Tool fans and other pranksters helped the spread of Lateralus disinformation before the album releaseīack in the Wild West days of Napster leaks, numerous fake tracks circulated online - to the point where fan sites were forced to play referee. According to the band's Web site ( ), the follow-up to 1996's Æ nima will include 'Malfeasance,' 'U.V.R.,' 'Numbereft,' 'Encephatalis,' 'Mummery,' 'Coeliacus,' 'Pain Canal,' 'Lactation,' 'Smyrma,' and 'Riverchrist.'"įucking "Pain Canal"? "Riverchrist"? If you fell for that one, you had it coming.Ĥ. Just take this ABC News blurb: "Tool, in the final stages of tinkering with its new album, has unveiled a title for the long-awaited LP: Systema Enc é phale. The beauty of the gag is that major news outlets picked up the goofy names and ran with them.
During the preceding hype for Lateralus, they teased a fake album title and track list. Tool, always way funnier than anyone gives them credit for, have never been shy to fuck around with their fans.
"Faaip de Oiad" translates to "The Voice of God" in Enochian, an angelic language documented by Renaissance-era British occult philosopher John Dee and his self-described "spirit medium" colleague Edward Kelley.ģ. Instead of just titling the track "Area 51" or something obvious, Tool added another mystical layer. "Who knows if he was speaking from a rational state, is really panicked or is a complete schizophrenic who completely lost it?" drummer Danny Carey told Modern Drummer in June 2001. During the infamous recording, the caller claims to be a former employee of Area 51 and panics audibly that his message is being "." According to legend, the satellite carrying the feed died during the broadcast, and someone claiming to be the caller later admitted that he fabricated the tale. The song itself blends white noise with distorted drums and a man's feverish rants about "extradimensional beings" - the latter sampled from a 1997 call into Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show. The terrifying instrumental piece " Faaip de Oiad" is, in trademark Tool style, filled with Easter Eggs and obscure allusions for fans who are willing to dig