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This band is truly amazing and they just keep getting better. Their recent live albums from 2017-2018 are some of their best releases. I think HN would really appreciate the technical talent of this band.

Here's Danny Carey (Drummer from Tool) talking about this album and how the title track influenced his style. https://youtu.be/SsxSm1xCR-E?t=175 You can definitely hear how that song influenced Tool's signature sound years later.

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Wow, I had never heard this album before and I started listening to the first song Elephant Talk before finishing the article. My first reaction was "this sounds a lot like Primus" and at the end of the article Primus was indeed mentioned as being influenced by this album.

Those first few notes of Discipline had the same effect on me but s/Primus/Tool.

Les Claypool's post Primus band covers a song from Discipline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6LmIB-hvA

Primus / Les Claypool were also influenced by The Residents, another obscure band of inarguably talented musicians and artists creating art and music for a distinctly discerning and uncommon palate.

Gingerbread Man[0], as a visual and aural experience, is uniquely disturbing in a most enthralling fashion.

[0]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hr-I6-gxecg

Yes, for example Tool openly took inspiration from "Frame by frame" to write 7empest, for which they won a Grammy.

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