Will be falling asleep listening to this…
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Jesus, this thread isn’t what I thought it would be… I was expecting it to be about some programme on Discovery… It’s even worse than that 
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Yes - most definitely.
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Tool are some aul band, Lateralus my favourite record of theirs. There’s this whole connection to the Fibonacci sequence going on through the album and you can rearrange the order of the songs to “spiral out” on either side of the last song placed in the middle - the so called “Holy Gift”. Now, to be honest, I doubt if Tool ever intended it to be played like this, I’d say some fella with a lot of time and even more wacky-backy on his hands had a eureka moment listening to the stereo one day, but it’s a grand aul story and I think the album does actually sound better this way:
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Would you believe it, but I ripped a version of the Holy Gift and have it in the car. It’s a savage album however you play it. Have seen them live a few times now - never fail to amaze. I could watch Danny Carey drum all day.
As for Lateralus, the alchemical and Saturn references in the title track are the most meaningful lyrics ever committed to a record. A modern masterpiece.
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Where are you from, pal?
I was very young when I was born, and don’t rightly remember. They tell me Galway. Either that or “not of this earth”. 
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PS. Fair play for the post pal - that’s a belter! Keep it up!
@PhattPike - ever see the Hardy Bucks episode where they crashed the hippy party in the forest? The hippies were giving it the “one love” mularkey, but when the Bucks arrived on the scen, they get very intimidated and their upper-middle class snobbery came to the fore.
Anyway, some flute uttered the genius line:
“You know if you listen to Tool non stop for hours it can cure cancer”
Would love to find that scene again… funny shit!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqfmqNPsFHg
“The Dalai Lama, he rocks.” 
Never had the fortune of seeing Tool live, I know they’ve been recording a new record for nearly the best part of a decade at this stage, should be out…soon. If they tour over this side of the planet to support it I’d hope to see them.
Have a bang off these bucks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrl3Ihh5X3I
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Hahaha! Fair play for finding that pal.
The Elder album is very nice. May I return the favour with this gem? (@Fagan_ODowd - you might enjoy this album too)
In Flames - Dead Eternity
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3AZy4mOLCo
In Flames - December Flower (cracking solo at 1:27)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ojVeDn7Z1w
In Flames - Wayfarer (instrumental track)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3AZy4mOLCo
In Flames - Moonshield
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AmcC9aJkBlw
Allmusic.com Review by Steve Huey
"Of the three albums that make up Gothenburg’s holy trinity, Dark Tranquillity’s The Gallery was the least immediate, with unorthodox song structures that took time to assimilate, while At the Gates’ Slaughter of the Soul didn’t truly cement its classic status until a new generation of American metalcore bands started to copy it riff for riff. In Flames’ The Jester Race, however, pretty much announced itself as a masterwork right from day one. More than any other, this is the album that put the “melodic” in melodic death metal. Traditionalists who’d never been able to stomach death metal’s brutality were stunned to hear winding, intricate twin-guitar lines lifted from Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and countless European power metal records. The neat trick of The Jester Race is that it maintains the intensity of death metal, but dispenses with the apparent chaos: it’s a tightly controlled, meticulously arranged album with nary a note out of place, even during the fastest sections. There are plenty of midtempo grooves here (with and without double-time drums), and – shockingly for the genre – bright major-key compositions like the triumphant instrumental “The Wayfaerer.” Most of the arrangements straddle both worlds, contrasting cerebral lyrics, moody clean-toned arpeggios, and those harmonized lead lines with typically Swedish detuned riffing and the hoarse death-style growls of ex-Dark Tranquillity vocalist Anders Fridén. Despite the album’s flashy reputation, there isn’t much soloing per se (although session guitarist Fredrik Johansson steps in on the excellent “December Flower” to deliver some spotlessly articulated fireworks). Instead, bandleader Jesper Strömblad and tag-team partner Glenn Ljungström have embedded most of the technical guitar work in the confines of the song structures, and that’s where all the melody comes from. And there’s entirely too much of it for death metal purists. For everyone else, it makes album (and career) highlights like “Moonshield,” “Artifacts of the Black Rain,” and “Lord Hypnos” instantly memorable, impeccably crafted additions to the heavy metal canon. The Jester Race did more to make death metal accessible to a wider audience than any other album save perhaps Entombed’s landmark Wolverine Blues. To purists, that may be a sin as unforgivable as the band’s later move into mass-market metalcore, but The Jester Race’s place in metal history is assured nonetheless.
Not quite metal but http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/12/report-scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-frontman-has-died/
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He was a good frontman - got to see him live. Surprised in many respects he lived this long.
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