard or noticed this?
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In Jambi, I specifically remember a line that said “The devil and his had me down” but now when I listen to the song, it’s not there. Is this just me or has anyone else heard or noticed this?
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