Lateralus

You know what you're buying when you get a Tool album. An intense immersive bit of progressive hard rock, this is not for casual listening. When you listen to this, you have to really mean it.<br /
Tool could rightly claim the throne as a latter day King Crimson. Incredibly tight and complex compositions, brilliant phrasing, obscure lyrics, and epic masterpieces. There is a sense of greatness just listening to the album. You understand that they are quite serious about music. Make no mistake, they love it and enjoy it, but they also take it very seriously. Nothing like Perfect Circle, this is grabs you by the throat slams you against the wall and then lectures you about everything that is wrong in the world.