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“Fear Inoculum” by Tool
From the album Fear Inoculum (2019)
“Fear Inoculum” by Tool appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2019 and 2020. It was first released in 2019 on the album Fear Inoculum. Its best result is #2 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 alternative song of 2019 and #436 of the '10s.
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Tool ended a long silence on August 7, 2019, with "Fear Inoculum", which named their fifth album, led it off as a single and marked the first new Tool song since 10,000 Days. Nobody could accuse them of rushing it. Danny Carey's drums coil and uncoil, Justin Chancellor's bass and Adam Jones' guitar circle each other like wary animals, and Maynard James Keenan, who wrote the words, sings with the calm of a man who knows he has all the time in the world. The band produced it themselves, with Joe Barresi recording and mixing.
It was long enough to make history: its Hot 100 debut set a Guinness World Record for the longest song ever to chart there, knocking off David Bowie's "Blackstar", until André 3000 claimed the record in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2019 | 91 |
| 2019 | 7 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2019 | 50 |
| 2019 | 2 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2019 | 88 |
| 2019 | 76 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019 | 103 |
| 2019 | 2 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019 | 25 |
| 2020 | 28 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 | 91 |
| 2020 | 43 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2020 | 98 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 71 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2020 | 70 | X96 | X96's Top 100 Songs of the Last Decade | 100 |
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