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“Pneuma” by Tool
From the album Fear Inoculum (2019)
“Pneuma” by Tool appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2020 and 2026. It was first released in 2019 on the album Fear Inoculum. Its best result is #2 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 2020 and #193 of the '20s.
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"Pneuma" arrived with no warning on Fear Inoculum, Tool's fifth album, in August 2019: it hadn't been teased or road-tested, and its first live outing came that October at the Aftershock Festival. The band produced it themselves with Joe Barresi recording and mixing, and it's a patient progressive-rock build, Danny Carey's drums, Justin Chancellor's bass and Adam Jones' guitar coiling around Maynard James Keenan's voice.
It went out as the album's second single in April 2020 and hung around Billboard's mainstream rock chart for twenty weeks, topping out at 15. The usually tight-lipped band even lifted the curtain for this one, releasing a drummer-cam video of Carey working through his parts and a lesson from Jones on the guitar riff in the last verse.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 75 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2020 | 91 |
| 2020 | 11 | 94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO | KILO's Top 30 Kountdown of 2020 | 30 |
| 2020 | 16 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2020 | 98 |
| 2020 | 2 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2020 | 64 |
| 2020 | 25 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2020 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2023) | 66 |
| 2024 | 31 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2024) | 66 |
| 2025 | 26 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2025) | 66 |
| 2026 | 42 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2026) | 66 |
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