Although lead singer Maynard Keenan seems to have drank the Kool aid as of late with all his "Trump is racist" & other parroting of MSM buzz phrases, back in the day, this band was actually pretty based & redpilled.
Check out their original demo tape, listen all the way through, especially the last track, and you tell me these guys didn't get it.
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They were signed after only 3 months of being together, & the (((mainstream record company bloodsuckers))) were rock-hard & foaming at the mouth, eager to exploit them like all the others.
Despite that, tool gained incredible fame & popularity without ever signing to any of the mainstream labels and as a result were able to maintain total creative control, with a big "FUCK YOU" to the hawk-nosed parasites that thought they were going to take these talented young men for all they got.
They really were "the one that got away"- only because they maintained their artistic vision & stood firm to their values of artistic integrity - not selling out like so many other hopeful artists, and to push the message of the (((elites))). They called out the idiocy & inhumanity of government bureaucracy. They channeled their rage wisely.
As an aside, without this band, the world would have not learned of the genius of comedian Bill Hicks. Another Dead Hero who saw beyond the Veil, emerged from the Cave & tried to warn us the reality we thought we knew was in fact nothing but Shadows & Illusion, that we had to resist the coming take over
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Hicks was unique. He was very pro 2nd Amendment, anti-bureaucracy, also of the 90's liberal slant: he believed like the rest of us that the Left wanted a colorblind society - he wasn't aware they wanted us as second class citizens.
Tragically he died from pancreatic cancer before he could see their egalitarianism turned on us.
I would have loved to hear him speak today.